Katie Simmons
Katie Simmons is an artist, educator, and wildlife biologist from the Appalachian mountains in east Tennessee. She holds baccalaureate degrees in art history, visual art, and wildlife biology and her MA in education and MFA in drawing and fiber art. Katie is an instructor of drawing and fiber art at Colorado State University and Front Range Community College. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally in numerous group and solo shows in the United States, western Europe and South America. Her research on feminist aesthetics, the uncanny, and the commodification of bodies through sex trafficking has also been published and presented at regional and national conferences. Katie has been the recipient of the Charlie and Gwen Hatchette Creativity Award, the Keith Foskin MFA Scholarship, the Boynes Artist Award, the Oak Springs Garden Foundation Residency, Centrum Residency, and a finalist for the Women United Art Prize and Prisma Art Prize. She is also a vocal advocate for the Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Center in Colorado. In her free time, Katie loves ultra trail running, spending time with her family, and watching bad tv with her dog.
Katie’s work has most recently been exhibited in a solo exhibit at Metropolitan Community College’s Gallery of Art and Design and she has upcoming shows this spring and summer at the Sanger Gallery in Key West, Florida, the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colorado and Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Allison Jae Evans
Allison Jae Evans Allison Jae Evans was born in New Haven, CT and currently lives/works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, and an MFA from Hunter College in NYC. Evans’s work has been exhibited at The Journal, 106 Green, and...
Paul Pfeiffer
© Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Joey Trisolini Born in Honolulu in 1966, Paul Pfeiffer grew up between Hawaii and the Philippines before moving to New York in 1990 to attend Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program....
Kathryn Spence
Kathryn Spence has spent years compiling, sorting and transforming culture’s discards into sculptural objects that reveal a human determination on the topic of sufficiency. Fascinated with space, materiality, and objectness, she attends to materials conventionally...
Craig Drennen
Craig Drennen is a painter based in Atlanta and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. His recent solo exhibitions include Merchant, Mistress, and T at Freight+Volume in New York City, Old Athenian & at Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN and First Acts at Atlanta Contemporary Art...
Michael McClard
Michael McClard arrived in New York in 1973 with a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he also won a Peabody Award in Sculpture. He soon made his mark on the art scene as a member of a highly original group of young artists who helped to revive an interest...
Spencer Lai
Spencer Lai is an artist, writer, curator and DJ in Melbourne. They have exhibited extensively at both artist-run and commercial spaces within Melbourne and internationally. They graduated from the Victorian College for the Arts (BFA with Honours) in 2014. Working...
Dianna Settles
Dianna Settles is a Vietnamese-American artist in Atlanta, Georgia who received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2014. Her current work explores moments of joyful stillness amidst the cascading series of crises called modern life, accomplished through...
Jessi Reaves
Portrait by Zach Baker Jessi Reaves (b.1986, Portland, Oregon) earned her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI in 2009. Her practice centers on sculptures that also operate as furniture, rupturing traditional binaries of the functional and the...
Masamitsu Shigeta
Masamitsu Shigeta (b. 1992, Tokyo, Japan) lives and works in Hoboken, NJ. Shigeta primarily paints landscapes depicting urban nature and architecture. Shigeta plays with painting conventions by shifting the medium toward sculpture, either by shaping his canvas or...
Huidi Xiang
Huidi Xiang (b. Chengdu, China) is an artist and researcher currently based in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She holds an MFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University (2021) and a BA in Architecture and Studio Art from Rice University (2018). In her practice, Huidi makes...