Combining figuration and abstraction, Max Ferro sequences ideas of place, memories, sentiments and the mysteries of self-realization. His fascination with the concept and experience of creativity and self-expression informs his artmaking approach through pieces made from observation, memory and imagination. Working with such analog materials as graphite, charcoal, inks, acrylic or oil, he flows between them using digital tools and writing to create images and animations sequenced together to present a multitude of stories. The results display the psychological effects of space, the power of stories to transport us through our imaginations and ultimately, the infinite energy generated by love. As an educator, he sees teaching as a social extension of what he explores in his art: mainly, that we are all unique individuals with a voice worth sharing. As a musician, he enjoys creating improvised compositions to experience and share the wonderful decisions one can make when engaged with one's intuition. Through his art, he aspires to reach for the ever-shifting total expression of self; always new and at its core, always present.

Dave Walsh is a painter who lives in New York City. He received his B.F.A from Tyler School of Art and his M.F.A from Yale School of Art. He was a 2015-16 fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He is the recipient of two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants and the F. Lammot Belin Scholarship. Prior to teaching at SUNY Purchase, he was an adjunct faculty member at Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Swarthmore College, University of the Arts and Villanova University.

Elizabeth Flood is Assistant Professor and Chair of Painting + Drawing at SUNY Purchase. She earned her MFA in Painting from Boston University, and her BA in History and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. Flood was awarded two Visual Arts Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in 2021 and 2022. In 2019, Flood was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was an artist-in-residence at the Studios at MASS MoCA, The Owner's Cabin Residency, and the Macedonia Institute. 

Lachell Workman is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. She received a BFA in Photography from the University of Connecticut in 2011, and an MFA from Purchase College, SUNY in 2015. Her interdisciplinary practice investigates the cultural iconography of the R.I.P. T-shirt and ritualistic practices of mourning within inner-city landscapes as sites for theorizing the visualization of the black ineffable body. Workman's recent exhibitions include the 10th Berlin Biennale, Dineo Seshee Bopape, "Untitled (of the occult instability) [Feelings]" at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (2018) and In Practice: Another Echo at Sculpture Center (2018). She has exhibited work at The Knockdown Center (2018), We Buy Gold (2017), The Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (2017) and has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Lighthouse Works, The Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center, Ox-Bow School of Art, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Adam Pape is a photographer based in New York City. Born in Smithfield Virginia, he earned his MFA from Yale University in 2016. His first monograph Dyckman Haze was published by MACK Books in 2018 and was featured in Feature Shoot, Le Monde Magazine, Photo District News, Paper Journal, DAZED, GUP Magazine, and Bookforum. Dyckman Haze went on to be selected a shortlist winner for the Paris Photo -Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards and was included in the traveling exhibition.

His work has been recently included in group exhibitions at Danziger Gallery in New York City, Ashes/Ashes Gallery Los Angeles, Alice Austen House Triennial Deliberate Acts, and Aperture Gallery exhibition Delirious Cities.

He continues to work as an editorial photographer with commissions from The New Yorker Magazine, The Fader, Art in America, and Harper's Magazine.

Select exhibitions include "In Waves," Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY; "Inner Landscapes," Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, IT; "Painting as a Radical Form," Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, IT; and "Greater New York," MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, IT; The Nerman MoCA, Overland Park, KS.

Degen has lectured and taught at The Cooper Union, Rhode Island School of Design, Yale University School of Art Norfolk, Brooklyn College, Fashion Institute of Technology. Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Brandeis University, Pioneer Works, The Brooklyn Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Janine Polak has exhibited throughout the U.S., including at Essex Flowers in New York, N.Y.; Brennan & Griffin, NYC; Scott Charmin in Houston, Texas; and Sardine in Brooklyn, N.Y.; and internationally in Beijing, China, and Australia. She currently lives and works in Queens, N.Y.

Polak received her BA in studio art and economics from the University of Virginia in 2005 and was awarded an Aunspaugh Fellowship the following year. In 2008, she earned her MFA in sculpture at the Yale University School of Art. She began teaching in the School of Art+Design at Purchase College as a part-time lecturer in 2011–12 and then as a part-time assistant professor from 2012–13 through 2014–15. She is currently a visiting assistant professor and the coordinator of the foundation program in the School of Art+Design.

Stella Ebner earned her BFA from the University of Minnesota and her MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.  Exhibitions of her work include: the Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY; Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI; Field Projects, NYC, NY ; International Print Center New York, NYC, NY; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; and SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  Ebner was recently an artist-in-residence at MI-LAB in Lake Kawaguchi, Japan and has also held residencies at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM; the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC, NY; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, NYC, NY; The Creative Art Initiative, Buffalo, NY; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.  She is the recipient of several grants, including a Kala Art Institute Fellowship and Minnesota State Arts Board Artists' Assistance Fellowship.  Her work is in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; University of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM; and the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC, NY, among others. 

Kate Gilmore was born in Washington D.C. in 1975 and lives and works in New York, NY. Gilmore received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (2002) and her Bachelors degree from Bates College, Lewiston, ME (1997). She has participated in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, The Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia (2011), PS1 Greater New York, MoMA/PS1, New York, NY (2005 and 2010) in addition to solo exhibitions at The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2014), MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (2013), Public Art Fund, Bryant Park, New York, NY (2010), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (2008), Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (2006). She has been the recipient of several international awards and honors such as the Guggenheim Fellowship(2018), Anonymous Was A Woman (2018), Art Prize/ Art Juried Award, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2015), Rauschenberg Residency Award, Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL (2014), Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (2007/2008), The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, NY (2009/2010), Art Matters Grant, New York, NY (2012), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Award for Artistic Excellence, New York, NY (2010), the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance, New York, NY (2006), "In the Public Realm", Public Art Fund, New York, NY (2010), The LMCC Workspace Residency, New York, NY (2005), New York Foundation for The Arts Fellowship, New York, NY (2012 and 2005), and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Residency, Brooklyn, NY (2010). Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, Indianapolis; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois. Gilmore is a Professor of Art and Design at Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY.

Cassandra Hooper holds the positions of Director and Professor at Purchase College, State University of New York, School of Art+Design. In her 30-year career in public education, she has invigorated the pedagogy of printmaking and developed a rich and expansive program of learning experiences to support students from pre-college to university, graduate levels, and K-12 teacher development. 

Sharon Horvath, Professor, Purchase College, SUNY, is an Academician of the National Academy of Design, has been a Fulbright Fellow to India, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and received a Guggenheim fellowship award. She has received numerous grants, awards including a Certificate of Honor from Tyler School of Art Alumni Association, the Anonymous Was a Woman Grant for Painting and a Prize for Painting from the National Academy Museum in New York City. Horvath received the Richard C. Von Hess Award for excellence as a teacher and mentor from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, where she taught for five years. She received two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants. She was a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation "space program" resident. She received an NEA Regional Grant (Mid-Atlantic) and an Elizabeth Foundation Grant for Painting. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Prize as well as a Purchase Award from the American Academy. She was also a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Horvath received her BFA from Cooper Union in New York City and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia and Temple Abroad in Rome. She was awarded a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Scholarship by the Tyler School of Art. Since 1987, Horvath has shown her paintings and drawings in solo exhibitions in New York at Lori Bookstein Fine Art and Tibor De Nagy, Philadelphia, Boston, Provincetown and internationally and is represented in numerous public and private collections such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, Utah Museum of Fine Art, The National Academy of Design, NY, among others.

Cynthia Lin was born in Taiwan, grew up near Chicago, Illinois, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Awards include a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and New York Foundation for the Arts Finalist in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. Recent solo shows include Westchester Community College, College of William and Mary, and Drew University. Group exhibitions in New York include Drawing Center, The National Academy of Design, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Yossi Milo Gallery, Equity Gallery, Michael Steinberg Gallery, Garvey Simon, Onishi Gallery, Garis & Hahn Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, ISE Cultural Foundation, Adam Baumgold Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, and Kentler Drawing International. She has also shown at DeCordova Museum and Weatherspoon Art Museum. Collections include Minneapolis Institute of Art and Dallas Museum of Art.

Residency fellowships include MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Space Program at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Blue Mountain Center, Dora Maar House, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Visiting Artists and Scholars Program at the American Academy in Rome, and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus II in Schwandorf, Germany.

Rob Swainston was born in rural Pennsylvania and currently lives and works in New York City. He is an Associate Professor of Printmaking at Purchase College and co-founder and Master Printer for collaborative fine art printshop Prints of Darkness. In 2020-21 Rob was a Guest Professor in Printmaking at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Rob's work sits at the intersection of printmaking, painting, sculpture, and installation and is informed by a duel academic background in Political Science and Fine Art. Rob has been awarded numerous residencies including Skowhegan, Marie Walsh Sharpe, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Solo and group exhibitions include Marginal Utility, David Krut Projects, Bravin Lee Programs, Socrates Sculpture Park, Smack Mellon, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Print Center of New York, Canada Gallery, Queens Museum, and the Bronx Museum. Rob's two recent projects, Doomscrolling and Flash Point, both collaborations with Zorawar Sidhu, had a solo shows at Petzel Gallery, NYC, in 2022 and 2025. Collectively, Sidhu and Swainston explore the intersection of historical print processes with contemporary technologies. Their projects investigate the complexities of contemporary social issues, drawing from the history of print as the medium par excellence of social movements. Works from Doomscrolling has been included in group exhibitions at Princeton Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington. The project has entered significant public and private collections including MoMA, National Gallery D.C., MFA Houston, Staateliche Museen zu Berlin, the Hall Foundation, and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.  Rob is represented by Petzel Gallery.

Swainston began teaching in the printmaking program at Purchase College during 2012–13 as a part-time lecturer and in 2013–14 as a visiting assistant professor. He has also taught at Bard College, Columbia University, and New Jersey City University.  He has been a visiting artist/critic at numerous institutions, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, SUNY New Paltz, Illinois State University, Southern Illinois University, College of St. Rose, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, California State University at Long Beach, Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University, Princeton University, Duke University, and Columbia University.  Rob was the Ludwig Foundation Professor for Printmaking at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin for 2020-21.

Amanda Thackray lives and works in Newark, N.J., and holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. While she is trained in traditional and contemporary printmaking methods, her work ranges from installation and sculpture to cast glass multiples, artist's books, drawings, and mixed media works on paper.

Hakan Topal is an artist, engineer, and sociologist. He is originally from Ankara and has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York, since 2000. He is a co-founder of the international art collective xurban_collective (2000–2012).

His work has been exhibited widely, including at the 8th and 9th Istanbul Biennials, TBA21 in Vienna, Kunst-Werke in Berlin, ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, MoMA PS1, Platform in Istanbul, the 9th Gwangju Biennial, ICP Museum in New York, and the Turkish Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennial.

Topal holds a B.S. in Engineering and an M.S. in Gender and Women's Studies from Middle East Technical University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the New School for Social Research. He is a full Professor of New Media and Art + Design at Purchase , where he currently serves as Chair of Graphic Design.

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