Avantika Bawa is an artist, curator, and educator based in Portland, OR and has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. She has participated in the Skowhegan, MacDowell, Kochi Biennial Foundation, and Djerassi residencies among others. Bawa is Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University Vancouver, WA, on serves on the board of the Oregon Arts Commission.
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Craig Drennen is an artist based in Atlanta, GA. He is represented by Samsøn gallery in Boston and Saltworks in Atlanta. His most recent solo exhibition was at Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, and The New York Times. He teaches drawing and painting at Georgia State University, served as dean of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is on the board of Art Papers magazine. Since 2008 he has organized his studio practice around Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.
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Celina Jeffery is a curator, writer and associate professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Recent publications include The Artist as Curator, (Intellect, 2015). Her new project Ephemeral Coast, www.ephemeralcoast.com
Greg Minissale is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland and is the author of Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Psychology of Contemporary Art (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Owen Mundy is an artist, designer, and programmer who investigates public space and its relationship to data. His artwork highlights inconspicuous trends and offers tools to make hackers out of everyday users. He has an MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego and is an Associate Professor of the Practice in Digital Studies, Davidson College, NC.
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Adrian Parr Adrian Parr is an internationally recognized environmental, political, and cultural thinker and practitioner. She has served as a UNESCO water chair for just shy of a decade. She is the Dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon and a Senior Fellow of DesignIntelligence. She has published several books including Hijacking Sustainability (MIT Press, 2009), The Deleuze Dictionary (Columbia UP, 2005), and with Michael Zaretsky, New Directions in Sustainable Design (Routledge, 2010).
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Heidi Schwegler is an artist based in Yucca Valley, CA. In her work she rescues haphazardly disused scraps: chicken bones, lost shoes, crumpled pylons, take out containers, as these materials decay but never decompose. She resynthesizes her sources into facsimiles with cast glass, gold, silver, wax, resulting in artwork that persists in a “living death.” Schwegler is also the founder of the Yucca Valley Material Lab, a platform for making and thinking.
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Emily Igawa is a graduate of Washington State University Vancouver with a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Technology and Culture. She earned a Pacemaker from the Associate Collegiate Press for her design of the college’s student newspaper’s website.
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Alex Young is a research based artist, designer, writer, and curator based in Pittsburgh, PA. His work explores the motivating factors and end results — and the subsequent potential for disconnection between the two—in the construction of the built environment. His works have been presented at numerous venues internationally including Flux Factory in New York, NY; Kiasma Museum and Alkovi Galleria in Helsinki, Finland; ACC Galerie in Weimar, Germany amongst others.
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