Honi Ryan is an interdisciplinary artist based in The Blue Mountains, Australia and Berlin, Germany. 

Ryan works across media-arts, performance, social sculpture and installation. She is interested in art as alternative models for living. Her work has cross cultural concerns and approaches the body in dialogue with electronic media, a body that is both an organism and a part of social behaviour. 

Laura Bernstein is a multimedia artist who constructs idiosyncratic scenarios and vignettes through video and performance. Her fictional characters and creatures engage with the surrounding environment to expose unusual and absurd interactions. Playing with notions of public and private space, she pursues forms that disrupt distinctions between the interiority of imagination and habitual, uniform reality. Her sculptures sometimes perform without a body and toggle with time to conjure previous functions and future existences. Bernstein received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania with a certificate in Time-Based & Interactive Media in 2014. She was awarded a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship (2014) and was a fellow at Vermont Studio Center (2013) as well an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (2013). She has shown her work in Philadelphia, NY and Austriaand is part of the permanent collection of the National Dance Institute in New York. Her most recent work includes public performance in Vienna as well as in Philadelphia. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Moi Tran creates work that exists between abstraction, craft, assemblage, painting, installation and drawing. Her investigations of line, volume, colour, texture, shape, repetition and form are imbued with a sense of questioning, concerned with the need to examine visual assumptions of the use of craft in spatial compositions. Incorporating the idea that cloth wears, fades, stains, stretches and becomes an intimate record of our physical presence and history, her work denotes philosophies of the unfamiliar in the familiar.Textile is the primary material in Tran’s work and traditional textile craft the main tool for manipulation. Importantly the artist insists the textile performs with more prominence than as mere grounds onto which paint would be traditionally applied. Her work considers the process, consideration and time taken in making objects link the close geography concerned with small movements of the hand and arms with the larger mental and physical geographies involved in the engagement of the broader environment. Tran also creates set and costume design for theatre and performance.

Stacy Lynn Waddell creates works that appropriate the power invested in linguistics, historical record and cultural leitmotifs. After earning her MFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007, Waddell’s works and multimedia installations have been on view at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University (NC), the Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), The North Carolina Museum of Art (NC), The Gibbes Museum of Art (SC), The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PA), Project Row Houses (TX), The Studio Museum in Harlem (NY) and Koplin Del Rio (CA) among other venues.

Waddell’s works are represented in public and private collections across the country. She has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, an Art Matters Grant and has been in residence at Project Row Houses. Currently, she is participating in When The Stars Begin To Fall: Imagination and the American South that originated at The Studio Museum in Harlem and will travel to the NSU Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Fall ’14) and the Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston, MA (Spr ‘15). She resides in Chapel Hill, NC.

Living in Waikiki, being raised in the heartland of America, and commuting to work as a flight attendant out of New York City to Europe has given Robert a wealth of artistic material. He received his MFA in 2011 from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Robert has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally regarding current and controversial issues such as tourism, consumption, civil rights and pop culture. Observations about the realm of good and bad human behavior to reveal the ironic choices humans make are layered into his work as well as personal issues and topics. He uses mixed media to create sculpture, installation, performance and wearable art and often combines these mediums and makes them interactive.Robert prefers to use found or common universal objects in a new fashion rather than typical art supplies. He employs humor, sound, irony, bright colors and odd materials to lure in the viewer with a veiled hidden and layered meaning.

Ali Aschman creates hand-made worlds exploring emotional states. Hybridity, transformation, alienation and guilt are recurring themes. Her practice includes animation, installation, drawing and printmaking. She experiments with narrative forms through moving and still images, kinetic and static objects and sculptural tableaux. Aschman earned a BA from the University of Cape Town and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ali Aschman’s residency is supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

Judith Parker is a curator, writer and art historian who lives in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. The city is named after indigenous traders, the Odawa, who met explorers traveling the Kitchesippi River. Judith curates interdisciplinary contemporary exhibitions in non-traditional places where artists can respond to specific cultural sites or historic artifacts. Every August, she creates collaborative performance in the Canadian wilderness with R. Murray Schafer’s Wolf Project. In 2014, Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens presented five outdoor plant-based installations addressing its location at Agriculture Canada’s Central Experimental Farm. As former curator at the historic Bytown Museum, Judith initiated Artist-in-Residence solo exhibitions presenting contemporary art in dialogue with Victorian-era artifacts.