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“The images here are from a installation that ce

“The images here are from a installation that centers around the 30-minute radio play-like audio piece which tells a fictional story—through dialogue, pop songs, sound effects, soundscapes, and found audio—of Patti Page encountering other Patti Pages as she travels around the Midwest. Although the audio piece references historical details from the life of the singer Patti Page, Page functions in this project more like a muse. Her many voices embodied as separate characters provided me with a form I could use to play with the possibilities of my own voice; engage with questions of subjectivity, personhood, and sameness; and make a connection between the impulses driving postwar audio experiments and today’s DIY bedroom pop. “

Steph Zimmerman has exhibited nationally and internationally, and attended residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Vermont Studio Center, Arteles Creative Center, and Paul Artspace. She is the recipient of a Creative Stimulus Award from Critical Mass for the Visual Arts and an Artist Support Grant from St. Louis’ Regional Arts Commission. She is currently an MFA candidate on full fellowship at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she also teaches in the media department. She has a BFA in Digital Media and Photography from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Photos by Steph Zimmerman and Perri Hofmann

https://www.stephzimmerman.com
@steph.zim

Sonja Czekalski is a Rhode Island based interdisci

Sonja Czekalski is a Rhode Island based interdisciplinary artist and MFA Graduate in Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. Her current work embeds itself in the fourth wave of American feminism, using fiber arts and hand-paper making to reclaim the craft, body, and voice of the web of women who raised her.

Currently, Czekalski is the Gallery Director of the historic Hera Gallery in Wakefield, RI. Additionally, she teaches studio art across ages, from kindergarten to adult education. She has participated in a variety of virtual exhibitions across the country and a number of group shows around New England including exhibitions at Hera Gallery, Providence Art Club, Art League Rhode Island, Jamestown Art Center and Mass Art SOWA. She is an artist-member at Hera Gallery, a member of the North American Hand-papermakers, and a contributor to Witches Magazine. When she is not teaching or working in her studio she is most likely at the beach with her family, hiking with her dog, and looking for inspiration from fresh air and solitude.

https://sonjaczekalski.wixsite.com/portfolio/about
sonjaczekalski.art

“The use of anthropomorphism in cartoons and ani

“The use of anthropomorphism in cartoons and animated movies and its aesthetic have always interested me. I find them highly imaginative and at times random, but these are the very qualities that serve as the foundation of my artistic practice, within which I experiment and create a fantasy world. What if inanimate objects were alive? What would they be like? What kind of consequence would there be? With these questions in mind, I create anthropomorphic characters from objects and natural environments that I encounter in my everyday surroundings through drawing, painting, photography and ceramic. At the center of all my works are, sense of humor, color, playfulness and the imaginary.”

Shushank Kalapremi Shrestha is from Nepal. He graduated with a BFA from Kathmandu University in 2016 and is currently pursuing his Masters in Ceramic Arts at Alfred University. Shushank’s quirky creatures subconsciously take reference from traditional forms from Nepali Traditional Art interlaced with inspiration of cartoons, animated movies, and its aesthetics.

@shushank17

“I explore art as a tool for practicing imaginat

“I explore art as a tool for practicing imagination and active engagement. In my work I look at novel images and distorted images to prompt imagination in the viewer. The imagery and inspiration for this work is based in the landscape, places that allow us to learn tools like navigation and orientation. Not Completely Here is part of a series of film soaks taken over the past two years. Using materials such as soil, natural water, and berries, I soaked the film before developing it, causing distortion of form and color, disorienting a viewer and opening the landscape into a space of imagination.”

Susanna is a designer and artist from Bloomington, Indiana. She left to live and work in Germany before studying philosophy at Georgetown. After graduating she worked for a short time at National Portrait Gallery in D.C. and then for a printmaker and a photographer in California before moving back to Bloomington for her MFA in Graphic Design, which she wraps up in May. She enjoys many media, including photography, watercolor and oil painting, letterpress, and colored pencil.

www.susannaherrmann.com
@strugglebusart

Sean Kunz states about his artwork “As a potter

Sean Kunz states about his artwork “As a potter making functional work, I am challenged by both aesthetic, and ergonomic considerations. A robust pot that works well is more likely to be used on a daily basis. That means paying particular attention to lids, spouts and handles, important details that can make handmade pots a pleasure to use. The accessibility of a functional craft object that can engage the user on a daily basis is an important aspect of my practice, and with a relatively small investment the user can own a small piece of daily, useful art.

I want my vessels to have volume, a generous space that alludes to their ability to contain and nourish, and to have gesture and subtle anthropomorphic qualities that imbue an energy and fullness. I am interested in surfaces that invite touch and exploration; texture as pattern, contrasting matte and gloss surfaces, marks left by the firing process. I often work in small editions, making each piece by hand allows me to constantly refine designs. The forms evolve slowly through reflection, observing the pots in a group, comparing proportions and surface quality. I prefer traditional atmospheric firing methods, such as wood and salt firing, methods that physically touch and impact the work.”
Sean Kunz, BFA Alberta College of Art and Design, MFA candidate at Alfred University

https://www.craftunion.ca
@seankunzceramics

Born and raised in Booshehr, a small town in Iran,

Born and raised in Booshehr, a small town in Iran, Meidi studied academic painting under Nelson Shanks supervision at Studio Incamminati. He is currently a TA at Missouri State University pursuing his MFA.

www.meidikarampour.com
IG: @meidikarampour

“With the rapid development of science and techn

“With the rapid development of science and technology and the advancement of civilization in the information age, the impact on mankind is not only positive, but also a series of problems, as well as many negative effects: such as the increase of the gap between the rich and the poor and the asymmetry of resources. Intensify and so on. In the oil painting "Mask" series, what I expressed is the crisis of human nature caused by a series of social problems. Human beings show a kind of superficial material harmony under the extreme emptiness of the spiritual level. There is a huge moral collapse hidden in the behavior pattern, as if living in the world wearing a mask. I try to use my own intuitive feelings and experiences to ask questions and try to solve them, giving viewers reflection.”

@liuhaotianart
https://www.clatia.com/artist/index/209-1

“Hooria Rajabzadeh is a photo-based artist. She

“Hooria Rajabzadeh is a photo-based artist. She studied bachelor and master of photography at the University of Tehran, Iran, and now she is a fine-art student at the University of Regina, Canada. Her works are mostly around human rights and women based in Iran. Now she is interested in combining video and photo; you can see her works on her website: www.Hooriarajabzadeh.com."

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