Nathan Anthony is an artist from the UK, currently living in Austin, Texas. He completed a joint MA (Hons) in Fine Art & Art History at Edinburgh University in 2014 and an MFA in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin in 2025. He was included in the 2016-2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize, and had a solo exhibition at Generator Projects, Dundee in 2017. He was Artist-in-Residence at Christ’s Hospital School, West Sussex, from 2017-2019, and Artist-in-Residence at Eltham College in London from 2019-2022, where he made an exhibition of artwork called ‘Muscle Memory’ at the Gerald Moore Gallery in 2021. In 2023, he received a Gilbert Bayes Award for early-career sculptors from the Royal Society of Sculptors. He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Dougherty Arts Centre in Austin, Texas.

Ariana Stein (She/They) is a Hungarian-American ceramic artist formerly based in North Carolina. They apprentices in Seagrove, NC, and learned traditional methods of woodfiring and vessel-making under Kate Waltman. Ari enjoys the physical challenge of large pots paired with elaborate folkloric decoration. In 2025, Ariana received the First Annual Creative Research Fellowship through NCECA to attend a residency in Hungary. She was most recently a six-month resident at Sonoma Community Center, and completed her first solo exhibition there. Ariana has exhibited and taught workshops across the US and internationally.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kaitlin Smrcina makes ceramic sculptures referencing film, video games, and emerging digital realities, using gardens as a setting for the manicured suburban uncanny.

Smrcina received her BFA in 2015 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with focuses in Ceramics and Fiber Arts and Material Studies, and an MA and MFA with honors distinction from The University of Iowa in 2026. Smrcina has been awarded various grants, scholarships, and fellowships during her time at Iowa including the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Summer Fellowship, and is a 2026-2027 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Award Semi-finalist. Since 2012, Smrcina has exhibited across America, in Canada, and with Lefebvre et Fils in Paris, France.

Caroline Roberts is an artist-potter, born in Wisconsin and raised across the upper Midwest. She completed her B.S. in Fine Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020 and is currently an MFA candidate at Utah State University. Roberts has completed residencies at Cub Creek Foundation in Virginia and at Pleasant Hill Pottery in Oregon. She has taught atmospheric firing workshops as well as participated in numerous exhibitions nationwide.

SunYoung Park is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores hybridity, memory, and cultural identity through ceramics and mixed media. Combining clay with fabric, wood, and botanical elements, she creates sculptures that evoke hybrid bodies and environments, blurring boundaries between the organic and the constructed, the personal, and the cultural. Park was selected as a 2026 NCECA Emerging Artist and received the 2026 Studio MASS MoCA Fellowship and 2023 Wassaic Project Fellowship. She has held residencies at the Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research Center, Charlotte Street Foundation, and Clayarch Gimhae Museum. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Belgium, China, and Korea.

Jami Porter Lara is a New Mexico-based conceptual artist. Working across media such as ceramics, drawing, signage, textiles, and lithography, she tries to unbend normal, unsettle natural, and unwind beauty from its logic of power. She uses frictions between objects and ideas to stage moments of contradiction and instability, pursuing spaces where art makes more possible than language can hold.

Recent exhibitions include the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DD; the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt in New York City; the Center for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh; the New Mexico Museum of Art; and Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA. Reviews of the work have appeared in Hyperallergic, Art21 Magazine, American Craft, American Art Collector, and Ceramics Monthly. Her work is held in the public collections of the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the U.S. Department of State; the Albuquerque Museum; and the New Mexico Museum of Art, among others. Residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, SFAI, Arquetopia, and the Tamarind Institute.