(she/her) is a Memphis born and bred artist and art educator. As a biracial woman raised in the South, she is healing the “what are you/are you sure” narrative of being a fetishized pit stop in diversity bingo. The documentation of movement as an embodiment practice guides her work. She reclaims her body by taking it down to its simplest shape, movement, form, and color. The shapes created by overlaid blind contour drawings are blurring movements together, remembering the motion that came before. She graduated from the University of Memphis with a BFA in Art Education and is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting and Drawing at the University of Colorado Boulder.

is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. They explore the potentiality of instability, deviations, and cyclical timelines in allegory, set design in world-building cinema, and sentient matter. Their work is indebted to mutating practices of storytellers and practitioners creating survival tactics and memory out of absences from colonization. They currently live and work in Richmond, Virginia.

(they/them) is a sculptor, poet and curator. Their sculptures use memories, metals, and my body to grow assemblage sculptures, time based work, and performances that exist in the space between my lush visions of life. They have spent a lot of time in my practice explaining why all of my kin and I deserve lush visions of life. Their sculptural practice is a place where I get to cherish the connections between the images and materials I have grown an affinity for.

investigates places, humans and the complex entanglement of both. Her sculptures and installations are materialized questions, directly linked to core samples of physical and social spaces. The built-in pieces confront the alien with the familiar and are suspended between the aggregate states and unstable interdependencies of existing situations. With her collective “Upper Bleistein” and in her own studio practice, Leinen negotiates, expands, and inverts fragile concepts of reality and fiction.

(she/her) (b. 1962, Milford, Connecticut) earned her BA in developmental biology and psychology from Princeton University in 1985. In 1984, she suffered a career-ending injury while vying for a spot on the United States Olympic Field Hockey Team. After recovering from surgery, Russo was attracted to the physical nature of sculpture. She began studying studio arts in Florence, Italy in 1983 and continued studying ceramics at Princeton University. In 1995, she earned her MFA at the University of Colorado Boulder. Russo exhibits her sculptures and installations nationally at venues such as the Alan Stone Gallery in New York, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Miami Project, and The Santa Fe Art Institute. Her work was recently the focus of a 25-year survey at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016. Russo is in a number of public collections including the Denver Art Museum and many private collections. Through the socially and politically based art collective, Artnauts, Russo shows her 2-dimensional works. Since joining the group in 1996, she has been involved in 270 exhibitions in 19 countries. In addition to her studio practice, Russo is an instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder and before that, she taught at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Denver for 18 years. She lives in the mountains northwest of Boulder, Colorado with her husband, Joe Ryan, and two children, Odelia and Henry. Russo is represented by the Harvey Preston Gallery in Aspen, Colorado.

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is a new media artist based in Boulder, Colorado. Brook explores gender identity and body language in their work through motion-capture, sound design, and data analysis. They use these various technologies to better understand the abundant and subtle translations between body, space and movement and how they affect gender performance. Brook has received an MFA in the Kinetic Imaging department at Virginia Commonwealth University (2021) and a BA from Sewanee University (2018). They currently teach at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado. They have shown work at the Anderson Gallery in Richmond, the FAB Gallery in Richmond, Candela Gallery in Richmond, Open Gallery in Nashville.

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is an artist who lives and works in Boulder, CO. Using sculpture and ceramics Grix is exploring ideas of aliveness, containment, and categorization, Grix makes objects that live in the in-between space of sculpture and craft, object and body. Grix is an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Grix has been a resident artist at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, a Winter Resident at Penland School of Craft, and the Ceramics Studio Manager at Ox-Bow School of Art. Grix’s curatorial experience includes creating exhibitions at The University of Arkansas and Penn State University as well as interning at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.