AUSTEN CAMILLE is a Canadian-American public artist fostering reciprocal, regenerative relationships between built and natural environments, with a focus on rural communities. Recent projects include site-specific public art/AR installations supported by The Nature Conservancy in Sheridan, WY, and by the New York State Water Resources Institute at the Greenport Conservation Area in Hudson, NY. Adjacent to their art practice, Camille has also organized a transdisciplinary conversation series across Temple University and created the podcast 'Our Shared Field,' which brings artists into conversation with people from outside of the arts. Camille holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University.

LYDIA CHESHEWALLA is a Chicago-based Osage/Chicano artist whose practice focuses on the intersections of art, ecology, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing. Cheshewalla co-founded Holy Mother Art Collective (active 2016-2018 in Tulsa, OK) and has served on the board for PostTraditional, an organization raising the visibility of Indigenous contemporary artists. Recent exhibitions include Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire, a two-person show at Comfort Station (Chicago, IL), There Are No Monuments Here, a two-person show at the Union for Contemporary Art (North Omaha, NE), From, a curated group exhibition at Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, IL), and Body Speaking to Body, a solo show at the Union for Contemporary Art. She holds a BFA from the University of Oklahoma.

MATTHEW COLAIZZO is a Philadelphia-based artist and teacher. Through printmaking, drawing, and painting, his work explores our relationship to physical landscapes and questions conventions of boundaries, land organization, accessibility, and private property. He’s been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (CO) and Soaring Gardens (PA)., with notable exhibitions at The Print Center New York, University of Texas in Austin, and Temple University Rome. Colaizzo also founded and runs his own fine art framing business in Philadelphia, where he’s worked with multiple institutions and artists including Locks Gallery, The Print Center, and the Maguire Art Museum. He received his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and his BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

ERIK CORDES, Ph.D. is a Full Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Biology at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has worked on the ecology of the deep sea for 30 years on over 30 research cruises, and has made 47 dives in manned submersibles (including one to 6000 m depth). He is a self-described ocean explorer and ecological oceanographer whose research is focused on the deep sea and its conservation. He actively collaborates with professional communicators, visual artists, film-makers, and musicians to bring the deep sea to the widest audience possible.

ENAENSEMBLE is a dynamic organization fusing opera, theater, cinema, music, cabaret, and art to create immersive experiences that leave a lasting impression. Founded in 2018 by Evan Kassof, Nicole Renna, and Anaïs Naharro-Murphy, ENAensemble prides itself on fostering a collaborative, non-hierarchical rehearsal environment and providing a platform for diverse emerging artists in the Philadelphia region. Notable projects include the 2022-2023 Serial Opera Project (a multi-month reading series of three new mini-operas based loosely on the theme of the celestial), a staged performance of Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, and the unprecedented programming of The Propaganda Machine Show as part of the 2018 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. ENAensemble is a recipient of the 2023 Art and Culture Grant through the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.

JONATHAN GROVER is a new media artist who seamlessly blends tactile engagement with sound manipulation in his interactive creations. Holding a BFA from The University of Akron and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, he shares knowledge through teaching coding and DIY electronic workshops. He has participated in international artist residencies and has exhibited his work around the world, earning him the Austronesian Excellence Award as well as being featured on NBC. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Grover continues to push the frontiers of interactive arts.

SAMANTHA JOYE, Ph.D. is an oceanographer, an educator, and an ocean and environmental advocate. She is a Regents’ Professor and the Athletic Association Professorship in Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. She is an expert in microbiology and biogeochemistry and works in extreme deep ocean environments, as well in blue-water environments. Her work bridges the fields of analytical chemistry, microbiology, and geology and many projects focus on extreme environments, including seafloor cold seeps and hydrothermal vents, Antarctic ice-covered lakes, and pelagic hypoxic zones where she and her colleagues seek to understand how microbial processes shape biogeochemical cycling.

photo by Léna Yasmine

MALTE LEANDER is a Swedish-French multidisciplinary creator currently residing in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada. His primary artform is audio and music, often leaning into musique concrete and soundscape composition through various field recording practices. He also implements voice, blending sound poetry with synthesized environments. Alongside his compositional practice, Leander experiments with analogue video production and DIY-electronics in installations and performances. His work often reflects upon ecological topics such as urban noise pollution, sustainable sonic practices and acoustic ecology.

CHRISTINE LEE has an interdisciplinary practice encompassing art, design, science, and sustainability. She draws from a variety of investigation methods where intuitive direct-hand manipulation, traditional craft processes, and computer-aided technology are her core research tools. Her work includes sculpture, design, installations, and engineering and science-based collaborations. She was a Senior Sustainability Scholar of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University where she also taught in the School of Art of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. She is the 2022 recipient of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Awards in Craft.

CHRISTOPHER MCNULTY is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the limitations of human thought and performance, the tensions between our ideals and everyday lives, and the ways in which environmental space penetrates the body, creating relationships among individuals, species, and objects. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S., including the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Rochester Art Center, and Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta. He is the recipient of a Hemera Foundation Fellowship, Alabama State Council on the Arts Grant, Madison CitiARTS grant, and Rowland Fellowship. A dual citizen of France and the U.S., McNulty is currently Director of the School of Art at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

ANA MOSQUERA is an artist, architect, and designer whose work explores potential futures and investigates how new technology impacts the lives of migrants. Originally from Venezuela, she holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture and a BArch from Universidad Central de Venezuela. Recent solo shows include "Carnet to Go" in EAC Montevideo and "Tierras Raras" in Sala Eugenio Mendoza in Caracas. She has been an artist in residence at the University of the Arts iLAB and at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, as well as an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Notable awards include the Honorable Mention Carmen Cordovez Crespo by HFFA and the MACZUL 2016 National Award.

photo by WeFilmPhilly

REBECCA RUTSTEIN is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice bridges art and science. For over 20 years she has created painting, sculpture, interactive installation and public art inspired by the natural world. Her work sheds light on places and processes hidden from view to foster deeper connections in the face of our climate crisis. Rutstein’s collaborations have taken her around the world including 7 expeditions and 2 deep-sea dives in the Alvin submersible, supported by the National Science Foundation. A Pew Fellowship recipient, Rutstein has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally in over 30 solo exhibitions. Her work can be found in over 40 public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Georgia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C.

HUI-YING TSAI is a Taiwanese/American interdisciplinary artist, ecofeminist, and existentialist working between Brooklyn and Taipei. She has exhibited her work internationally for over a decade. Notably, Tsai has participated in the International Guerrilla Video Festival in Dublin, the On-Site Art Festival in Taipei, Art Revolution Taipei, Young Art Kaohsiung, and the Governors Island Art Fair in New York, and she has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Joan Mitchell Foundation, MASS MoCA, and Red Bull Arts Detroit. Recent awards include the 2018 Austronesian International Arts Award, the 2021 Hualien Art Award, and the 2023 King Car Art Award. Tsai received her BFA from National Kaohsiung Normal University and her MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute.

BYRON WOLFE collaborates on creative research projects with students and colleagues in fields that range from the Visual Arts and Architecture to the Humanities and Natural Sciences. He uses photography and other visualization tools to tell stories that reflect upon the constructions of landscape, perception, and time. Wolfe has authored or co-authored six books and his photographs have appeared in Harpers Magazine, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Orion magazine, and more. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and his creative work is held in numerous permanent collections including The George Eastman Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Wolfe is a Professor and the Chair of the Art Department at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University.