Rose Schreiber is the 2023-2024 Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kansas’ Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research Center (ICRC). She is a 2023 graduate of the Ceramics MFA program at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She was awarded the 2023 inaugural Environmental Sustainability Fellowship from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Prior to ceramics, Rose completed an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Past translation projects have focused on Latin American literature through an ecocritical lens.
Del Harrow lives and works in Fort Collins, CO with his wife, potter Sanam Emami and their son, William. He is a Professor at Colorado State University where he teaches Sculpture, Digital Fabrication, and Ceramics.
Contributors
Rosa Glaessner Novak is an artist and PhD student in art history based in Michigan. Her current work traces the histories of land, labor, and materials involved in the production of the built environment. Previous work has included archival research and writing on the artist and designer Edith Heath, explorations of the work of women in land art, and the creation of an artist-run space and residency program focused on the experimental use of ceramic waste. Novak holds a BFA in Ceramics from California College of the Arts.
Dr. Lynn Badia is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, and she is affiliated faculty of the CSU Energy Institute and the CSU Center for Environmental Justice.
Dr. Badia works in the fields of science studies, literary studies, environmental humanities, and energy humanities. Her work is published by a range interdisciplinary venues, such as American Quarterly, Cultural Studies, Earth’s Future, Resilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities, Open Library of the Humanities, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts among others.
Oscar Salguero is a designer, independent curator, researcher, and archivist based in Brooklyn, NY. His design work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including a commission for Stockholm Design Week 2020 as part of non:agency’s The Age of Entanglements. In Spring 2021, Salguero curated Interspecies Futures [IF] at Center for Book Arts, NY. The show marked the first survey of bookworks by emerging artists working at the intersection of speculative fiction and new interspecies possibilities. Since 2019, Salguero runs Interspecies Library, an archive project dedicated to the study and advancement of conceptual artists’ books exploring alternative interspecies futures.
John Roloff is a visual artist who works conceptually with site, process and natural systems. He is known for his ceramic works and outdoor kiln/furnace projects done from the 1970’s into the 1990’s, as well as other large-scale environmental projects, gallery installations and objects investigating geologic and natural phenomena. Based on an extensive background and ongoing research in the earth sciences, he works from geochemical and global metabolic perspectives. His work since the late 1960’s engages poetic and site-specific relationships between material, concept and performance in the domains of geology, ecology, architecture, ceramics, industry, metabolic systems and history.
Magdolene Dykstra is an Egyptian-Canadian artist based in St. Catharines, Ontario. She uses raw clay sculptures and installations to meditate on the multiplicity of the human race. Her research includes sublime philosophy, Abstract Expressionism, environmental concerns, and an interest in secular Buddhism. Magdolene received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Laura Turner Igoe is the Curator of American Art at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She specializes in American art and material culture of the long 19th century. Laura is the coeditor of A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia’s Ecology in the Cultural Imagination and she has contributed essays to the journals American Art, Panorama, Common-place, and the exhibition catalogue Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment.
Rachel Eng is a visual artist working in installation and sculpture. Her work draws from the writings of scientists, activists, and creatives, who discuss the interconnectedness of non-human life forms and humans. Her current work is interested in the agency of materials and their reciprocal impacts on human behaviors. She received her MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently lives in Carlisle, PA with her family where she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Dickinson College.
Researchers
Kate Zynda is a ceramic artist living in Fort Collins, CO. They received a BFA in Ceramics from Colorado State University. Zynda has been a studio technician at Front Range Community College and is currently building a studio practice. Their work prioritizes materiality and pinching clay to build tools and space.
Cody Cooke grew up in southwest Louisiana and graduated from Colorado State University in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in English and History with a concentration in Creative Writing. He was the director of the Opinion Desk for CSU’s affiliated student-led newspaper The Collegian, and he worked as a writing consultant for the University Writing Center. He also has experience in the environmental/construction industry and is currently a stormwater quality manager working across the Denver metro area. He lives in Glendale with his partner Alex and boxer-labrador Kai.
