Helen Lee is an artist, designer, and educator. She uses glass to explore language and diasporic identity. Lee holds an MFA in Glass from RISD and a BSAD in Architecture from MIT. Lee was a 2024 United States Artist Fellow in Craft. She is currently an Associate Professor and Head of Glass in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also founded and proudly serves as the Director of GEEX, the Glass Education Exchange.
Sarah Slappey (b. 1984, Columbia, South Carolina) is a painter based in Brooklyn, NY. Slappey received her MFA from Hunter College in 2016. She has had solo exhibitions at Maria Bernheim Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland) and Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY).
Malcolm Mobutu Smith is associate professor of ceramic art and director of graduate studies in the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University-Bloomington. Smith’s undergraduate studies include both the Kansas City Art Institute and Penn State University where he earned his B.F.A. in Ceramics. He received his M.F.A. in Ceramics from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1996. He is a member of National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. He is on the boards of Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts and The Marks Project.
Indira Allegra is a conceptual artist and founder of Cazimi Studio. Cazimi Studio uses weaving as a framework to creatively transform tension within different sites. The studio is unique in its emphasis on performance, publication and the integration of spiritual care as preferred design solutions. Thinking as a poet, threads of connection are discovered between seemingly disparate experiences. Moving as a weaver, these connections are interlaced into a greater whole.
Janina Myronowa received her M.F.A. at the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts, Lviv, Ukraine in 2012, an M.F.A. at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw, Poland in 2013, and her Ph.D. at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw, Poland in 2019.
