Art

Amy Stevens has participated in group and solo shows in the US, Canada, Ireland, China, Lithuania, and Poland. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Canada. Her work has been published in Real Simple, Russian Esquire, Venus Zine, Prism, and French publications étapes and Muze. Amy earned her BFA in Studio Art/Photography from Arizona State University in 1998 and her MFA from Tyler School of Art/Temple University in 2005. She currently lives and works in Pennsylvania.

Brad Kuhl graduated with an MFA in photography from ASU in 2008. Currently he collaborates with Monique Leyton, known as Kuhl & Leyton. The duo reside in Beijing, China where they create and teach art at the Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA). Kuhl & Leyton explore spectacles of power, crime, tragedy, celebrity and hilarity drawn from public consciousness. Their “Elite Deviance” series (2010) visually narrates recent white-collar crimes. It has been exhibited in California and Florida and was featured in The Huffington Post and Juxtapoz. Their most recent series is packaging-tape portraits of the most-followed celebrities on Twitter.

Bucky Miller was born in Phoenix in 1987 and now resides in Austin, Texas. His work has been exhibited internationally and he is a frequent contributor to The Believer Logger. He is interested in the possibility of photography as a literary medium.

Born and raised in Mesa, Arizona, Cole Robertson now lives in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, most recently in a two-person show at Governors State University in Illinois. He has received numerous artist grants, including five awards from the city of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Partnership and a recent award from the Illinois Arts Council. His work was also published in the latest issue of Scrapped Magazine, a new arts journal based in New York City and affiliated with the International Center for Photography.

Emily Matyas expresses her interest in society through photography. She began as a magazine journalist, and later worked for a non-profit in Mexico. She received her MFA in photography from Arizona State University in 2002. In her recent work, she explores issues of cultural identity and women’s roles by photographing herself as her grandmother in Romania. She presents the awkward view of being from a culture but not a part of it. She has taught photography at the college level and youth workshops. Her work is exhibited widely and collected by organizations including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Filippo Tagliati was born in Bologna, Italy. After earning his BA in Humanities from Universita’ di Bologna with a concentration in Semiotics and Art History, he moved to the USA and he received his MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. Currently Tagliati lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA where he is an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the Grand Rapids Community College. Tagliati’s last projects are at the intersection of photography and video. He creates short non-narrative video installation related to the urban landscape and in the way we perceived it.

Hammond grew up in New York's neighboring towns and villages along the historic Hudson River Valley. He received his B.A. in Art from Arizona State University in 2006. In 2011, Hammond’s art made a drastic change from previous works when he launched his Untitled series. Throwing out his conventional academic training and working from the subconscious and an emotionally charged base, his work shifted to an abstract expressionistic style. Opening his new studio in 2012 at the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati, OH, Hammond has continued exhibiting in Ohio and Colorado and has works in private collections nationwide.

Lauren Strohacker’s work examines the ever-growing conflict between humans and animals as our manufactured environments (physical and economical) expand into natural habitats. She received a BFA from The Ohio State University and an MFA from Arizona State University. Her most recent project, Animal Land was awarded the Contemporary Forum Emerging Artist Grant by the Phoenix Art Museum. Strohacker’s work has been published in the National Endowment for the Arts ebook, Exploring Our Town, Sierra Magazine, Java Magazine, and Phoenix Magazine. In 2014, Strohacker was named one of the top 100 creatives in the city by the Phoenix New Times.

Ryan Peter Miller and Marco Rosichelli overlap their Individual art practice in communal experiences that traverse the gulf of proximity, tedium, and profundity. Miller’s credits include residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Chicago Artists’ Coalition, a Scottsdale Public Art Grant, and international exhibitions in Beijing, Berlin, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI. Rosichelli is an Assistant Professor at University of Central Missouri. His recent achievements include exhibitions at The New Mexico Museum of Art and the Arizona Biennial, and a residency at the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China.

Meghan Kesti, an Arizona native, graduated with a BFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 2011. She continues to reside in the desert where she photographs her family with the wild, desperate hope that time will stop, if only for a moment. Since graduating, her work has been shown in the Northlight Gallery, Kiernan Online Gallery, and Appaloosa Public Library. Her most current work is part of Living Spaces in the Night Gallery during November 2014.

Melanie Yazzie is Dine/Navajo of the Salt Water Clan and Bitter Water Clan of the Dine/Navajo People of North Eastern Arizona. She is Professor of Art and Head of Printmaking at the University of Colorado. Her works belong to many collections including: Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Art Museum of Missoula, Australian National Gallery, Institute of American Indian Arts, Kennedy Museum of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Melanie often takes part in collaborative art projects with indigenous artists from many different nations. Photo Credit: Glenn Asakawa

Ryan Peter Miller and Marco Rosichelli overlap their Individual art practice in communal experiences that traverse the gulf of proximity, tedium, and profundity. Miller’s credits include residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Chicago Artists’ Coalition, a Scottsdale Public Art Grant, and international exhibitions in Beijing, Berlin, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI. Rosichelli is an Assistant Professor at University of Central Missouri. His recent achievements include exhibitions at The New Mexico Museum of Art and the Arizona Biennial, and a residency at the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China.

Travis Janssen received an MFA degree in Printmaking from Arizona State in 2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of the Printmaking Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Janssen’s exhibition history includes solo shows at Seed Space (Nashville, TN), DEMO Project (Springfield, IL), University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN), Arteles Creative Center (Hämeenkyrö, Finland) and Elsewhere Living Art Museum (Greensboro, NC). Over the last seven years Janssen has shown work in over one hundred exhibitions in venues across the U.S. and international locales including Iran, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

William Tolan’s work has been widely exhibited and is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, among other private and public collections. Currently a Professor of Photography at Austin Community College, Tolan served on the Boards of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education and the Texas Photographic Society. He received his BFA in Photography from NYU in 1988 and his MFA from ASU in 1994. He has taught extensively, including at Phillips Academy, Syracuse University, St. Edward’s University and Texas State.