Rachel Best

I feel a deep connection and interest in the reoccurring patterns in nature both on a microscopic and life-sized level.  I am inspired by naturally growing patterns, landscape erosion, macrobiotic marine life, and repeated configurations found throughout earth.  I...

Valerie Butler

In the wake of my mother’s death, art served as my therapy, salvation, and antidote to crippling grief. I enrolled in a series of botanical drawing courses after losing all interest in the writing and editing that had been my livelihood. I became lost in contemplation...

Tristan Carmichael

I evoke a sense of wonder and fantasy in my illustrations. I enjoy invoking excitement and intrigue as a means to recapture a sense of childlike wonder. My works are typically hybrids of analog and digital creative methods that finalize in the form of a digital print....

Jaquelee Chit Yu Chau

Through mixed-media sculptures and printmaking methods, I investigate attachment in transient living spaces. My work is based on personal experiences of moving frequently while growing up in the gentrifying urban city of Hong Kong SAR. I found a sense of security in...

Alice Qinghui Chen

I create paintings utilizing the traditional Chinese red and modern sky blue to represent constraints and freedom as it relates identity, social issues, cultural conflict, and gender equality. As a bicultural woman with an Eastern background, I struggle with the sense...