Art

Bridget Burke is an MFA candidate at Eastern Michigan University and will be completing the program in April 2014. The images she creates are highly nostalgic investigations into home, community, and self. The domestic and community portraits are a result of a lifelong search, an exploration of one’s place and identity in the world(s) they reside. Burke exhibits her work nationally and most recently in 2014 has shown work in galleries in Detroit, Portland, and San Antonio. In 2013, Burke's work was showcased in a two-person exhibition at the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography.

Fabian Freese was born in 1982 in Wuppertal and lives in Germany. He spent a big part of his childhood in nature playing with wood and water, and this influenced his sense of beauty and aesthetics. As a teenager he got some experience by doing Graffiti. Today he works with Time Exposure Photography to created his Lightpaintings with LED lights. Freese studied visual Arts at the Freie Akademie der bildenden Künste (fadbk) in Germany from 2006-2011 when he got this degree. Since 2011, his works were exhibited in countries across Europe, America, and Asia.

Originally from Indiana, Joshua White received his BFA in Photography from Northern Kentucky University, and his MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. His work has been shown in numerous group and solo shows nationwide. He currently lives and works in Boone, North Carolina, where he is an assistant professor of art in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University

Kate has lived in Okinawa, Japan, Korea, and throughout the western United States. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Photography at the University of Iowa. Her work has been shown locally at multiple exhibitions, in Lincoln, Nebraska; and in Pingyao, China at the International Photography Festival. Alongside her MFA in Photography and Secondary Emphasis in Graphic Design, Kate will receive the Graduate Certificate of Book Studies, Book Arts and Technologies. Her photography explores the hidden beauty found in non-traditional environments. The photos are generally given without reference or context, allowing the viewer to create his/her own narrative.

Madeline Rile Smith is a flamework artist living and working in Philadelphia. Her work has been featured in New Glass Review Volume 35, Sculpture NOW! with the Washington Sculpture’s group, Craft Forms 2012 and 2013 at the Wayne Art Center, Goggleworks Center for the Arts, and InLiquid’s annual benefit show at the Crane Arts Center. Her work can be also be seen at the Gravers Lane Gallery in Philadelphia. Her work has been featured in Cred Magazine and Superstition Review. Madeline teaches flameworking and glassblowing part-time at the Crefeld School in Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy Learning Tree.

Born in 1976, Oakland resident Marshall Elliott has been making visual art works for the past 15 years. With materials as diverse as wood, steel, logs, motors, and ice, he conceives of his practice as thinking with objects about issues such as incongruity, absence, and control. With a sense of levity, many of his works explore the use of “site-revealed” projects, whose origin lies in the inspiration of the place they encounter.

Melinda Hackett began her career as an artist by becoming an art history major in college. Fascinated with the history of art, she looked at a lot of churches and spent hours in a lot of museums. She worked in art galleries, at magazines and finally had her own gallery in Manhattan’s east village in the late 80’s-early 90’s. She earned her MFA at Parsons/New School in 1996 and joined the ranks of New York City’s creative many with shows in many galleries and work in many private and a few public collections.

Nathaniel St. Amour is a Washington DC based artist with a fine arts degree from The University of Tampa. He specializes in painting and drawing mediums such as oil, acrylic, pen and pencil, but often takes forays into digital media. His work typically revolves around mankind’s fascination with technology and how it has changed the way we interact with each other and the world around us, as well as our very definition of art.

Rachael Banks is a Louisville, KY native who resides in north Texas while pursuing her MFA degree in photography at Texas Woman's University. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. Rachael Banks has been working in self-portraiture since 2008 and focuses on notions of memory, identity, and self-perception. Her work has been shown locally, regionally, and nationally.

Sydney Cash is a versatile artist/sculptor. He has worked with glass, metal, paper and light. Much of his work has involved patterns and/or portraiture. He has had over forty one-person shows. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from Wayne State University in Detroit. He has taught at Pratt Institute, The New Jersey City University and The Brooklyn Museum Art School. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts. His work is in many public collections including MoMA, Le Muse Des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and The Corning Glass Museum. Photo by Rob Penner.