Tanya Pirasteh is a Columbus, Ohio native and a graduate of the Columbus College of Art & Design, where she honed her skills in drawing, watercolor, and small metals. With a passion for both creating and teaching art, Tanya has exhibited her work throughout Ohio. Since, 2017 she has taught various drawing methods across diverse art spaces. Her work reflects a deep engagement with her mediums and a commitment to artistic education.

Eric Murphy chooses between carving stumps of wood, making an assemblage from found objects, or painting on canvas,masonite, slate or some other surface using a variety of mediums.  His process is mostly joyful, and music is usually a big part of that experience.  His goal is to provoke thought and emotion to a depth of truth and to have a visual point of interest.

Jean Pitman is a midwesterner who has lived and worked all over the planet.  She has worked in a variety of mediums including large scale outdoor sculpture, painting, printmaking, textiles,dying,stitching and clothing . She has a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, an MFA and Museum Studies degrees from University of Hawai’i. Her work experience includes 45+ years of working in a wide range of community engagement/community arts projects on Native American Indian reservations, in neighborhoods, in rural and urban areas, with social service agencies, places of worship, universities and schools nationally and internationally. She is presently working in the Learning & Public Practice Department at the Wexner Center for the Arts at OSU.

Max Adrian grew up in Lee’s Summit, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and later went to college at the Kansas City Art Institute. He finds a lot of inspiration in performance arts, specifically theater, drag, and puppetry. Postmodern architecture is another big source of inspiration for him.  He gravitates toward tactile materials that have strong associations to play and performance: spandex, faux fur, pleather, nylon ripstop, vinyl, fringe, sequins! At its core, his work is about queerness and desire in the midst of a culture of constant stimulation. Max is interested in the complex experience of being a modern consumer of goods, of places, of resources, of each other, and the hybrid sensations of pleasure, anxiety, excitement, and exhaustion that ensue. His work blurs boundaries between bodies, objects, and structures to consider the ways that our desires feed into and impact the world around us.

Linda Leviton attended the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Architecture and Art and graduated Summa Cum Laude. She worked as a graphic designer in Chicago for corporations and design firms. While working for American Hospital Supply she began creating artwork from found materials for their corporate art collection. Linda developed a series of wall hangings using textiles combined with metal and paint to create art quilts. This began her fascination with patterns and modules.

Linda has exhibited nationally and internationally. She set up her sculpture studio in 1993 and works with galleries, art consultants, architects and designers throughout the U.S. She has developed public art projects, installations and wall sculptures that range from the intimate to large pieces up to 70 ft. Her background as a designer helps her to work with all types of clients developing commissions for hospitals, universities, religious institutions, business and government facilities.