Malena Bergmann

In 1970’s-small-town New England there was no such thing as garbage collection, so Saturdays I went to the dump with my parents. This was a necessity and a much-anticipated event: we went ‘shopping’, leaving with more than we brought. In the 80’s I left the dump and finished graduate school. I have taught in academia since then in FL, TX, SC, and NC. But somewhere in there I went back to the dump. I investigate meaning by manipulating objects and actions, sometimes alone and often with collaborators. I have received 9 professional grants, exhibit nationally, and teach in Charlotte, NC. Learn more at www.malenabergmann1.com

Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Cassidy was born in England in 1966. He studied sculpture at Norwich School of Art, UK and at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN, the Columbia Museum of Art, SC, and at the DeCordova Museum, MA.

Residencies include The McDowell Colony, NH, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, CA, McColl Center for Visual Arts, NC, and Sculpture Space, NY. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, New Art Examiner, and The New York Times. Cassidy is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at Winthrop University.

Craig Coleman

Craig Coleman is an Associate Professor of Art at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He received his BFA degree (mixed media) from FSU and his MFA degree (photography) from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Craig has been teaching art in academia for sixteen years and has taught a wide range of media including kinetic sculpture, graphic design, installation, digital imaging, video, and photography. His photographs and mixed media works have been shown in many galleries including Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art (New York), Georgia College and State University (Milledgeville, GA) the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, CO), SOIL gallery (Seattle, WA) , Museum of Contemporary Art (Atlanta, GA), Museum of Arts and Sciences (Macon, GA), The Arvada Center for the Arts (Arvada, CO), Carol Keller Gallery (Denver, CO)

Kit Kube

Kit Kube is a visual artist whose primary interest of investigation is in the making of kinetic sculptures. He has shown at museums nationally – Exploratorium in San Fransco, CA and Cal State Fullerton in Santa Anna, CA and has commissions at The Science Museum of Minnesota and Explora in Albuquer NM.

He completed a commission “Constructive Interference” for CATS at the Huntersville-Northcross Park and Ride in 2006, and is working with CATS Art in Transit to preform remediation for several works on the light rail Blue Line. Kit has also done work on the Persistence of Vision Sculpture in the Charlotte CourtHouse. He has been an Exhibit Prototyper for 25 years at Science museums. In this part of his profession he has built and developed hands on Exhibits at the Exploratorium San Fran | SMM ST. Paul | Technorama Winterhur, Switzerland | Discovery Place Charlotte | Tekniska Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mary Tuma

Born in California in 1961, Tuma holds a Bachelor’s degree in Costume and Textile Design from the University of California, Davis, and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona. Her work has been exhibited in various venues around the United States including The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento and The Station Museum in Houston, TX as well as in Japan, Palestine and Italy. Her work has also appeared in Art in America, Contemporary Practices, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Counterpunch, NYArts, Mother Jones, and The Jordan Star, among others.

She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she teaches art at UNC Charlotte.

Nathaniel Lancaster

Nathaniel Lancaster earned his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Fine Art, with a concentration in painting. He currently lives in Charlotte, exhibits both locally and nationally, and has won local and regional Juried Selection shows, including a first place award in the inaugural Carolina’s “Got Art” exhibition, in 2009. This summer Nathaniel was a summer visiting artist at the McColl Center for Visual Art. He is currently engaged in his studio making new work while listening to both kinds of music, country and western. You can see more of his work at his website, www.nathaniellancaster.com.

Michael J. Marshall

For the past ten years Michael Marshall’s work has explored the intersections of science and the left brained sensibility of intuition and emotion, a mirror of his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Studio Art. Over that time the work has evolved from delicate platinum prints to his current mixed media constructions of digital printing, encaustic and wood. He is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of Photography at the University of Georgia, Athens. His work is represented by the Krause Gallery in New York, and the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta. Find more at http://mmars.myweb.uga.edu/

David Wilson

NC artist David Wilson, was born and raised in WV. Romare Bearden and John Biggers, heavily influence his work. Wilson weaves myth and metaphor into universal themes of family, religion and culture that inspire introspection, education and communication.
Wilson’s work has been exhibited in Atlanta, DC, New York and Charlotte and is included in notable private and celebrity collections. In addition to his fine art accomplishments, Wilson creates architecturally scaled, public art that is cutting-edge and inspired from the people who live and work where the art will be placed.