Department of Art

According to his faculty bio with Providence College, where he serves as a visiting assistant professor in the Art Department, Judd Schiffman is an artist who works primarily in ceramics. Schiffman's work "investigates the relationship between objects, identity, culture, and psychological inheritance." He creates ceramic objects "derived from family heirlooms, personal mementos, and historic artifacts. In the studio, he explores the simultaneous ritualization, and indifference of the souvenirs that compose an individual’s life experience."

Schiffman, who earned his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Arts from Prescott College, has exhibited his work across the country and held residencies in Rhode Island and Berlin, Germany. He has taught at Brown University Hillel, as well as the ceramics program at Harvard's Office for the Arts.

Learn more about Schiffman at his website, or see more of his work on his Instagram page.

According to her website, "Jaz Graf's recent body of work juxtaposes synthetic and raw materials, the virtual gaze with organic imprints, and satellite imagery with dust. It sets in motion, a contemporary discourse around intergenerational memory and cultural preservation."

Graf exhibits her work nationally and across the globe. She was most recently featured at the Newark Museum of Art in New Jersey, and published in the peer-reviewed journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. Graf's work has appeared in several media outlets—including amNewYork, The Jersey Journal, and World Literature Today—and on NJ PBS.

Graf, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in studio art printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Fine Arts in print media from University of Iowa, has received numerous fellowships and grants—including the West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY; two Newark Creative Catalyst Grants; and a Civil Society Institute Fellowship, from Vermont Studio Center. She served on the North American Hand Papermakers' exhibition committee, is a former vice president of Manhattan Graphics Center, and board member of ProArts Hudson County.

Learn more about Graf on her website, Instagram page, and LinkedIn profile.

According to her website, Luanda Lozano holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration from Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York, and began her printmaking career in the early 1990s at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Lozano has taught at several prestigious institutions, including Bronx River Art Center; the Center for Contemporary Prints in Norwalk, Connecticut; Pelham Art Center in New York; and Escuela de Bellas Artes in Ponce, Puerto Rico, among many others. She is a founding member of the printmaking collective Dominican York Proyecto Grafica, and in 2016 she was selected by the New York Print Club for its annual artist showcase event.

Lozano's prints are part of several prestigious collections, including the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Print Collection and Museo el Barrio in New York; Kanagawa Museum print collection in Japan; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among countless others. She currently serves as a board member of the Manhattan Graphics Center, Inc., where she previously served as co-vice president.

Learn more about Lozano on her website.

According to her website, Maria Phillips is an artist and educator based in Seattle, Washington. Her work "is a manifestation of the overlap between home and studio. Attuned to the inconspicuous beauty awaiting in the random encounters and habitual rhythms of the domestic space, Phillips leverages these observations into work that considers experience as material, whether wearable, sculptural, or some place in between."

In addition to her studio practice, Phillips—a native of St. Louis, Missouri—lectures widely, serves as a guest critic, and teaches workshops at various programs throughout the country. She received her BA from Loyola University in New Orleans and her MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle. Her work is included in several museum collections (including the Museum of Art and Design New York, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Tacoma Art Museum) as well as numerous private collections. Her work has been published in The Art of Enameling, 1000 Rings and 500 Brooches, and The Penland Book of Jewelry in which she wrote a chapter on the process of electroforming. Phillips recently won the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence for her work in the Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial.

Learn more about Phillips at her website.