Tom McGlynn

Tom McGlynn is an artist and writer based in the New York City area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian among other national and international collections. His most recent one person show of paintings was in May-June of 2023 at Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC. He is also an Editor at Large at The Brooklyn Rail, where he has contributed articles and conducted artist interviews since 2012. 

James Williams

James Williams II (b. 1982, Syracuse, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores racial constructs, systemic racism, and cultural identity in the United States. He creates paintings and sculptures that often incorporate nontraditional materials to form richly layered reliefs.

Williams has presented solo exhibitions at UTA Artist Space (Atlanta, GA), LC VA Museum (Longwood, VA), Langer Over Dickie (Chicago, IL), and Resort Baltimore (Baltimore, MD). His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at GA VLAK Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Catalyst Contemporary, and the Walters Art Museum (both in Baltimore, MD), among others.

Williams’s work is included in the public collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Williams is the recipient of the 2022 Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize and the MFA Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. His exhibitions have been reviewed by publications including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Beat, The Baltimore Sun, BmoreArt, and others. He currently lives and works in Baltimore, MD. 

Maria de Los Angeles

Maria de Los Angeles is a Mexican-born American artist who addresses ideas of migration, belonging, and identity through her drawing, painting, printmaking, and wearable sculptures. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art (2015), a BFA from Pratt Institute (2013), and an Associate Degree from Santa Rosa Junior College (2010). Maria was awarded the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize by the Yale School of Art in 2015 and the William Aguilar Cultural Award in 2023, by the AHHE American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Inc. for her artwork and her role within her communities.

She has been an artist in Residence at the Sun Valley Museum of Art, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, MASS MOCA, El Museo del Barrio, LACMA, Monira Foundation, and Schneider Museum of Art within Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University. Her solo exhibitions include those at Schneider Museum of Art (2018 & 2019), the Museum of Sonoma County (2019), and Goggleworks (2022).

De Los Angeles has been included in group exhibitions at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, LACMA, Self Help Graphics, the San Diego Mesa College and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Her work is currently on view at the Sun Valley Museum of Art. Public murals include those at Glen Ellen, California (2021), Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (2022), Santa Rosa Junior College (2023), the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts 2023) and the Harmon Guest House (2024). Her artwork is in the permanent collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Sonoma County, the Green Family Art Foundation, the Marcus Collection, San Diego Mesa College, Smith College, and the Jack Leissring Studio. De Los Angeles is currently a Critic and the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies for the Painting/Printmaking Program at the Yale School of Art. Upcoming group exhibition are scheduled for 2025-2026 at the Fairfield University Art Museum, CT and the Schneider Museum of Art. De Los Angeles is based in Jersey City, NJ, Santa Rosa, CA, and New Haven, CT. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artnet, New York Magazine, HelloGiggles, and The Observer.

Joan Waltemath

Joan Waltemath was born in Nebraska in 1953 and grew up on the Great Plains. Moving to the East Coast, she received a BFA in Painting from RISD in 1976 and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College in 1993. In 1977 she and Eve Vaterlaus curated Space Window at Brown University, which was cited as one of the earliest Art and Science initiatives in the US. In the late ‘70s Waltemath collaborated on films with an artists’ group formed around Harald Vogl.

Waltemath’s practice has continued to engage dialogically with other media and disciplines. Her paintings materialize as a response to architecture, events, visions, and historical frameworks. Her eight large-scale paintings, The Treaty of 1868: an Epic (2009-2018), take as their subject Waltemath’s relationship to the genocide unleashed upon the Plains Indian tribes in the wake of the Fort Laramie treaty. They reflect the fractured history that continues to unfold and change as it is told and retold.

In the early 2000s Waltemath collaborated with Architects Büttner, Braun, Newmann to design the façade for St. Canisius Pfarrkirche in Berlin, Charlottenburg. Currently, the construction of the Joan Waltemath Foundation in Hooper, Nebraska with Ballman/Khapalova architects, aims to make visible a synergistic relationship between Art and Architecture. Waltemath is also Editor-at-Large at The Brooklyn Rail, where she continues to write about art. Now retired from teaching, Waltemath held adjunct positions at the I.S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and at Princeton University before becoming director of the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting (MFA) at the Maryland Institute College of Art.