Angela Gram received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Her work has been shown throughout the United States and internationally with Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has done mural work for the American Museum of Natural History, and her paintings reside in many private collections. Angela has been accepted as an artist in residence by the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France, and by the Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation in New Jersey.

Her work has been featured online by numerous art publications such as Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Hi-Fructose, and Juxtapoz. She has also been published by Skira Rizzoli in The figure painting, drawing, and sculpture, a book showcasing figurative art by established and emerging artists. Angela currently lives and works in New Jersey.

Julia Shen is an artist from New York City, but is currently a student at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Julia has been drawing and painting since childhood, and she is now exploring other mediums, including ceramics, woodworking, and printmaking.

Notably, Julia designed and painted a mural for Stuyvesant High School in New York City and led a community mural project in Mohammedia, Morocco; additionally, her work has been exhibited in various venues in New York City, including the Metropolitan Museum and VillageOne Art Gallery.

Emma Hapner received her Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from New York Academy of Art. She is originally from Indiana, and received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Ball State University. She works primarily in oil paint on canvas to create figurative works from a female perspective.

She is reassessing classical painting through the lens of the contemporary female experience, focusing on the complexity of these women and self-expression through material- ism. Her paintings focus on women and their experiences, while appreciating beauty and femininity, from the viewpoint of a woman. She wants to explore the relationship between portraits of women and the viewer, and break away from the voyeuristic idealism that has been used to depict women throughout history. By making images of women, she wants to show the viewer their complex identities, feelings, and experiences.