ARTISTS

Karen Hampton is a mixed-media textile artist who tells stories using a loom, needle and thread, dye and cloth, creating historical narratives based on carefully researched subjects.

Art has provided a way for Jamie to navigate and communicate the complexities of colonialism, Indigenous worldviews, gender variance and the intergenerational capacity for trauma and joy.

Aaron Peters received a bachelor’s in visual arts from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2016 and a Master of Fine Arts at Ohio State University in 2022.

John Shen uses photography to weave the past and future. His current photographic work explores ideas of contradiction and tension in relation to the history of photography, the object and the future of the image.

Judette Elliston is a Haitian-Canadian vocalist, composer and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work focuses on amplifying our inner worlds; exploring the emotional and ancestral histories that reverberate within.

Nicholas Emery has been a painter for three decades. His work considers the interwoven threads of trauma, beauty, and magic in our physical and psychic worlds.

Scott Hocking creates site-specific installations, sculptures, photography and video projects, often using found materials and neglected locations.

Sheufelt’s work deals with themes of permanence and impermanence, exploring parallels in love and loss across human and ecological relationships.

Michael Thron investigates materiality, entropy and object ontology. Through gathering, manipulation and replication his work acts as a conduit to examine the evolution of the self.

Sophie Worm is a filmmaker located in New York. More recently she has been preoccupied with the notion of Artificial Intelligence and how it will hinder or enhance the future of storytelling.

Visual artist and researcher, in recent years Erica produced objects and installations from research around the relationships between architecture, space and history.

Caroline Clerc is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography and installation. Her work posits landscapes as complex sites of recognition and cultural construction.

Gracie and Rachel’s catalog is marked by hauntingly spare arrangements, bold, baroque flourishes, evanescent vocal stylings and penetrative lyrical tact.

Tali Weinberg’s art practice explores relationships—to the earth, to the places we call home, and to each other—within the context of a worsening ecological crisis.

Grace Theisen is an Americana/Blues artist originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Fairly new to the Michigan music scene, she has created quite the buzz.

Melissa Webb is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the areas of installation, performance, photography and video. Over her nearly 30-year career, Melissa has presented her work at numerous art galleries, festivals and museums.

Lori Larusso is an American visual artist working with themes of domesticity and foodways. Her work encompasses paintings and installations that explore class, gender and anthropocentrism, and how these practices reflect and shape culture.

My work draws heavily from puppetry, slapstick entertainment, collaborative relationships, gender tropes, horticulture and the fiber arts.

Steve Brown is a mixed-media artist and writer exhibiting and publishing in the US and internationally since 2000.

Anna Lee Roeder is a multimedia visual artist based in Kalamazoo, MI. She is passionate about public art.
She creates dream-like collages and photographs and enjoys putting on interactive events.

Erik Vasilauskas has been painting since 2018 and studies with Ken Freed at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. In his work on canvas, he is interested in capturing the likenesses of friends, family members, and their pets. Portraits make great gifts! Erik is also partner in the creative team of Dream Scene Placemaking, which creates mural art in public places.