Philip Glahn’s research and teaching focus on the histories, theories and practices of art as technology, labor and activism. His writings on the legacies of avant-garde strategies, the politics of drawing, digital media and new social formations, radio and the public sphere, as well as other topics have appeared in publications including Art Journal, Afterimage, The Brooklyn Rail, Parallax, Panorama and PUBLIC, as well as several anthologies.

His research has been supported by several grants including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship...

Mark Shetabi is an artist whose work examines a disjointed and subjective overview of history through concurrent bodies of work in painting, sculpture and installation. Born in New York, as a child he lived in Tehran, Iran for five years, returning to the United States on the eve of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The experience of straddling two cultures often in conflict is an enduring subtext of his work. 

Shetabi has exhibited in venues such as White Columns in New York; the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.; Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, Aidekman Art...

Jessica Vaughn is an artist whose practice encompasses working with discarded and mass-produced materials and images to create artworks that convey complex histories of place, production and use. 
 
Vaughn has had several exhibitions in museums and institutions, including Working Thought, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2022); Lost in America, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Nbk) (2021), Berlin, DE; Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (2018); and Fore Studio Museum in Harlem (2012). In 2021, Vaughn had a...

Anthony Coplan’s work focuses on process, repetition and reflection through visual anecdotes. His work has been exhibited in The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Fleet Week exhibition as well as several other institutions.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, Montclair State University

Carmel Dor (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based artist, educator, and poet. Through paintings, sculptures, and zines, Dor untangles the quality of time in moments where decisions have no known precedent, and one must build their own framework. How does time grow, shrink, or transform during different stages of change? What are the qualities of memory, futurity, and presence throughout a transition? Their work honors the liminal space where experience informs and reforms the self. 

Mary Henderson is a Philadelphia-based visual artist who is a member and former co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the Philadelphia site of a nonprofit network of artist-run spaces. Her work has been shown throughout the United States, including the Delaware Contemporary Museum, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, the Woodmere Museum, Lyons Wier Gallery and Wilding Cran Gallery. She has received grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, the Center for Emerging Artists, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and been awarded residencies at Soaring Gardens, the Jentel Foundation and Hambidge Center (Nena Griffith Distinguished Fellow). Her work has been featured in publications including Harper's magazine, L’Espresso (Italy), New American Paintings, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Art in America. Her paintings can be found in collections including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Muskegon Museum of Art and the West Collection. She is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta.

MFA, University of Pennsylvania
AB, Amherst College

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

Ziui Chen Vance is a Chinese-born, Philadelphia-based painter and interdisciplinary artist. Ziui Chen's paintings reflect her growing up in China, particularly the social hierarchy of girls as little women. Her focus is on the aesthetics of play as characterizations of affection and dominance and catapult the representation of Asian women by Asian women within the Asian Diaspora in Western contemporary art.

MFA, University of Michigan, Stamps School of Art and Design
BA, Tsinghua University, Academy of Arts and Design

Instagram: @ziuichen@yahoo.com

Lauren Whearty is a Philadelphia-based painter, curator and teacher. She is also a co-director of an artist-run curatorial collective, Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY. Whearty's paintings investigate personal identity through memory, lived experience, the familiar objects of everyday life, a love of color and the material processes of painting and drawing which bring them all together. 

MFA, Ohio State University
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

Margolis is the recipient of numerous awards including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, New York State Council on the Arts Grant, Yaddo and Mac Dowell Residency Grants. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at at Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Esso Gallery, New York, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston and included in group exhibitions at the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Chicago, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, University Museum, Santa Barbara, California, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas Texas. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia Museum, Philadelpia, Zimmerli Archives, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, General Mills, Minneapolis, MN, Estee Lauder Corporation, New York among other public collections.

Keith Anthony Morrison is an artist, art educator, curator, art critic and administrator. His native country of Jamaica awarded him the national title, Commander in the Order of Distinction (CD) and also selected him to represent Jamaica at the 2001 Venice Biennale.

His works are included in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art, Monterrey, Mexico; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Jamaica. He has had solo exhibitions in galleries in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington and San Francisco; and in such museums as the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the University of Delaware Museums; and the Alternative Museum, NYC. 

MFA and BFA, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Charles Schmidt has had 26 solo exhibitons of his paintings in America and Europe. His work can be found in over 50 museum and public collections.

MFA, Cranbrook Academy
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University