Gerard Brown is interested in secrets. His creative and scholarly work, which encompasses studio processes such as painting, drawing, printmaking and other forms, examines the use of writing to camouflage and conceal messages in the public sphere.
 
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...

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...

Sharyn O’Mara is an artist and educator whose interdisciplinary works explore the marks of language and the language of marks. Her practice is comprised of drawing, sculpture, digital photography, printmaking and installation.
 
O’Mara’s current work involves reflections on empathy and longing while living in a media-possessed culture that so often feels devoid of intimacy and trust. Deeply connected to her dogs, she works with the residue of their existence—nose prints, shed hair, cremains—taking otherwise overlooked materials and phenomena and giving them significance...

Samantha Simpson makes paintings and drawings that reference cartooning, 14th century woodcuts and the history of modernist painting. Her recent pieces specifically address the uneasy juxtaposition of the everyday and the political.

Simpson’s work has been shown nationally and internationally and has been included in solo and two-person exhibitions at Firecat Projects; Gallery Joe; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center; Tufts University; the Lawndale Art Center in Houston; Slugfest Printmaking Workshop in Austin, Texas and Gallerie Michael Rasche in Fribourg, Germany. Her art has...

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 

Kukuli Velarde is an artist that works in painting and ceramic sculpture. She is interested in projects that encourage students to consciously consider cultural elements from their own historical background (nationality, ethnicity, family, neighborhood, age span), to understand the practice of appropriation, resourcing respectfully elements from each other if needed, while learning the basics of art production. She has been the recipient of a Pew Center for Arts and Heritage Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation USA Fellowship, and a United States Artists, among others.

BFA, Hunter College, City University of New York 

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

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. 

Susan Moore is a painter whose evolving group of portraits combine painting, photography and collage. Each portrait is painted individually and has a particular presence even as they relate to each other, catching a distinct light and texture in their own space. Her works continue to explore the tensions, revelations, intersections and disconnects of individuality and anonymity. 

Moore has been the recipient of numerous grants including the BaderFund Fellowship; four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships; a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Mid-Atlantic NEA. Moore’s work is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; The Pennsylvania Convention Center and the New York Public Library. She had a major retrospective at Denison University in Ohio in 2019, which included 40 years of work and over 60 paintings and drawings.
 
MFA, University of California at UC Davis, 1979
BFA, Indiana University, 1977

Selected Awards
Bader Fund Fellowship (2003)

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1989)

Selected Award
Moore, S. (2019). Susan Moore: A Portrait Retrospective 1980-2019. Denison University 
     Artspace, Newark, OH, February 1–March 8, 2019.

Moore, S. (2014). Sub Rosa and Double Persona. Spazio Galleria Aquadro, Rome, Italy,
     May 13–May 26, 2014.

Image credit: Stephanie Price

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