Maria De Los Angeles
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
Wed, Sept 18, 2024

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 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.

Solo exhibitions at Schneider Museum of Art (2018 & 2019), the Museum of Sonoma County (2019), and Goggleworks (2022). Group exhibitions at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, LACMA, Self Help Graphics, and the San Diego Mesa College. Her artwork was on view in We the People: The Radical Notions of Democracy at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

Public murals include 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.

She is currently a Critic and Interim Director of Graduate Studies for the  Painting and Printmaking Program at the Yale School of Art. Her work will be on view in 2025 at the Sun Valley Museum of Art, and in 2016 at the  Fairfield University Art Museum, CT. 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. IG @delosangelesart

Jon Sideriadis
ILLUSTRATOR
Wed, Oct 9, 2024

Jon Sideriadis is an award-winning illustrator, author, and educator; a creator of fantasy art and world-building. From 2018 through 2023, he was Coordinator and Professor of the Illustration Program at the University of New Haven. Previously, he taught at several universities and colleges, including UCONN and Hartford Art School. He has also taught world-building and art history in Rhodes, Greece, and has lectured and held workshops throughout the East Coast. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at Tunxis Community College, allowing for more time in his studio.

Jon’s work has been published in film, television, video games, novels, comics, album art, board games, and trading cards. As an in-house and freelance illustrator, Jon has worked with many clients, including Hasbro, Dwarven Forge, Goodman Games, and Hit Point Press. He has also worked in Hollywood as a creature-effects artist and sculptor on feature films including Godzilla and Underworld Evolution. His artwork has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country, and he is a frequent guest of honor at illustration conventions.

Jon is the author and illustrator of an original mythology series called Astromythos, and he is currently completing the second book in the series. He has also written and illustrated a fifth-edition D&D adventure book, published by Hit Point Press, called Lair of the Spider Lord. Jon received his BFA in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design, and his MFA in Illustration from Hartford Art School.

Cheryl Mukherji
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
Wed, Oct 23, 2024

Cheryl Mukherji is an Indian visual artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. In 2020, she received her MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College, New York, where she was also a recipient of the Director's Fellowship.

In her work, Cheryl explores the idea of origin and inheritance, which is embedded in the figure of her mother and her presence in the family photo album. She incorporates photography, text, video, and printmaking in her works, some expanding to installations.

Cheryl is the 2024 Workspace Artist-in-Residence at Penumbra Foundation, NYC. In 2023, she received the highest award for the 97th Annual at the Print Center, Philadelphia. In 2022, she was a finalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian. Previously held residencies include Stoneleaf Retreat in 2023, Center for Photography at Woodstock in 2022, and Baxter Street at Camera Club of New York in 2021.

Cheryl’s work was exhibited last year at The Gallery at WCSU, where she was also a panel member for an artists’ talk. Her work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. at the Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Museum, Printed Matter, The Print Center, International Center of Photography, Museum of Moving Image, National Portrait Gallery, and Minnesota Museum of American Art. Her work has also been shown in the United Kingdom at Huxley-Parlour Gallery and Format Photo Festival. Cheryl’s works are in collections at the Harvard Art Museums and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.