Avi Farber’s work emerges with fire—both in the flame as it flows over clay in the wood kiln and in the spirit of a wildfire as its memory is recorded on his land-based art panels. Years of watching fires move through mountains while working as a wildland firefighter have shaped his approach to ceramics, where landscapes, clay, and fire become active collaborators. This is a ceramic practice that takes place in and with the landscape.

Farber received his Master of Interdisciplinary Design (MDes) from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and a BA in Philosophy from Bates College. His love for mud began in his mom’s studio, where, as a child, he would press clay against his face, using his own head as a slump mold to make colorful masks. He now holds clay as a storyteller—a vessel that carries collective meanings, records reflections, and offers a space to reimagine our own beliefs. His work is represented by Form & Concept and G2 Gallery and has been supported by residencies at the University of California Santa Barbara, the Clay Studio of Missoula, and the Material Matters Lab.

Caleb Considine is a ceramic artist currently pursuing his BFA in Ceramics at the University of North Florida, expected in fall 2026. His work has been featured in notable exhibitions, including the NCECA 2025 Juried Student Exhibition, Intercollegiate Ceramic Exhibition, and Earth & Fire in West Virginia. Caleb has received the NCECA 2025 Regina Brown Undergraduate Student Fellowship and the Undergraduate Research Scholarship and Creative Activities (U-RSCA) Grant. Inspired by the natural world, his work reflects the cycles of nature with weathered earth tones and fiery oranges, achieved through atmospheric firing techniques that evoke the changing seasons.

Emily B. Yang is a block print and ceramic artist based in Brooklyn. She merges block printing and ceramic traditions to explore new visual languages around diasporic storytelling and feminist cultural speculation. She hand-carves blocks to print on porcelain forms to explore the tension between cultural and social expectations, and self-determination. She is a 2025 Archie Bray summer resident and 2025–26 Fulbright Scholar researching block printing and ceramics in India. Emily is a faculty member at Parsons School of Design in New York and has previously taught in the First Year Arts Program at Harvard University. She has completed residencies at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, Anderson Ranch in Colorado, and in Jingdezhen, China, and Jaipur, India. Her work has been exhibited at the Yale School of Architecture and the Royal Academy of Art in London and is part of the New York Public Library’s permanent collection.

Rachel Donner grew up in Taos, New Mexico. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in ceramics and painting from the University of Northern Colorado in 2013. Donner has since been awarded multiple artist residencies including at Red Lodge Clay Center, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and University of California Long Beach. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she makes full time in her home studio.

Spencer Cheek (b. 1993) is a ceramic artist and printmaker from Boston, MA. His work explores the strange and stagnant backwaters of American iconography, drawing together themes of consumption, collection, religiosity, and droll masculinity. Spencer is the 2024-25 Visiting Artist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. Cheek received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, IL (2016) and his MFA in Ceramic Art from Alfred University (2024).
He has exhibited at Sculpture Space in New York City, NY and BICA Project Space in Buffalo, NY and Mark Chapman Gallery at Kansas State University. As a student, his work was featured in NCECA’s 2024 Juried Student Exhibition in Richmond, VA.