Michelle Laxalt is a multidisciplinary artist working in ceramics, textiles, and on paper. She holds an MFA from Georgia State University and BFA from the University of Nevada, Reno (her hometown). Her abstract, biomorphic work is inspired by the notion that our bodies, like those of the animals and plants we share this planet with, are vulnerable vessels that bloom, transform, and perish. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has been an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center and Vermont Studio Center. Laxalt resides in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is a Resident Studio Artist at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. Laxalt is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Morehouse College.

Jiha Moon is from DaeGu, South Korea and currently lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida. Moon’s gestural paintings, ceramic sculpture, and installation explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. She says, “I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds.” She is taking cues from wide ranges of history of Eastern and Western art, colors and designs from popular culture, Korean temple paintings and folk art, internet emoticons and icons, and labels of products from all over the place. She often teases and changes these lexicons so that they are hard to identify yet stay in a familiar zone. 

Moon's work has been acquired by museums around the country including: The Asia Society, The High Museum of Art, The Mint Museum of Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Renwick Gallery, and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  She is recipient of Guggenheim award and Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painter and Sculptor’s award, and her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here,” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum, has toured more than 15 museums around the country. 

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