Jazmin Novak is a New Mexico-based sculpture artist. Her focus lies in creating work influenced by the desert environment. Incorporating bronze, aluminum, iron, and glass, her work reflects the importance and beauty the landscape holds. Novak believes connection to one another is imperative to our well-being and uses animal figures as narrative devices to communicate stories of connection, identity, and shared humanity. Novak is a Diné artist born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sculpture allows her to tell stories from an Indigenous perspective. Each work is informed by the process, allowing the piece and the narrative to grow together.

Novak received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts with a minor in Performing Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2021. She has exhibited her work in New Mexico in various museums and galleries, including the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, SITE Santa Fe, 516 Arts, and internationally at the Marist LdM Biennale 2019 Exhibition during the Venice Biennale. Novak is a recipient of the 2023 Dreamstarter® Creatives. After working in the themed entertainment industry for Meow Wolf and Walt Disney Imagineering on various projects, Novak is establishing her studio in Santa Fe, NM.

Lindsy Marshall is an artist and maker living in Massachusetts. Discovering glass while studying at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, it has come to be a prominent material in her work. She’s studied at institutions such as Pilchuck Glass School and Pittsburg Glass Center. Her work has been shown in notable exhibitions such as Bullseye’s Emerge 2018 and Contemporary Glass Sculpture with New Bedford Art Museum. Lindsy spends much of her time focused on experimentation and exploration pushing the limits of what is possible with the material and creating work that is unrecognizably inspired by nature, life, and the body.

María Naidich is a practice-based researcher working mainly with sculpture and installation. Her installations are built around fiction, speculative narratives, archaeology-inspired methods, and references to non-Western cosmologies in relation to nature. Her installations involve texts, glass sculptures, ceramics, assemblages of found objects and materials, light, and sound. Her practice addresses topics related to stones, water, the concept of nature, and the dichotomies derived from an anthropocentric understanding of nature, such as the alive/inert and natural/artificial distinctions. She is a PhD candidate at UNAM in Mexico, where she is currently developing research on geological and artistic glass and the mutability of this material within the discussion of the natural and the artificial.

Born into a family of glass artists, which founded Wu Zixiong Glass Art Museum, Wu began to learn glass carving art and other crafts at the age of nine and travelled frequently around the world with his father. This experience became an important influence and source for his artistic creations. Graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen in France. In 2017, he founded Yue Studio, exploring and innovating both the contemporary glass sculpture and contemporary art. Giants, childhood, cities and the frontiers of consciousness seem to him to be metaphors as well as sources of creativity. He focused on personal memories and on the fields that affect the psyche, introducing these processes of tracing human fragments in his works.