Visual Arts

Andy (they/them) is a nonbinary, queer artist from rural Appalachia and based in Western Massachusetts. They roleplay with concepts of transformation and transcendence embedded in corporeality and spirituality. Their artworks challenge perceptions that the unknown or unusual, historically deemed the queer, is evil. Šlemenda rehabilitates these queer-coded representations through site-specific events and sculptures. Šlemenda’s artworks…

Liz (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines forces surrounding the contemporary body. Her videos are the result of investing found and recorded images with unintended meanings through contextual shifts. At the center of her objects and installations is a preoccupation with materials that our bodies absorb and translate. Her work has been included…

“I currently live in suburban southwestern Connecticut and work in a 100 sq ft studio that I have carved out of the corner of the basement in my home. Along with maintaining a vigorous studio practice and exhibition schedule, I am also currently the head of the studio art department at a small private K-12…

“I am a conservationist concerned about sustainability and equity. I have worked as the founder and executive director for the Conservation History Association of Texas, as an environmental attorney for the Texas Air Control Board and various conservation non-profits, as co-owner and managing officer for Wray-Todd Ranch, L.L.C. and SWT Cattle, L.L.C., and as a…

Elliot (he/him) is a queer interdisciplinary artist, performance scholar, and expressive arts therapist. His creative practice investigates the intersections of performance and visual art, with an emphasis in postmodernism and queer theory. While his work is always rooted in the body, Mercer’s multimodal art practice shifts between photography, film, dance, and drag. His projects interweave…

Working across painting, printmaking and drawing, Adam conjures alternate realities of animate hybrids with an attention to seductive surfaces and forms. His work is informed by his own childhood self-discovery through cartooned and non-human worlds and his interest in understanding sexuality outside the bounds of human existence. Both humorous and sinister, Linn’s work taps into…

“I make playfully abstract and gestural paintings using acrylic paint on canvas. When painting, I use the arc of my whole arm to create forms and shapes that reflect a physical relationship to the canvas, and a sense of movement throughout. I work in this way to keep the work open and fluid so that…

Kari (she/her) graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Electronic Media Arts Design from University of Denver (Magna Cum Laude) and a Master of Visual Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. As a graduate student she was the recipient of the Olin Fellowship for Women in Graduate Study through Washington University in St.…