Robin Dluzen
Robin Dluzen is a Chicago-based artist, curator and art critic whose artwork has been featured in venues throughout the country including the Dorchester Art Project in Boston, MA; Indiana University Northwest in Gary, IN; Bert Green Fine Art in Chicago; Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Chicago; the Union League Club of Chicago; Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago; and the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. The former Editor-in-Chief of Chicago Art Magazine, Dluzen now writes regularly for Visual Art Source. Her writing has also appeared in Art Ltd., ArtNet, Art F City, Sculpture Magazine, and Sports Illustrated, amongst many others. Dluzen received an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
Hiltner is a full-time studio artist and activist who moved to Red Lodge, Montana with her family in 2005 to establish the Red Lodge Clay Center. She grew up in Pennsylvania and comes from a family of makers: her mother and grandmothers needlepointed pillows and made quilts and stitched or knitted their clothes and toys; her father built odd things and cooked outrageous meals and painted murals in their home.
She earned a BFA in Sculpture with a concentration in Fibers from Syracuse University and was a Studio Assistant at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. For over 20 years now, she has been collaging found embroidery and quilts with her hand-stitched imagery, giving these abandoned textiles new meaning and relevance. Her work has been published and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. She was a 2015 recipient of the Montana Arts Council Artist’s Innovation Award.
Elina Ansary
Elina Ansary combines painting with found-object assemblage to explore themes connected to memory, perception, and mortality. She was born and raised in San Francisco and received her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in 2013. In 2017, she completed a professional apprenticeship in Scenic Painting at The Juilliard School and attended a residency at BigCi in Australia. Since 2018, she has been working on a multimedia public art project called "Ghost Tour: San Francisco", which has been included in local festivals such as Litquake and SF History Days. Her work has been shown in galleries and DIY settings around New York and San Francisco since 2009. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.