Michelle Laxalt Michelle Laxalt is a multidisciplinary artist working in ceramics, textiles, and on paper. She holds an MFA from Georgia State University and BFA from the University of Nevada, Reno (her hometown). Her abstract, biomorphic work is inspired by the notion that our bodies, like those of the animals and plants we share this planet with, are vulnerable vessels that bloom, transform, and perish. Laxalt has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has been an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center and Vermont Studio Center. She resides in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is a Resident Studio Artist at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. Laxalt is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Morehouse College.

Jiha Moon Jiha Moon is from DaeGu, South Korea, and currently lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida. Moon’s gestural paintings, ceramic sculpture, and installation explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. She describes herself as a "cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds.” Moon draws inspiration from a wide range of Eastern and Western art history, colors and designs from popular culture, Korean temple paintings and folk art, internet emoticons and icons, and labels of products from various origins. She often manipulates and reinterprets these elements to create works that are simultaneously familiar and ambiguous.

Moon's work has been acquired by museums nationwide, including The Asia Society, The High Museum of Art, The Mint Museum of Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Renwick Gallery, and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painter and Sculptor’s award. Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here,” organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum, has been showcased in over 15 museums across the United States.

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