Anna Lehner (They/Them)

Anna Lehner is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of art and structural geology.

In 2019, Lehner received a MA/MFA in Glass at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a graduate associate to the Center for Culture, History and Environment within the Nelson Institute. In 2016 received a BFA in 3D Fine Art and a BA in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Lehner has received multiple awards including a Fulbright Graduate Research Award New Zealand, Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award, and included in professional publications such as New Glass Review of the Corning Museum of Glass. Lehner is currently the Executive Director at Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts in Minneapolis, MN. 

Anna Lehner

Jaida Grey Eagle (She/Her)

Jaida Grey Eagle is an Oglala Lakota artist, currently located in St. Paul, MN. Jaida is a photojournalist, producer, beadwork artist, and writer. She is a member of the Women’s Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and 400 Years Project. She holds her Bachelors of Fine Arts emphasizing in Fine Art Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Jaida Grey Eagle

Dahn Gim (She/Her)

Identifying herself as a “forever foreigner”, Dahn Gim embraces the concept of hybridity in her material and exploratory endeavors. This process often involves delving into the depths of uncomfortable emotions, such as vulnerability, displacement, isolation, and personal trauma from both past and present experiences. Employing a diverse range of materials, Gim immerses herself in her creative work and encounters unexpected and whimsical outcomes that possess an intriguing blend of the unforeseen, absurd, and uncanny. Her recent studio practice sees water as a metaphor for the intricate nature of women's bodies, encompassing themes that mirror the cyclic aspects of life itself. 

Gim completed her MFA at UCLA and has exhibited her works at international venues such as Somerset House, UK; ifa-laboratory, BE; Post Territory Ujeongguk, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul; Rabindranath Tagore Centre, India; Steve Turner Gallery, AA|LA, Barnsdall Art Gallery, US; and international art festivals including Currents New Media, Santa Fe; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Other Places Art Fair, Battery Leary-Merriam / Angels Gate Cultural Center, Now Instant Image Hall and LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, US; Art Souterrain in Montreal, CA, and Now Play This at Somerset House, UK. Gim was born in South Korea, raised in Canada and now lives and works in the United States.

Dahn Gim

Ivonne Yáñez (She/Her) 

Ivonne Yáñez is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Mexico City working between soft sculpture, installation, illustration, and painting who utilizes dreams as the medium to represent an ephemeral view of reality. Yáñez explores the subjects of dreams and surrealism via different mediums, ranging from watercolor painting to installation art and soft sculpture. Over the past 18 months of her MFA journey, Yáñez found it interesting how the initial watercolor paintings inform the sculptures and vice versa; recently Yáñez has been interested in producing pieces that create a common thread between the content of my paintings and the texture of the material in her sculptures. Yáñez combines her past training as a fashion designer with sculpture due to the three-dimensionality of the human shape and the fine art process.

In her practice, Yáñez amplifies the disproportions that can be experienced while dreaming, blending memories and traditional objects that belong to the traditional Mexican culture such as the Milagros and Floreros de Tlaquepaque. Yáñez takes references from dreams and superstitions she heard since she was a kid. Moreover, her work has taken an introspective and emotional charge. It engages themes like memory and archival imagery in atemporal moments when the present meets the past to be situated in the same story.

Ivonne Yáñez