SESSION 1 - June 1–7

Tammie Rubin is a ceramic sculptor and installation artist whose practice considers the intrinsic power of objects and coded symbols as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics. Her artwork weaves together familial, historical, and literary narratives of Black American citizenry, migration, autonomy, and faith. Rubin has received residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Penland School of Craft, and Pottery Northwest. She is the 2022 Tito's Prize winner and a 2024 USA Fellow in Craft.

Rubin exhibits widely; selections include Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; AGBS Christian-Green Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin, Mulvane Art Museum, KS; George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX; Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN; The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX; Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX; Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY; and Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX. Rubin is represented by Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX., and C24 Gallery, New York, NY.

Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin lives in Austin, TX. She is an Associate Professor of Ceramics at Texas State University.

SESSION 1 - June 8–14

Cathy Lu is a ceramics-based artist who manipulates traditional Chinese art imagery and presentation as a way to explore how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of American identity. Her work has been exhibited at the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Asian Art Museum SF, The Berkeley Art Center, the Chinese Culture Center SF, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, SFMOMA, Galerie du Monde Hong Kong, US Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, among others. She received a BA & BFA from Tufts University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

SESSION 2 - June 15–21

Natalia Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist born and raised in Miami, Florida to immigrant parents. She received her BFA from FIU and her MFA from OSU. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in museums, galleries, and included in various collections, such as the Everson Museum, New York; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts; The ICA Miami; and the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada. She was a 2018-19 resident artist in the Ceramics Program at Harvard University, where she researched pre-Columbian art and histories. In 2019-2020, Arbelaez was an artist-in-residence at MAD in New York City, where she researched the work of historical and influential women ceramicists of color and continued this research as a 2021 and 2023 Visiting Artist at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California. She joined the School of Art + Art History + Design as Assistant Professor in Ceramics in the fall of 2024 after completing a residency at the MenLo Studio in Jingdezhen, China, where she spent the summer researching the city's rich ceramic history and industry.

SESSION 2 - June 22–28

Edie Fake is a painter and visual artist whose work examines issues of trans identity and “queer space” through the lens of architecture and ornamentation. Fake’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY and Marlborough Contemporary, NYC, and in group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, VA. His collection of comics, Gaylord Phoenix, won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Fake’s large-scale projects include mural installations for The Drawing Center, NYC and BAMPFA in Berkeley, CA. He is currently represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and Broadway Gallery in New York.

SESSION 3 - July 6–12

Santiago Galeas, an artist born in Silver Spring, Maryland, weaves the realms of gender, sexuality, and nature in his paintings. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and holding a recent Masters in Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art, Galeas portrays queer Latinx Americans against the simultaneous backdrops of North American landscapes and a vibrant fantasy of Latin America. His work explores themes of gender, sexuality, immigration, and diaspora, celebrating the power of queer and trans individuals in portraiture. Galeas has been honored with a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, three publications in New American Paintings and an upcoming solo exhibition at Rosemont College.

SESSION 5 - July 21–26

Macon Reed is an artist working in sculpture, installation, video, painting, and social practice. Their work has shown at venues such as the National Art School (Sydney), San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, Transmediale Vorspiel (Berlin), La Patinoire Royale (Brussels), the University of New South Wales Gallery (Sydney), Columbia University, Brown University, Royal Academy of Arts Schools (London), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Museum of Art and Design NYC. They received First Prize at the 2023 Louisiana Contemporary exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

Reed completed their MFA at University of Illinois at Chicago (2013) and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2007). They studied Physical Theater at Dah International Theatre School (Belgrade), Radio Documentary at Salt Institute for Documentary Studies (Maine), and Socially-Engaged Arts at The Kitchen (NYC). They attended residencies and fellowship programs at Royal Academy of Arts (London), Eyebeam Center for Art+Technology, Amherst College, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

SESSION 5 - July 27–August 2

Lisa Williamson creates works that are visually precise, physically resonant, and highly attuned to the spaces in which they are exhibited. Regarding precision as an expressive gesture and calibration as a mode of production, the artist’s expansive approach to color and meticulous attention to surface softens the line between abstraction and figuration, painting and sculpture, language and object. Born in 1977, Williamson lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She graduated with a MFA from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2008) and received her BFA from Arizona State University, Tempe (1999). Her most recent solo exhibitions include Hover Land Lover at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, LA (2024) and A Landscape and A Hum, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY (2022). Williamson’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; CCA Andratx, Mallorca; University of Illinois, Springfield; and The Embassy of the United States in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

SESSION 6 - August 3–9

Reginald Pointer received his MFA from Florida State University. He currently lives in Washington DC., where he teaches ceramics, and printmaking at Howard University. In addition, he has taught at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Grambling State University, a workshop at Smithsonian, and workshops at the Penland School of crafts. He has presented at multiple NCECA Conferences and is the artist and creator behind the ‘Clay HERO’S’ Zine. His other creative interests include making and playing ceramic musical instruments, puzzles & game design. You might find his works in many private collections across the country (maybe a random friend’s cupboards if you should choose to look) just waiting to be filled with beverage.

SESSION 7 - August 10–16

Emma Safir is a New York City-based conceptual artist who has maintained a studio practice since 2012. Safir’s cross-media practice spans painting, photography, digital manipulation, textile techniques, and sculpture. She employs different modes of image generation—rubbings, analog film, digital photography, Photoshop, and embroidery—to explore the gendered labor of textiles and how it relates to the history of computing. These invisibilized formations of domestic and digital labor often share an undervalued status, which Safir seeks to address and mend through her work.

After graduating with a BFA from RISD in Printmaking, Safir continued her education by earning an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting & Printmaking, graduating in 2021. The artist has had solo exhibitions at Blade Study, Baxter St at CCNY, with upcoming solo shows at Hesse Flatow and Buffalo Institute for Art. She has also participated in group shows at Jack Barrett, Lyles & King, Hesse Flatow, among others. In 2024, Safir was awarded the Curatorial Spotlight at the NADA NY Art Fair and has been featured in The New York Times, ART News, Artsy.net, and whitewall.

SESSION 8 - August 17–23

Chenlu Hou, born in Shandong, China, is a Providence-based ceramic artist with an MFA from RISD. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has completed residencies at Penland, HCCC, and Archie Bray. Chenlu currently teaches at Connecticut College and is a Visiting Critic at RISD. Chenlu Hou is interested in merging traditional storytelling with contemporary experiences through her imaginative ceramic sculptures. By blending elements from her life in the U.S. and her Chinese heritage, she transforms clay into a metaphor for adaptation and emotion. Using ceramic