Jaime Alvarez is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, originally born and raised in Puerto Rico. His work varies from exploring the relationships of spaces and objects and how they describe people, installations which tell stories of desire and existential being, to documenting the ever changing landscape in the world. His work has been internationally exhibited in various galleries and museums. 

Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas are an artist duo who currently live in a small town in Missouri. They have lived in 7 countries, and have shown internationally including at the Athens Biennale, Bergen Assembly Triennial, Turku Biennial, Steirischer Herbst, Fundação de Serralves, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Kunsthall Aarhus, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, ICC Tokyo; Taipei Fine Art Museum, Van Abbemuseum, Centre George Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Nikolaj Kunsthal, and Artpace, among many others. 

Ruth Scott Blackson has been a practicing artist for over 20 years. In 2006 and 2009 she was successful in obtaining an English Arts Council award for projects, which culminated in residencies and exhibitions hosted in Russia and France. In 2009 her work was included in the Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory, New Museum, PHAIDON.  In 2015 her work was selected for the exhibition series at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, while in the latter part of 2013 she had her first solo show in Old City, Philadelphia. Most recently she showed a selection of the paper weavings at ‘The Art Grind’ in Danville, PA, while in 2021 she was an Artist in Residence at the Fitler Club in Philadelphia as part of Collection 2.0. She relocated to Philadelphia, USA in 2011 from the UK. While not in her art studio and running around after her two kids in South Philly , Ruth can be found at The Book Restorer, her book restoration and binding company.  

Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher whose work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Recent exhibitions include the Penumbra Foundation (NY), the Center for Photography at Woodstock (NY), and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (CA). Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA. Buchman holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach. 

Rae Burns is an artist and educator from Philadelphia, PA. Growing up with artists, she was encouraged to try out different mediums and form a daily practice of creating. She has always used her art as a wellness practice and often use tactile materials like silk floss on paper to create work that is meant to be touched and held.  

Micah Danges is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work explores the unpredictability and material possibilities of photography. A graduate of Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Danges has exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the James A. Michener Art Museum, The Print Center, Vox Populi, and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, among others. He is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Wind Challenge Grant from Fleisher Art Memorial, and a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. 

Jeremy Drummond is an artist, filmmaker, field recorder, and film/video programmer who teaches experimental film, video art, and alternative media at the University of Richmond. Rooted in single-channel film and video, Drummond's work is positioned between documentary and experimental media and extends across photography, sound, and installation. At the core of his practice is interdisciplinary research and a commitment to sustained, first-person fieldwork that explores cultural, historical, and socio-political relationships between people and place. 

Amze Emmons is a Philadelphia-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a background in drawing and printmaking. Emmons received a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. He has held solo exhibitions in, Austin, Berlin, Boston, Brooklyn, Madrid, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, among other locations. His work has been in group exhibitions in innovative commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums. He has received numerous awards including a Fellowship in the Arts from the Independence Foundation; an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council; and Fellowships at MacDowell. His work has received critical attention in Art in Print magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, New American Paintings, as well as many other publications. He is currently a Professor and Printmaking Program Head at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia. 

Edgar Endress is a George Mason University associated professor teaching new media and public art. Born in Chile, he has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, most recently in Museum of Contemporary art (Macba), Barcelona Spain. In 2007, in association with Provisions, he initiated the Floating Lab Collective, a team of interdisciplinary artists who deploy innovative art projects in collaboration with urban communities. His work focuses on syncretism in the Andes, displacement in the Caribbean, and mobile art-making practices. He received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Creative Capital Fund. 

Daniel Fischer was born in 1977. He received a BFA in 1999 from Alfred University. He has been featured in many group exhibitions, including Process and Possibility: Contemporary Drawings at the MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2003); Matisse and Beyond: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2008); Lifelike, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (2013); and Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2022). Fischer currently lives and works in New York, NY. 

Allison Frick is a Philadelphia based textile artist working primarily in denim.  Holding a BFA in Textile Design from Moore College of Art and Design and an MLS from Drexel University, Allison’s work is influenced by the quilters of Gee’s Bend.  Each work shows small moments of wear and use in the textiles, and serves as a way to grant new life to once precious objects that would otherwise be destined for the landfill. When she is not trying to recreate the feeling of sunlight on water with denim, she is teaching small children how to make art with lasers.   

Jody Graff is a multimedia visual artist living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also an Associate Professor in the Graphic Design program in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. She creates a range of work that is inspired by joy, curiosity and awe of nature. It is a synthesis of art, design, environmental science, culture and craft.

Jacob C Hammes (born 1982 Sigourney, Iowa) is an Interdisciplinary artist, arts organizer, and educator based in Philadelphia. Working primarily in sculpture, drawing, and sound, Hammes’ work explores themes of late capitalist anxieties and absurdities.. Recently he has moved into comedy and joke writing with his 2020 book entitled “101 Jokes About the Working Class,” a collection of (mostly) Leftist jokes and illustrations, and ‘The Grand Ballroom of Doom” a biweekly comic strip depicting the brutality of late stage capitalism as absurdist comedy.  He is the director and curator of Pilot+Projects, an artist-run exhibition space in Philadelphia, and teaches at Tyler School of Art, Moore College of Art and Design,  and University of the Arts. Hammes holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Tyler School of Art.  Hammes has shown at spaces such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Liberty Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University, The Hills Aesthetic Center, Temple Contemporary, The Hyde Park Art Center, the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in Auckland, Information Space, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.   

The Philadelphia-based artists Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib have been collaborators since 2008. They are recipients of several honored awards including a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pew Fellowships in the Arts and Fellowships from CFEVA and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Their work has been widely exhibited both domestically and abroad at venues including, Fondazione MAXXI (Rome), New Media Gallery (Vancouver), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), UCLA Hammer Museum, PS1/MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Arizona State University Art Museum. They have been artists-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Banff Centre, Marble House Project and the Millay Colony for Arts. Matthew Suib is co-founder of Greenhouse Media and Nadia Hironaka serves as a professor of film and video and studio arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Hironaka & Suib are represented by Locks Gallery. The couple, along with their daughter and two cats reside in South Philly. 

Sean K. Irwin is a Philadelphia-based artist. He has exhibited widely throughout the Northeast. Originally from Western New York, Sean received his BA from SUNY Plattsburgh and an MFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University. He moved to Philadelphia in 2004 and is the owner/operator of Irwin Art Frames. He lives with his wife Laura Ledbetter, their daughter Evi, and two cats. 

Duwenavue Santé Johnson is an artist based in Philadelphia. She has studied hand embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework, Ecole Lesage, and Hang Sang Soo, and holds a BA in Communication from Southern New Hampshire University. Recent exhibitions include A.I.R., 201@105 and 616 Gallery in New York, NY, and Spring Box Gallery, Ubuntu, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Cherry St Pier in Philadelphia, PA. She is a grant recipient of the Bartol Foundation, Black Music City, the Mural Arts Black Artist Fellowship, and will participate in the U.S. semiquincentennial exhibition Radical Americana at The Philadelphia Historical Society in partnership with the Winterthur Museum in 2026. Johnson is a member of the small prestigious team of artisans responsible for hand embroidering the U.S. Presidential and Vice-Presidential flags. 

James Johnson was born in Syracuse, New York. His art encompasses installation, sculpture, and live activity and makes reference to photography and architecture. He addresses issues surrounding representation, economics, power, formal concerns, and photographic mimesis. He is influenced by abstract art, conceptual art, minimalism, and renaissance painting. His studio is in Philadelphia where he teaches in the Photography and Foundation programs at Moore College of Art and Design. 

Gabriel Martinez, a Cuban-American visual artist originally from Miami, Florida, works largely with photography, performance and installation. Martinez was a Pew Fellowship in the Arts recipient in 2001 and was granted a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2003. He has received two Individual Artists Grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has also participated in several national artist residencies and artist-in-residence programs including: The Rosenbach Museum and Library, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, both in Philadelphia; Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida; Arcadia Summer Arts Program, Maine; MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire; and Yaddo, New York. 

Hayato Matsushita is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose work explores the intersections of symbolism, history, and transformation. A graduate of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, he engages with esoteric traditions, sacred geometry, and American symbolism to reveal hidden systems of meaning. From geometric city planning to the mystical proportions of the American flag, Matsushita investigates how grids, both visible and invisible, structure our cultural and spiritual lives and serve as the foundation of our identity. 

Kara Ja'Nice Mshinda (b. 1978, Columbus, Ohio) is a visual artist whose photo-based works explore identity, memory, and embodiment in public spaces through collage, documentary photography, and alternative photo processes. Mshinda holds an MA in Anthropology with a specialization in Visual Communication from Temple University (2007) and a BA with Honors in Interdisciplinary Anthropology from The University of Akron (2002). She currently serves as Network Co-Director at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, Principal Collaborator at GrioXArts studio at Cherry Street Pier, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Recent solo exhibitions include "Instant Artifacts" at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (2023) and "All Hands Hold" at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Center (2022). Her work has been shown internationally at venues including Schau Fenster in Berlin, Mana Contemporary in Chicago, and LaNao Galería in Mexico City. In 2023, she received the Wind Challenge Exhibition Series award from Fleisher Art Memorial. Mshinda continues to explore methods in documentary photography and visual ethnography, bridging social science with art practice. 

Erin Murray earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has since exhibited widely in cities across the country, recently at Peep Projects (Philadelphia, PA), Hexum Gallery (Montpelier, VT), Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), HOLDING Contemporary (Portland, OR), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA) and Harpy Gallery (Rutherford, NJ). Awards and honors include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2018), Drawing Center Viewing Program participation (2020/21), the West Collects acquisition prize (2012), the Fleisher Wind Challenge Exhibition Grant (2012) and a Center for Emerging Visual Artists fellowship (2002-04). Her work has been featured in Dovetail Magazine, New American Paintings and the Drawing Stall Book. From 2012-17 she was a member of the artist-run collective Vox Populi in Philadelphia, where she lives and works with her partner and two young sons.  

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. 

Sharilyn Neidhardt is a Brooklyn-based visual artist. She blends her experiences as a photojournalist and as a paintmaker into her work depicting experiences of urban life. She was a core member of glowlab and created the Human Scale Chess Game which was played in several North American cities. With artist Sal Randolph, Ms Neidhardt toured in the musical act Weapons of Mass Destruction, for which she composed several songs. Sharilyn is a co-founder of the artists' community trans-cen-der, which meets monthly in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared on Drawing New York and ArtSpiel. She’s an avid cyclist, loves midnight movies, and speaks only a little German. 

Violet Oakley (1874 -1961) was a painter, muralist, illustrator, portraitist, architectural and industrial designer, writer, civic leader, and advocate for world peace.   

Originally from Harlem, NY, Makeba “KEEBS” Rainey is a self-taught digital collage artist most known for her portraits of influential diasporic Africans. After 10 years of living and working in Philly, KEEBS moved to The Gambia, West Africa, to start the experimental greenhouse farm: Hilol Gardens (@fka.irieland). 

Anne Schaefer’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University and a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Schaefer is a former print fellow at the Fabric Workshop and Museum and has been a college-level art educator for the last 15 years. She has been a member of a number of artist collectives such as Vox Populi as well as Tiger Strikes Asteroid, where she served as director from 2011-2013. She lives and works in upstate New York.

Chuck Schmidt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1939. He received a BFA in painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1960 and an MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1967. He was professor of Drawing and Painting at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. Schmidt has done several paintings for NASA relating to the artist's eye-witness images of the space shuttle launch of Columbia (STS-5). One of his paintings eulogizing the space shuttle tragedy hangs in the Brumidi Corridor of the United States Capitol. 

Mary Smull lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She merges object and action in a practice centered around textile processes to expose the diversity of attitudes toward labor and the complex relationships surrounding art and craft, amateur and professional, producers and consumers. Smull’s work has been exhibited locally at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Temple Contemporary, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, and nationally at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Public Fiction Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Cranbrook Museum of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Racine Art Museum in Racine, WI, and the Craft Alliance, in St. Louis, MO. She holds a BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. 

Chad States photographic practice sits between dream and reality, interiority and exteriority, private and public,and the abject and sublime. Through the use of narrative, light and color, States creates works that hold these contradictions together into a harmonious whole.  States holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and a BA from Evergreen State College. He has been included in exhibitions at ClampArt, New York NY; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR; Randall Scott Gallery, Brooklyn NY; Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA; LVL3, Chicago IL. 

Sarah Steinwachs is Philadelphia based artist, and an Associate Professor at Drexel University. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, and her MFA from Yale University School of Art. Steinwachs' work of cut-paper installations has been exhibited Nationally and Internationally including Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Her upcoming sabbatical project (2025–26) will explore parallels between the decorative geometry of Islamic architecture and the geometric structures used to map dark and normal matter in the universe. She plans on making work from these discoveries.  

Brent Wahl's photography, installation and time-based work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and institutions in the U.S. and Europe, including multiple solo exhibitions at Vox Populi (Philadelphia) and group exhibitions at the Esther Kline Gallery (Philadelphia), Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia), The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Tate Modern (London), Oblong Gallery (London), #Rank Miami (Miami), X-Initative (NY), Space (Portland, MA), University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Dumbo Art Center (Brooklyn), Repetti Gallery (NY), Slought Foundation (Philadelphia), Publico (Cincinnati, OH), Wiess Tech House (Philadelphia), Sackler Center Gallery, BMCA (Boulder, CO), Pratt Manhattan (NY), and New York University (NY). In 2012 his work was featured in Arcadia University's ‘A Closer Look 8' and also commissioned by Grizzly Grizzly and Tiger Strikes Asteroid for their Community Supported Arts program. In 2014, Wahl was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. 

Hannah and Joyce Wallace.  Hannah was born in Lewisville, Texas, to Joyce & Leonard Wallace and raised in Easton, Pennsylvania. She attended Temple University in Philadelphia to earn a BA in African American Studies and minor in Sociology in 2016. She then earned an MA in Museum Education from the University of the Arts in 2018. Hannah has since worked throughout multiple Philadelphia museums as an educator & administrator. Currently, she works as Museum Manager to the Paul Robeson House and Museum in West Philadelphia. Hannah began to weave rugs with her mother around the time her grandmother passed in 2015. Her grandmother, Mary Jane Johnson, taught her mother, Joyce, how to weave Joyce (Johnson) Wallace was born in Roseau, Minnesota. Joyce grew up in Northern Minnesota. Since 2001, Joyce has worked at Lafayette College in Easton, PA in the Football Office & the Williams Center for the Arts. 

Andrea “Philly” Walls is a multidisciplinary artist, informed and inspired by the writers and visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement. She is among the first cohort of artists to be designated as Philadelphia Cultural Treasures and is serving in her third year as Artist in Residence at Drexel University’s, Writers Room. She is pleased that her writing, scholarship, and visual art have been supported by organizations she admires, including the Leeway Foundation, VONA/Voices Workshops for Writers of Color; Black Public Media/MIT Open Documentary Lab, Hedgebrook Residencies for Women Authoring Change; The Colored Girls Museum; Writers Room at Drexel University; The Studio Museum of Harlem; The Women’s Mobile Museum, Eastern State Penitentiary; Mural Arts Philadelphia; and FabYouth Philly.  In addition to The Museum of Black Joy, Andrea is the creator and curator of The D’Archive.com, author of the poetry chapbook, Ultraviolet Catastrophe (Thread Makes Blanket Press) and the digital web-collection, The Black Body Curve. Com 

Lauren Whearty is an artist, educator, and curator in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA from The Ohio State University and her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Whearty is a Co-Director at Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and non-profit in Brooklyn, NY since 2017. Some places where her work has been exhibited include The Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE), The State Museum of PA (Harrisburg, Pa), The Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia, PA), Gross McCleaf Gallery (Philadelphia, Pa), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Center for Emerging Visual Artists (Philadelphia, PA), Monaco (St Louis, MO), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), 11 Newel (Brooklyn, NY), Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY), Sam and Adele Golden Gallery (New Berlin, NY), The Painting Center (New York, NY), Kathryn Markel Gallery (New York, NY), and Deanna Evans Projects (New York, NY). 
 
Jeff Williams relates to objects and places using a site-oriented approach to artistic practice. Finding meaning in the backstory of cultural artifacts and architectural sites, he works from previously established research and histories. The resulting exhibitions undermine notions of permanence and certainty within built environments. Williams lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and Austin, TX, where he is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at The University of Texas. Williams received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio in 1998 and an MFA from Syracuse University in 2002. He has been awarded residencies at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France; Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA; Recess in New York, NY; Galería Perdida in Chilchota, Michoacán, Mexico; and the Core Program in Houston, TX. Williams was the 2009 Leonore Annenberg Fellow in the Arts at the American Academy in Rome. He is a recent recipient of an NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship for Environmental Structures and a Santo Foundation Award. Solo exhibitions include Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, NY; Co-Lab Projects in Austin, TX; RAIR in Philadelphia, PA; 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA; Arthouse in Austin, TX; and Artpace in San Antonio, TX.