Ren Anan (b. 1999) is a traditional and digital sculptor. He is a Japanese-European artist born in São Paulo, Brazil, but currently resides and works in Sarasota, FL. He is currently a BFA Fine Arts Senior at Ringling College of Art & Design, class of 2023. Ren has attended the Pilchuk Glass School Summer Residency (Stanwood, WA, 2022). He was part of the Antithesis, Rán, Pot-Pourri, and Memoir group exhibitions (Sarasota, FL, 2022-2023) through Ringling College of Art & Design. To quote Ren about his work: “What drives me to create my art is how I can explore, reflect upon, and finally translate visually my life’s experiences and my personal identity into a piece, something tangible.”

Clay is one of the oldest known art forms dating back to 14000 BC. It intrigues me to think that I have an inherent connection with prehistoric humans. The evolutionary process of survival allowed them to discover the useful properties of clay. Several years ago, the first time that my hands interacted with clay I felt the connection to mother nature. As I construct new organic pieces, the creative process guides not only the physical sense of touch but my spiritual journey also. As I sit in silence listening to the wheel spin a sense of euphoria takes over. I am at the precipice of creating something that never existed before. At the inception of each piece logic and composition are replaced by pure expression. As an artist, I hope that my work speaks to you through its color, texture, and form.

Katia Edquist is a 24 yr old artist, primarily working with glass and metals. She strives for progress over perfection, learning something new every day. Last fall, she made the decision to return to school and is currently gaining new skills through the scientific glass program at Salem Community College NJ. In addition to attending SCC, Katia currently works for Salem Community College teaching glassblowing workshops to the public. Katia craves being hands-on with whatever material she works with and has an interest in studio management as well. Her inspirations stem from the natural world around us, emotions evoked deep within us, and the energy that connects us all.

Hannah McCasland is an artist originally from northern New York. She completed her BFA at SUNY Plattsburgh and is currently going into her last year in a Master of Fine Arts program at The Ohio State University. She currently resides in Columbus, Ohio. Her work explores themes of disaster, bizarre religiosity, duality of tenderness and terror and how these things relate to past and future objects and technologies. 

Olivia Tawzer is an artist living in Chattanooga, TN. Her work addresses the topics of southernness, conflict, gender, and grief. With painting and sculpture being her main mediums, she often draws from family stories or personal experiences to create her narratives. Olivia graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the spring of 2021 with a BFA in Painting and Drawing. She is a contributor for Mineral House Media, a platform that offers digital residencies, conducts interviews, and invites residents to participate in an annual group show. She works as a licensed tattoo artist in downtown Chattanooga where she runs Grief Garden Tattoo Project, which aims to create a space to talk about loss and leave participants with a portable personal memorial.

Talia Tax is a New Haven-based artist originally from Arizona. Their work focuses on gender, mental health, and human-nature interactions and how our minds respond to transformation, uncertainty, and illusion. In addition, Talia has a strong background in casting and foundry work and helped to design, build, and run an iron-casting furnace in the NCCCIAP 2023 Student Cupola Contest.  They are currently a student in their third year of study pursuing a degree in Computing and the Arts (B.A.) and a Spanish Language certificate at Yale University. Talia’s work has been featured in the 2023 NCCCIAP Juried Exhibition, as well as exhibitions at Yale including If and When (Advanced Sculpture 2023), Animation Night 2023, and the Visual Arts Collective Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Exhibition.

Summer Tomes (American, b. 1999) is an artist, curator, and educator originally from Memphis TN, but is currently working in Chattanooga TN. She is the co-founder of Tangerine Gallery and a part of Wavelength Space’s curatorial collective. Her work focuses on the exploration of various materials while maintaining similar imagery as a way to tie in personal narrative and concepts of attachment theory. As a multidisciplinary artist, process and experimentation are the driving forces in Tomes’ studio. Her curatorial practice serves as a way to meet artists from all stages of their careers and allows for unexpected connections. Currently, Tomes’ is working as a Montessori preschool teacher in downtown Chattanooga and will pursue her Montessori certification this fall. This experience has proven that compassion and levity are essential and she reflects this ideology in her work. Tomes graduated with her BFA in painting and drawing from UTC in 2021. She was most recently shown at Femme Gallery in Nashville, TN, in a show titled “Daffodils and Onions:” a two-person show with Kirby Miles displaying collaborative work made amongst the two over the course of several months.

Jamie Weinfurter earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with an emphasis in 3D in 2018. She has participated in numerous group shows across the Midwest; had sculptures publicly exhibited in Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota; and has created outdoor sculpture at Josephine Sculpture Park, Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum, and Franconia Sculpture Park in 2019. Jamie installed public sculptures across Minnesota in 2020, and she completed an artist fellowship at NE SCULPTURE | Gallery Factory that summer, which progressed to Program Assistant in 2021. She also installed public sculptures in Rochester, Bemidji, Delano, and Hutchinson Minnesota in 2021 and again installed sculptures in 2022 in Delano and Park Rapids. She has installed permanent outdoor sculpture in Rochester, MN in 2021 and Stevens Point, WI in 2021 and 2022, as well as being featured for the first time in Norfolk, NE. Jamie received a GSS/Graduate College Research Grant for the Arts in 2022 for the Welcome Home project that will be exhibiting in Lafayette, Colorado in 2023-2024. Jamie has received an MA degree from the University of Iowa and has been accepted into the MFA program for Sculpture & Intermedia from 2023-2024.

Lauren Aria (she/they) is a glass artist and sculptor currently based in Madison, WI. Her work explores relationships of material codependency between the corporeal and synthetic, violating boundaries between the interiority and exteriority of the body. Lauren graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022 and received the 2022 Windgate-Lamar Fellowship Award from the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC. Currently, she works as a scientific glassblowing apprentice under Tracy Drier within the UW Chemistry Department and creates artwork as a special student at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

Georgia Reidy (b. 1998) is a sculptor originally from San Diego, CA now residing in Brooklyn, NY. She attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie and currently teaches art at a high school in Manhattan. Georgia is also a ceramics student of the Art Students League of New York. While she remains interested in different sectors of art, her primary focus is hand-building with clay. Her toughened sculptures incorporate fantastical and romantic techniques along with whimsical narratives and religious themes. She gives nods to Baroque styles and its motif of dramatization and mythology. In her work, she aims to encompass enchanting challenges of color, context, and subject matter. Georgia credits the human experience and introspective reflection as the true impetus of her work.

Chloé Arrouy’s (France, 1993) art practice deals with the concepts of torture and magic in the popular European Medieval culture, which she uses as tools to investigate – formally and idiosyncratically – existence, sexuality and culture. Her material of choice is metal, which she rusts, burns and overworks to create ominous and fascinating objects, that often recall ritual or torture tools. She often juxtaposes her sculptures to material-based abstract paintings, installatively expanding the language of her mysterious works in metal. Arrouy holds a MFA from ERG in Brussels and has exhibited (among others) at Alice Gallery (Brussels, 2019), Jakob Kroon Gallery (Worthing, 2019) and at Biennale de Belgique (Gand, 2019). Arrouy lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

Katherine Hofmann was born in Miami, Florida, in 2000 and attended the Rhode Island School of Design [RISD], earning her BFA in Painting. She works as a \ mixed media water-colorist who has been working in the sculptural mediums of kiln-cast glass and ceramics and views her sculptural work as extensions of her paintings. Driving her material process of finding, burying, excavating, vitrifying, tanging, and detangling is her need to unearth intangible memories expanding through painting and sculpture. Katherine’s work has been included in group exhibitions such as Water Seeks the Lowest Ground at the Gelman Gallery, Go Thither at the Gelman Gallery, Field Works at the Red Eye Gallery, Eco-Dyed at the Dyehouse 2022, and Identity as Context Memory as Content at Brown Universities Granoff Center 2022.

Hannah Klein is a BSVA Student at SUNY Purchase in New York. Hannah is a sculptor with a background in metalwork, mold making, and soft sculpture. Hannah works as a Metal Shop assistant at SUNY Purchase and as a Hard Return Performer at the Neuberger Museum. Hannah has also worked as a Camp Art Director at Bedford Township.

Noah Marlowe (b. 1998) is a designer and maker currently based out of Brooklyn, NY. Noah received his BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the Spring of 2021. It was in Chattanooga, that Noah began working for local design studio, Widgets & Stone, where he continues to work today from his residence in New York. During his two years at the Widgets studio, Noah has participated in commercial design and branding projects for a variety of local hospitality groups, non-profits, and technology industries.

It's been at the Widgets studio where Noah’s love for typography, print, and digital practices has continued to thrive and grow. Noah’s personal practice often utilizes and embraces the language of design through the incorporation of written language, print practices, and digital collage. As a digital native, much of his inspiration stems from the absurdities of online culture, nostalgia, and the juxtapositions between digital and analog mediums.

Larkin Cook is an artist based in Chattanooga, TN working in painting, sculpture, and performance. In 2021, she earned a BFA in painting and drawing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Currently, she is a contributor for Mineral House Media, a curatorial collective and digital residency that highlights artists living and working in the Southeast. Her recent exhibitions include G.R.I.T.S at Bells Gallery in Dothan, AL and High Maintenance at Tchotchke Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.