With his sculpture, Porelli wants to provide access to an archetypal dimension of reality, condensing surrealist contaminations, Pop proliferations and archaic symbolism in his visual language. The anthropomorphic inventions that he elaborates produce an estrangement effect of the figuration, creating iconographic absurdities and a new mythology of the present. With his human repertory, Porelli emphasizes the critical issues of contemporary mankind and all the phenomena that underlie society, including the unsustainability of civilization as a development model and its incompatibility with nature.
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His sculpture becomes an example of cultural eclecticism and historical nomadism, representing stylistically the expressive globalization of creation. In addition to painting, Porelli’s work finds its preferred expressive technique in ceramics, both for the connection of this material with the ancestral roots of man, and due to its versatility, which offers him the opportunity to express current, modern and contemporary concepts.

Sculptures produced primarily with slip-cast or press molds, taken from historical figurines or 3-D scans of contemporary individuals, serve as a pretext to realize a transformation and arrive at a “sculptural subject” that is both individual and original. A constant of the variations that propel the sculptures towards continuous regeneration is the attempt to establish the stroboscopic range of human essence. A prolific group of complementary figures is formed that fills the void between two opposed poles of existence.

Porelli’s figures are an example of pure creativity that expresses an incessant impetus for discovery of the infinite nuances of which the mysterious world of reality is composed. They are a grand exercise in metamorphoses, transience and relativity of the creative process, that through an inverse process, converts the stereotype into the archetype.

Porelli has participated in artist residencies and conferences in America, China and Europe, including The Clay Studio and The Archie Bray Foundation in the United States, Jingdezhen International Studio and Blanc de Chine ICAA in China, EKCW in the Netherlands and the Woodman Family Foundation in Italy. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad (China, South Korea, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA). Together with Lori-Ann Touchette, he founded CRETA Rome, an international center of ceramics and the arts in 2012. In 2021, he was elected a member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

As a multi-medium artist Tara McCoy started making crafts at 12 years old.  In high school, Tara took arts and crafts classes with Alyne Stamper where she has since perfected her skills and techniques.  She is known for saying, “everyone’s an artist.” 

Tara has been the recipient of numerous awards at the Cherokee Fall Festival, as well as Oklahoma Art Shows, and at SWAIA in Santa Fe.  Tara teaches other artists how to work with different mediums as well as generating new creations at her home in the Birdtown community.

Anita Fields is interested in how we adorn ourselves for certain purposes and the transformative experiences we are allowed by this process. These ideas are realized by the making of clay and textile articles of clothing such as dresses, moccasins and even purses. They are metaphors for how we see our place in the world and the influences of culture.

As an Osage artist, the work she wants to express comes from a multitude of places. It can be based on childhood memories, experiences, dreams, social issues, and everyday encounters. Anita may be compelled to create work after reading a great story or witnessing a powerful event. She is inspired by family stories and the narratives found in the culture and history of Osage people.

Michelle Im (b. 1984, Atlanta, GA) is a Korean American ceramic artist based in Queens, New York. Through figurative sculpture, her work explores themes of labor, cultural identity, displacement, and the tension between collectivism and individualism. Im was an Artist-in-Residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center & Kohler Co. Arts/Industry program (2026) and a Museum of Arts & Design Artist Fellow (2024). Her honors include the Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort (2023), American Craft Council Emerging Artist Cohort (2023), and Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist (2022). She has participated in residencies at Township10 (2024), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Guest Artist, 2023), Penland School of Craft (Distinguished Fellow, 2023), and the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (Visiting Artist, 2022). Her work was included in the Brooklyn Museum’s “Brooklyn Artists Exhibition” (2024–25) and has been reviewed by The New York Times. Recent exhibitions include NADA New York (2025), DIMIN Gallery (New York, NY; 2025), and The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA; 2024). Im holds a BA in Biological Sciences and Art from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a faculty member of Greenwich House Pottery in New York City. She is represented by DIMIN Gallery in New York, NY.

Adam Chau is an artist working in New York. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute’s Designed Objects program, his research has been published in Ceramics Technical, Studio Potter, Ceramics Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly, and New Ceramics. In 2018 he was awarded the NCECA Emerging Artist Fellowship and in 2019 he was accepted into the International Academy of Ceramics. Solo exhibitions include Harvard Ceramics, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, The Clay Studio, and Taoxichuan in Jingdezhen, China. In 2017 Adam curated Reinvented, an exhibit featuring an international artist roster featuring digitally produced ceramics, which travelled the US to five locations for two years. He is currently a board member of NCECA, Artaxis, and The Color Network.