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

Shawn Beeks is a teaching artist and entrepreneur making drawings and paintings reflecting his research in crime and psychology. The founder and director of Slapstik Skateboard Art, Shawn is experienced in art logistics, curating, public relations, social media, and mentoring artists of various ages and backgrounds.  

MFA, University of the Arts
BFA, University of Georgia
 

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

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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...

Tyler Kline is an educator, artist, and curator living in Philadelphia. Kline creates in a multidisciplinary mode, structuring work that conceptually braids and blends notions of emergence, somatics, affect theory, generative media, and techniques from antiquity. Kline is a member of Pink Noise Projects in Philadelphia, and has an exhibition history that includes Flux Factory in Queens, The Painting Center in NYC, the ICA Philadelphia’s Open Video Call, and works featured in New American Paintings (Issue 81).

MFA, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
BA and BFA, Anthropology and Sculpture, Portland State University

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

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

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

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...

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