Tanya Hartman grew up in New York City, Cuernavaca, Mexico and London, England. She earned a BFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in painting at Yale University. She was then a Fulbright Scholar in Stockholm, Sweden. She now teaches painting and drawing at the University of Kansas where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art.
In addition to being a working artist, Tanya Hartman also writes about art. Her writing appears regularly in Ceramics Art and Perception magazine, and in April 2010, one of her non-fiction pieces appeared in The Sun magazine.
Hartman is represented locally by Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, and has also exhibited at The Center for Book Arts in New York, A.I.R. Gallery in New York, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; and at the Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas. She lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri with her husband Eric, stepson Daniel and three high-spirited canines.

He is the Founder and Editor of Critical Ceramics, an online journal of issues and ideas of interest to the serious ceramic artist. In addition, Forrest has been the Artistic Programs Director at Baltimore Clayworks, an Independent Curator, and Ceramics Instructor. Currently, he teaches in the Harvard Ceramics Program. In 1996, Forrest was awarded an MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred. He has exhibited, taught, and worked in Maine, New York, Vermont, Colorado, Maryland, Oregon, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and other such exotic locales.

Mathur holds a Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia. He works in the fields of artistic research, postcolonial studies and education, and cultural studies, and he is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada, a creative think tank that supports artists in various stages of their projects. His most recent project is an interdisciplinary novel and installation entitled “A Little Distillery in Nowgong,” an investigation of Parsi history and familial generations through fiction and art.

Ruble works as a freelance critic for Art in America. Her paintings have been included in exhibitions in New York and abroad, and she is represented by Foley Gallery in New York City. She also currently holds an artist-in residence position at Fordham University.

She is currently an educational curatorial assistant for ExhibitsUSA where she performs research and writes for traveling art and humanities exhibitions. Her writings on contemporary art and ceramics have been published in Kansas City’s Review magazine. Her essays on the three fellowship artists provide a glimpse of the ceramic excellence for which the Bray has become internationally renowned.