Mark Thomas Gibson is an artist who uses modes of caricature, pop, fantasy and narrative to reflect on current American history. The work most often takes the form of drawing, painting and books.

As a graduate student at Yale University, Gibson was the recipient of the Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Award in 2013. In 2016, Gibson co-curated the exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo, which has traveled from Yale to the International Print Center New York (IPCNY), University of South Florida and Wesleyan University. The exhibition was also reviewed by The...

Dona Nelson is an influential American painter and educator best known for immersive, gestural abstract works employing unorthodox materials, processes and formats to disrupt conventional ideas of painting and viewership. She has worked at Tyler School of Art and Architecture since 1991. 

Nelson has had twenty solo exhibitions of her work, primarily in New York City. In 2014, she was included in the Whitney Biennial. In 2018, she had a large survey show of her paintings at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, which was comprised of thirty large...

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 Smithsonian National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.; Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia,...

Julia Clift is a Philadelphia-based artist working primarily in painting and drawing. Her recent work uses a language between abstraction and representation to discuss ideas of contemporary American space and mediated perceptions of reality. As a teacher, Julia emphasizes both traditional drawing and painting skills and experimentation. She aims to expand her students' technical tool belts while empowering them to take creative risks.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, Washington University in St. Louis

Kati Gegenheimer is a Philadelphia-based artist working primarily in painting and drawing. Her paintings serve as an ongoing visual diary exploring ideas around feminism, emotional labor and 'women's work' through symbolism, landscape and language. She has a strong interest in researching decorative and folk arts as they relate to painting, installation, heritage and domestic environments. 

MFA Yale University School of Art
BFA Tyler School of Art

Stuart Lorimer is a Scottish-born, New York-based painter and curator. Stuart makes narrative paintings that employ a realism informed by observation and fiction. He paints figures often posed in action and tinged with allegory—or otherwise, they are at rest and caught in seeming existential worry. These characters present unclear psychologies and exist within graphic environs that conjure municipal and leisure spaces.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee

Bianca Schreiber creates works on paper and mixed media that evoke fragmented, haunted narratives.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BA, Columbia University

Riley Strom is a painter and educator based in Philadelphia. In her painting, she investigates the relationship between image and lived experience by means of figuration and abstraction. She co-directed the artist-run gallery 99 Cent Plus Gallery in Brooklyn, NY from 2013–2016.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, Sarah Lawrence College 

Kyle Thurman is a New York-based artist whose multifaceted practice weaves together both diaristic and journalistic perspectives. By employing primarily drawing and painting, Thurman’s work often considers subjective relationships to the distribution, digestion and aging process of analog photography and digital imagery.

MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College
Guest student, Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
BA, Columbia University

Dave Walsh makes large-scale paintings that investigate American mythologies of nature in national parks and recreation spaces. He explores how history and culture have informed perceptions of landscape over time in the United States; utilizing fieldwork, research and memory to recreate environments using multiple perspectives.

MFA, Yale School of Art
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

Ricardo Zapata makes interdisciplinary work in painting, drawing and sculpture concerned with notions of power struggle, displacement, transgression and anxiety. He is a member of Pink Noise Projects, a collectively-run project space in Philadelphia.

MFA, University of Pennsylvania
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art

Professor Holsing’s work has been included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts among others.  Her paintings and work on paper have been shown at MIT, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Drawing Center, and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, as well as, galleries in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, and Philadelphia.  Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer and many online publications, such as, the Huffington Post and the Artblog.  Professor Holsing has received two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants, a National Endowment, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation grant, and recently an Independence Foundation grant. 

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