Jessica Bohus has her BFA from SAIC and has taught at Fiasco glass, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Ox-Bow and Water Street Glassworks. She has exhibited at Beacon Street Gallery in Chicago; Vesuvius Gallery, MI; Torpedo Factory, MD; Kalamazoo Institute of Art, MI; Albion College, MI; and Lighthouse Glass, LA; Mindscape, IL; Good Goods, MI. You can learn more about Jessica at blueroanstudio.com.
Rob Bondgren earned both his MFA and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited his work at Gallery 2, Gallery 312, NFA Space, Finch Gallery and estudiotres in Chicago, as well as at galleries outside of Chicago, including the energy gallery in Toronto, Harper College in Palatine, Art at Large in New York, Louisiana State University. He currently teaches in the Division of Continuing Studies at SAIC, where he is also the Associate Director. Bondgren also serves as the Gallery Director of estudiotres in Chicago.
James Brandess is both a figurative and a landscape painter. He is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He maintains his studio in Saugatuck, Michigan.
E. Jane Connell earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees in art history, summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In her more than 25 years in the museum profession, she has organized many exhibitions and contributed to numerous publications and exhibition catalogues as a curator at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio from 1981 to 1993, and at the Grand Rapids Art Museum from 1994 to 1997, as well as administering independent curatorial projects. She has been Director of Collections and Exhibitions/Senior Curator at the Muskegon Museum of Art since June 2005.
Theresa Gray is owner of Flying Cloud Studio, a 1953 traveling airstream gallery. She is former co-owner of Gebben Gray Gallery and also a founder of the Private Spaces studio tours. She has shown extensively throughout Michigan and continues to curate exhibits along with Kristin (Gebben) Jackson. You can learn more about Theresa at www.theresagray.com.
Todd Knight took his first beadmaking class through Ox-Bow’s Art on the Meadow program. Currently, a psychiatric nurse, he has studied glassblowing and beadmaking in his free time. In the years since he began making beads, he has developed a successful jewelrymaking practice, incorporating his beadwork in unique and hand made settings.
Kimberly Meyers-Baas holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Loyola University Chicago, a teaching certificate and MA in art education from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kim is an arts educator who has worked in the public and non-profit sector in both Chicago and on the Mexican/Texas border cultivating youth, community workers and young artists since 1992. Currently, she is a middle school art teacher with Kentwood Public Schools.
John Parot is a Chicago-based artist, who received his BFA from Northern Illinois University and his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. He has exhibited his work widely, including shows at Bellweather (NY), Mixture Contemporary in Houston, and Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco. In Chicago, he has shown at Julia Friedman, Bodybuilder & Sportsmen, Gallery 400, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. His work has been written about in The New Yorker, TimeOut Chicago, and Art on Paper. He was a 2005 grant recipient of the Illinois Art Council and Artadia.
Catherine Sky studied painting and art education at SAIC. Now she teaches art in the Chicago Public Schools and makes time to paint and exhibit in Chicago.
Ellen Sprouls has been involved with a variety of non-profit organization in Michigan and beyond. She has taught courses in Ox-Bow’s Art in the Meadow program for several seasons. She has years of teaching experience learning from students as she explores the world with them.