Originally from Mexico City, Gabriel Dawe creates site-specific installations that explore the connection between fashion and architecture, and how they relate to the human need for shelter in all its shapes and forms.

Award winning artist, craftsman and educator, Joe Cariati has dedicated over 25 years to the practice of glassblowing.

Leo Tecosky, deconstructs iconography through an impressive range of glassmaking techniques. From graffiti letters etched with Islamic patterns to hot-sculpted, Wildstyle-arrow installations, Tecosky juxtaposes the complexity of visual language with the fluidity and transparency of glass.

Sheri Simons is interested in sculpture as an instrument, broadly defined as something that aids in or causes an action or a reaction. Working in wood, sound, and movement for the last eleven years has led to solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the U.S., Canada and South America.

Rebecca Louise Law creates site-specific installations using both dried and fresh plant materials to form an immersive experience that explores the relationship between humanity and nature.

Artist John Kiley uses primary geometric forms as the architecture for his glass sculptures. In his spherical forms, juxtaposed colors and carved optic passageways create a separation of space, allowing the viewer to peer into and through the form.

Linda Nguyen Lopez (b. 1981) received a BFA from California State University of Chico and a MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Lopez has exhibited her work in New Zealand and throughout United States including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia; and the Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York.

Shari Mendelson lives and works in Brooklyn. The winner of two New York Foundation for the Arts grants and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award, she has had solo shows at Pierogi and Black and Herron Space.

Jiyong Lee is a studio artist and educator who lives and works in Carbondale, Illinois. A professor of art at Southern Illinois University, Lee has headed the glass program there since 2005. Lee was born and raised in South Korea.

Nina Cho is an artist and designer, currently based in Detroit. Nina was born in the United States and raised in South Korea, where she received her BFA in woodworking and furniture design at Hong-Ik University in Seoul.

Jen Blazina is a sculptor and printmaker who uses glass as her primary medium. She currently resides in Philadelphia where she is a working artist and professor.

Joanna Manousis' work is born out of a sustained exploration of human nature and the conflicts that exist between our inner reality and the world we occupy. I often emphasize decadence and grandiosity to illuminate the superfluous nature of accumulated luxury when faced with our own impermanence.

As a North Carolina native Davis began an apprenticeship in glass art in 2001 creating production work for a commercial brand and teaching through the Durham Arts Council. Since then his path in art has intersected with many avenues of exploration and opportunity with installation, commercial and public art.

Ben Schonberger is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Utilizing a variety of mediums, his work examines the complexities of identity and narrative as well as the possibilities of an archive.

When an artist puts her identity on display, she might show beauty, or the sights unseen. Artist Doreen Garner explores her sexual, gender and racial identity by reversing the gaze, twisting it and presenting it in an unsettling, grotesque way—demonstrating what impact that gaze has in the first place.

Aufiero has worked with a variety of materials during her career, weaving glass and other materials together to represent elusive values such as desire, happiness, and love.

Adam Mostow was born and raised in the city of Los Angeles, 1980. Growing up in a low income single parent household with three siblings, left resourcefulness and observation as key tools to his survival. With a bloodline spanning from Dutch, Russian, to Pacific Islander, and Cherokee Indian, along with being raised Jewish, Adam walks as a living reflection of his diverse city and lineage.

Percy Echols II began working in glass in 2011 where he took his first Glassblowing Class at Illinois State University. In 2014 he took his first Plasma Light workshop at Pilchuck Glass School, where he met his long-time friend and mentor Pat Collentine. Percy took home this experience to apply what little he knew of this process to the success of his graduating exhibition. After graduating in 2015 with a BFA, he moved to Pittsburgh in 2016 for a year-long apprenticeship at Pittsburgh Glass Center which quickly became his new home. With the support of PGC, along with his podcast and educational project, Taming Lightning, he is currently researching and developing as space for Neon and Plasma Sculpture as an artistic medium.