Michael Dodson is a multidisciplinary artist working with fabric, sewing, and screen printing to explore identity as both exposed and concealed. His practice centers on the tension between vulnerability and protection, creating garments and accessories that function as sculptural extensions of the body. Rooted in process, his work reflects the layered formation of identity over time. Using materials such as cotton and satin, he incorporates obscured screen-printed imagery that accumulates like conceptual imprints, suggesting evolving selfhood and perception. Through loose-fitting forms that obscure and reshape the figure, Dodson blurs boundaries between surface and structure. His work invites viewers to consider identity as an embodied experience shaped, protected, and revealed through what we wear. 

Julia Fouser  

Instagram @jcfouser

Julia Fouser is a multidisciplinary artist. For her current project, The Past is in Every Direction, she uses personal archives and experimental printing techniques that degrade the image to explore memory and aging. She is interested in the difference between the language of diagnosis and the feeling of lived experience. 

Ryan Kennedy 

Utilizing the body as means to critique systems of meaning, Ryan Kennedy leans into drawing as an artistic medium, criticizing both value and conceptions of the individual. 

Kelvin He Hao Low 

Kelvin He Hao Low is a Malaysian-born artist whose practice explores memory, identity, and material presence. Through textile-based techniques such as weaving, sewing, and embroidery, Low reflects on his childhood and identity. The H Project navigates the tension between preservation and loss. Using intricate, time-intensive techniques, Low gives form to fading memories, treating materials as both archive and inquiry. Threads, fabrics, and stitched surfaces become carriers of history—fragile yet enduring—mirroring how memory is constructed, altered, and sustained over time. Through his patterned meditative approach, he invites viewers to reflect on their own histories and consider how ephemeral moments can continue to shape present identity. 

Lexi Moser

Instagram @leximoser  

Raised in New Buffalo, Michigan, Lexi Moser is an oil painter critiquing societal apathy, stagnation, and antagonism through the catalyst of fossilization. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Toledo, graduating with departmental honors. 

Austin Remetta

Instagram @austinremetta

Austin Remetta is a photographer creating images of the man-altered landscape to highlight growing disconnection between one another in society. These images depict a landscape that has been exploited by the growth of modern suburbia and that showcase the sprawl that has pushed us so far apart. 

Brenay Spencer

Instagram @havoceramics 

Baltimore-born artist Brenay Spencer explores a form of self-portrait using interior space and items that reflect her lived experiences of growing into womanhood. “Of mine” is a mixed media installation where she creates a room full of ceramic items, that depict the in-between space of childhood and adulthood by recreating aspects of her domestic life. Her work also reshapes stereotypes around Black women in America, including the sexualization of girls and the infantilization of women. By replicating domestic items that have been a constant part of her life—such as sticky notes, makeup, clothes, jewelry, and food—she calls attention to the delicate boundary between womanhood and girlhood. 

Sarah Bell Wilson  

Instagram @sarahbellfineart

Sarah Bell Wilson creates large-scale landscapes using thousands of small black-and-white oil paint marks. From a distance, Sarah’s paintings may appear abstract, but as the marks interact, they gradually become recognizable forms. Through a physical process of methodical labor and careful observation, each work translates an encounter with the landscape, serving as an immersive record of time and attention. Up close, the paintings reveal a record of the artist's hand; from afar, they evoke the expansiveness of the sublime, transforming the concentration of momentary observation into a monumental experience. 

Photos by Lia Latty