Simona Josan is an immigrant artist whose research interests concern ideas of displacement and memory. Her work often deals with the creation and fetishism of objects that are stand-ins for past experiences and function as material storytelling. She is interested in the role that nostalgia plays in creating a present identity.

Currently, Josan is working on a series of drawings that attempt to document her memories of having lived in two seemingly incongruous spaces: the concrete apartment buildings of pre-1989 communist Romania and the remote rural areas of her grandparents’...

Buy Shaver is a multi-disciplinary, installation-based artist with a visual arts background that includes Eastern and Western painting, graphic design, illustration and exhibition design. 

Shaver primarily works site-specifically, often painting directly on walls to create both temporal and commissioned art. His work floats between both abstract compositions and text-based installations that appear simple and seemingly familiar, yet the content and context allow for multiple interpretations, allowing his work to be simultaneously direct yet oddly illusive.

Shaver...

Jennifer Zarro teaches a General Education race and diversity course, which draws on historic and contemporary art of the Americas. Her dissertation research focused on prints, maps and the culture of geography in late 18th century Philadelphia. A lifelong resident of this city, Jennifer is an avid fan of Philadelphia art and historic bookbinding. She is currently working on a research project about a 19th century Irish immigrant who arrived in Philadelphia in the early 1820s.
 
PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007
MA, Temple University, 1999

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Shawn Beeks is a Philadelphia-based narrative artist whose ink drawings and oil paintings depict the worst of times in the best light. His interests in human behavior, storytelling and cats have produced comic books, fine art exhibitions and a skateboard company founded in 1996.

MFA, University of the Arts
BFA, University of Georgia
 

Blake Bradford is a Philadelphia-based writer, educator and cultural advocate. His work addresses race, access, inclusion and how public institutions engage and serve the public. Recent publications and presentations include 2020’s “Just Being,” co-authored with Dr. Risham Majeed for Art Journal Open; “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now: African American Artists in Philadelphia since 1940” published in the 2019 Routledge Companion to African American Art History, and “Who’s Not in the Picture,” presented by Frick Collection in 2019.

MA, University of Texas at Austin
BA, Williams College 

Amanda D'Amico is a book artist who has been collected and exhibited nationally. She serves on the boards of the Philadelphia Center for the Book and The Soapbox: Community Print Shop & Zine Library. She is the vice co-chair of events for the College Book Art Association and is an artist member of the Impractical Laborers in Service of the Speculative Arts.

MFA, University of the Arts
BA, Sarah Lawrence College

Kathleen Eastwood is a Philadelpiha-based artist who makes paintings, drawings and installations that investigate intergenerational memory.

MFA, The San Francisco Art Institute
BFA, University of the Arts

Hiroe Hanazono is a Philadelphia-based ceramic artist whose minimal aesthetic designs enrich the dining experience. Her obsession with food drives her to investigate how people dine and influences the work she creates to become pedestals for food.

MFA, Ohio University
BA, California State University Hayward

Alicia Link’s work offers a type of expanded painting that manifests itself across disciplines. Using fantasy and humor to explore the relationship between loss, love and the body, she often lingers in a space that draws attention to the invisibility of trauma.

MFA, University of Texas at Austin
BFA, Boston University

Yvonne Lung is an Asian-American interdisciplinary artist with work ranging from sculpture, performance and video to social practice. Her work is about social change through interaction, learning what we have in common by using her heritage as a vehicle to address shared experiences despite cultural differences.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
BFA, Texas Tech University

MFA, University of Pennsylvania
BFA, Moore College of Art & Design