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Joey Martin is a North Carolina based artist specializing in painting and drawing. His work explores the absurdity of the human condition in the midst of modernity’s short-sighted solutions to social and environmental problems. Nature, in its vast scale and intricate beauty, serves as a central inspiration—both as a source of awe and wonderment and as a subject of human interference. Through the lens of personal observation and experience, he creates new worlds which serve to illustrate our misalignment with nature, while maintaining threads of humor, beauty, and hope. These environments are created through the process of blending intuitive mark making with figurative imagery, employing a warm classical color palette and contrasting contemporary subject matter. 

Jeannie Regan is a social practice artist who invents opportunities for creative interaction within her community. She enjoys working collaboratively with a wide range of artists, organizers, and community groups to bring people together. While her projects take many forms, including parades, parties, and craft making events, she maintains a focus on the generation of empathy as the key to a better tomorrow. She is fortunate to have worked with the Center for Craft, Local Cloth, REVOLVE, and BeLoved Asheville, among other venues. Hong Kong born and raised in Australia, she completed her undergraduate studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and now resides in North Carolina with her daughter and too many cats.  

Yuwen Renjie is a contemporary visual and sculptural artist from China, whose practice explores the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary art through material experimentation. With an international perspective shaped by her education in China, Japan, and the United States, she uses regionally specific materials and cultural craftsmanship as a language of expression, fostering connections between places, communities, and people. Her work critically engages with globalization and social issues, reflecting on the evolving relationship between material traditions and modern artistic discourse.

Daniel Simone (they/he) is a transgender alternative printmaker and papermaker based in Waynesville, North Carolina. Focusing on identity through inherited traits and everyday waste, their practice is almost entirely cyclical and revolves around recycling refuse and previous work into new pieces. In their current practice, ³Ù³ó±ð²â’v±ð been thinking heavily about refuse, physical traces, and psychological remnants of family visits to relatives long past.