@sonyabergstudio

In her current work, Sonya Berg explores the relational weight of portraiture, using painting, photography, and collage techniques to create tension between realistic depth and superficial abstraction in the rendering of natural imagery. Her paintings become icons of sorts, challenging the media-laden consumer culture of images by elevating the ordinary and casual to the vulnerable and valuable. Born in Raleigh, NC and raised in suburban Philadelphia, Sonya received her MFA in painting from The University of Texas at Austin in 2010. She has held residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson VT. She currently teaches at St. Edward’s University in Austin.

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@linearlinnea

Linnéa Gabriella Spransy’s paintings, drawings and installations are generated using systems and rules which are distillations of her interest in emergent theory, quantum mechanics, theology and chaos theory. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally at numerous academic institutions including Princeton University, both commercial and non-profit galleries such as White Flag in St. Louis and Rhona Hoffman Gallery and is featured in numerous corporate collections. Her collaborative work and performances have taken place in NYC, London, and in Dundee, Scotland.

Having begun her education in a one-room schoolhouse, she finished it at Yale University, earning her MFA in 2001. At this juncture, her curiosity about science, philosophy and ultimate questions came to the fore, opening wide unexpected territory that she has been exploring ever since.

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@michael_gac_levin

Levin’s paintings aim at the mystery and the intensity of childhood. At the core, Levin’s work is a lighthearted, diaristic drawing practice guided by repetition and humor. Riding a wobbly line down into memory, the artist finds images that speak to our predicaments in the present and the uncertainty of the future. As they feed into paintings, the drawings take on color, bringing associations to nostalgia, the nocturnal, and the fantastical. Reflective, dreamlike compositions offer views of a world in which everything is animate and purposeful. A world where anything might suddenly rise to speak, stalk or play. A sense of archaic monumentality pervades the images, but feels as soft and yielding as a pillow fort or a loaf of bread.

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@adapootter

Wright Potter’s installations re-stage the material qualities of photography using reflective mylar and mirrors to capture and play with light, calling up a filmic process. The artist employs transparent and translucent materials, like acetate and mylar, to mimic analog film while invoking a feeling of hi-tech ephemerality. The prints are digitally altered, illuminated and flipped on their axis to muddle recognition, exploring the difference between formal surfaces and physical or metaphorical grounding.

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@andrewhendrixsonstudio

Andrew Hendrixson is an artist, writer, and currently a doctoral student at Duke University where he was named the Bowden Scholar and where he works at the intersection of the arts, theology, and philosophy. He's been an artist-in-residence at the Whale and Star Studio, the Chautauqua Institute, the University of Dayton, the Springfield Museum of Art, and the Byrdcliffe Colony. His artwork and writing can be found in publications including New American Paintings, the Princeton Theological Review, Image, Yale Letters, and an essay of his was included in the anthology Best American Essays 2021. Andrew has worked and made art alongside incarcerated youth for the project Not Yet Fallen, traveled the country for an experimental work called The House Shows Project in which he held conversations about the arts in living rooms from LA to NYC, and is currently working with the City of Columbus, Ohio on a 50' mosaic mural. Andrew holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Florida and an MA in Philosophy, Theology, & the Arts from Yale University. He lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife, Lindsey, and their baby girl, Cora Eden.

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@jaywalkerstudio

Philadelphia-based Jay Walker is a multi-disciplinary, creating tape installations, mixed media painting/drawings, and carved sculptures. Jay’s work involves observing and developing the dynamics of patterns and morphing them into his own designs. His work is regularly site-specific, allowing room for inspiration from the space itself, as it interacts with and stirs his artistic vision. Jay finds freedom in starting with one idea, initially drawing from color, form, and varied aesthetic choices, allowing the subject matter to emerge. He taps into the identity of culture, incorporating his fascination with archetypes and exploring who they are, why they exist, and what they embody.

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@meglipke

Meg Lipke was born in 1969 in Portland, Oregon and was raised in Burlington, Vermont and Cheshire, England. She received her MFA from Cornell University and has taught at The University of Northern Iowa, Cornell University, and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been reviewed in Art in America, the Village Voice, the New York Times and many online publications. She lives and works in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

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@parentpueblo

Melina Gac Levin, MSEd is the founder of Pueblo, a learning platform that equips multicultural parents with the skills and information they need to parent confidently. Pueblo offers culturally sustaining online classes and consultations about child development. Melina has over a decade of experience supporting children, families and educators. She teaches graduate courses in child development at Bank Street College of Education, from which she holds dual masters degrees in Infant and Family Development, Early Childhood General and Special Education, and Early Intervention. Her undergraduate degree is from Columbia University, where she studied visual arts, Latino studies, and dance. Melina presents regularly at professional conferences including at Bank Street's Infancy Institute, the Language Series, and the NYSAIS Diversity and Equity in Curriculum Conference. She is a partner in Premier Pediatrics' First Month Project. Her writing can be found on her Substack, Motherly, The EveryMom, and Cup of Jo among other publications.

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