Nia Easley is an artist, designer, researcher, and educator whose artistic and research practices center community engagement and local histories of marginalized populations. Easley's work includes print-based art such as historically positioned print books like THE LAST GREEN BOOK (2022), which revisits the Chicago-based South Side sites listed in the 1962 edition of the famed African American travel guide ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ through careful photo documentation, observation and extensive research; and interventional time-based projects like IT’S JUST OK (2019), a response to neighborhood alienation installed as a billboard in Avondale, Chicago and paired with guided neighborhood tours. Also an art educator, Nia has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2020. Her artist’s books can be found at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, The University of Iowa, Northwestern University, DePaul University, and the Graphic Arts Collection at Princeton.
Ricardo Galvan is an artist living and working in New York. Originally from Chula Vista, California, a border town located between San Diego and Tijuana, Galvan draws inspiration upon aspects of this halfway-point. Galvan work builds on metaphors through image making and sculpture. He brings together aspects of his childhood to the larger histories contained within Mexico; challenging our perceptions of what is to be Mexican-American, though his own experiences and feelings of living on the border. In his work—ranging from small paintings to drawings, to sculpture—Galvan interweaves influences from this movement between these two worlds, one of that in the states to one passing through his cultural homeland. Subversion and reappropriation are central to his work. Through the use of pop culture and recognizable symbols he plays with our understanding of these icons relative to illuminating his perspective. This approach invites viewers to a place of familiarity to then a place of uncertainty.
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Maggie Hazen is a New York and Los Angeles-based visual artist and experimental filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited, screened, and performed at the Bronx Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Tolerance, Granoff Center at Brown University, Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play, and the Center for Photography at the University of California Riverside as part of Southern California’s Pacific Standard Time, among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at venues throughout the United States and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, and Philadelphia. Hazen has received fellowships, grants, and residencies from Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York; AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum; Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center; New York State Council on the Arts/Wave Farm; Lighthouse Works Visual Artist Fellowship; Vermont Studio Center; and the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Switzerland. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, The Stevens Institute of Technology, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, and as part of Bard College’s Clemente Course in the Humanities. She is a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program.
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Riitta Ikonen is a four-time Telluride Mushroom Festival Costume Competition winner, and her interdisciplinary collaborations explore contemporary humans blundering in the terrestrial realm. Ikonen’s first book (created with Karoline Hjorth), Eyes as Big as Plates, was nominated for Best First Photobook in the World at the Paris Photo / Aperture Awards. She has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, the London 2012 Olympic Park, and the PyeongChang Olympics, among other venues. Born in 1981 in Finland, Ikonen completed her BA at the University of Brighton and her MA at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. She is a member of the American Stinkhorn Society (A.S.S.) and spearheads the ongoing @seachanges_rockaways series while lecturing, exhibiting, and performing around the world. Ikonen has been awarded artist residencies at SAC (Tasmania), Selebe Yoon (Dakar), Shandaken, Recess (at Pioneer Works), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (SPARC) as well as being nominated for Finland's most prestigious contemporary art prize, Ars Fennica. Ikonen is currently working on her third book in the ‘Eyes as Big as Plates’ series.
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Sierra Pettengill is a filmmaker from Brooklyn. Most recently, she directed the all-archival film, RIOTSVILLE, USA, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It was distributed by Magnolia Pictures and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Her previous all-archival feature-length film, The Reagan Show, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival; her short The Rifleman premiered at Sundance in 2021, and her previous short, Graven Image (2018), is held at the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. In 2013, she produced the Academy® Award-nominated film Cutie & the Boxer, which also won an Emmy® Award for Best Documentary. She has made several short films about artists, and also worked as an archival researcher for many artists including Jim Jarmusch, Mike Mills, and Adam Pendleton. She was a Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. She serves as a board member of Screen Slate, a cinema nonprofit based in New York.
Sonia Ruscoe is a painter and poet from and based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. She holds a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College. Her paintings have been shown at SEPTEMBER Gallery, Basilica Hudson, Baba Yaga, Better Read Than Dead, Lucas Lucas, and most recently a solo show at Nonchalant Gallery (all in NYC/HudsonValley). Elsewhere she has shown at Casa Lu, CDMX, 4WS space (LA), and in Richmond (VA) her works on paper were part of a performance where they were thrown into a hole and burned. Having spent a lifetime in back and forth between New York City and the Catskills/ Hudson Valley, Sonia's work is interested in emotional connection to environments, She has made work about the wind, war, water chestnuts, intimacy and the way that air holds color. At Shandaken Print Residency Sonia will be exploring the bridges that link her writing and painting practices.
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Photograph by Adam Deen, 2023.