gerard brown teaches in Foundations and Painting. He also teaches Graduate Seminar in Teaching in Higher Education.
 
As a writer, Brown has contributed essays to Ceramics: Art & Perception, Philadelphia Weekly and Juxtapoz, among other magazines. He is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Visual Art Criticism. He has organized exhibits for the Levy Gallery at Moore College of Art & Design, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, The Philadelphia Art Alliance and other galleries. His drawings have been shown at Gallery Joe...

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Odili Donald Odita is an abstract painter exploring color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.
 
In recent years, Odita was commissioned to paint several large-scale wall installations including Newark Museum (2017); Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (2015); Mural Arts Philadelphia (2016); Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (2015); Savannah College of Art and Design (2012) and the United States Mission to the United Nations, New York (2011).
 
Odita has had several...

Samantha Simpson is an artist who makes interactive VR, books and work on paper. She has a long history of painting on paper but is now making immersive interactive painted worlds in VR. Her work asks questions about empathy, artmaking and politics within the frame of a theatrical vision of the natural world.

Simpson’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, and has been included in solo and two-person exhibitions at  the Rosewood Art Gallery, Firehouse Art Center, Firecat Projects; Gallery Joe; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center; Tufts University; the Lawndale...

Miriam Angeles Arrey is an artist who engages merged processes of painting and resist dye to explore how memory and material traces intersect over time. Their work links marks made by Earth’s constant shifting on rigid, everyday structures to the transmission of intergenerational stories and meaning.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

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

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

Samantha Nye is a painter, and video and installation artist currently living in Philadelphia. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in filmmaking and had a solo booth of paintings at the Armory Fair that same year. Her work is in the collections of The Arnhem Museum in the Netherlands and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has had several international large-scale video installations and paintings included in shows in London, Korea, and several cities in The Netherlands, and has had solo shows at Candice Madey Gallery and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

MFA 2018, Columbia University

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

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

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