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Image credit: The “Piebald” Horse, oil on canvas by Paulus Potter, c. 1650–64;
in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
(CURRENT) Summer 2019
| E. Kristin Anderson | Daniya Baiguzhayeva |
| Jennifer Bullis | Chelsea Margaret Bodnar |
| Maialise Carney | Chris Cleary |
| Juliet Cook | Dez Deshaies |
| Dante Di Stefano | Beth Gilstrap |
| Beth Gordon | E. Thomas Jones |
| Nikki Saltz | Catherine Sinow |
| Jack Somers | Donna Vorreyer |
Image credit: Rural school children. San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943.
John Vachon, courtesy of the US Library of Congress.
Spring 2019
| Pearse Anderson | Michael Bagwell |
| Kelsey Barnett | Annie Blake |
| Tamsin Blaxter | Sarah B. Boyle |
| Katherine Davis | Marlin Figgins |
| Jeannine Hall Gailey | Kristin Garth |
| Robert P. Kaye | C. Kubasta |
| Eleanor Levine | Awuor Onguru |
| Bradford Philen | Jillian M. Phillips |
| Louisa Schnaithmann | Maya Jewell Zeller |
Winter 2019
| Stacey Balkun | Ellie Black |
| Forrest Brazeal | Jane-Rebecca Cannarella |
| Alex Carolan | Todd Kaneko and Amorak Huey |
| Imran Khan | Rachel Lake |
| Mark McKain | Marshall Moore |
| Bryan D. Price | R.J. Roberts |
| Kelly R. Samuels | Scott Sweeney |
| Amélie Olaiz (translated by Toshiya Kamei) | |
Fall 2018
| Veronica Abrams | JW Burns |
| Flower Conroy | Kelly Fordon |
| Audrey Gritsman | Philip Ivory |
| David Jans | Kyra Kaisla |
| Suzanne Langlois | Jessica Lao |
| aurora linnea | Claire Younger Martin |
| Eileen Murphy | Karen Neuberg |
| Dayna Patterson | Elizabeth Vignali |
| Emma Cairns Watson | Sheila Wellehan |
| Paul Park and Laura Christensen | |
Summer 2018
| Devon Balwit | Dessa Bayrock |
| Lana Bella | Annie Blake |
| Chelsea Margaret Bodnar | Will Cordeiro |
| Theresa Senato Edwards | Avery M. Guess |
| Kay Billie Oakes | Keith Rebec |
| Andy Søbjerg | Christine Taylor |
| Kami Westhoff |
Spring 2018
| Mark Benedict | Amee Nassrene Broumand |
| Ryan Clark | Kelly Cressio-Moeller |
| Elisabeth Adwin Edwards | Kelly Gangeness |
| Jay Halsey | Julie A. Hersh |
| Sarah Lilius | Finley J. MacDonald |
| Nikoletta Nousiopoulos | Suzanne O'Connell |
| Erica Olsen | Olatunde Osinaike |
| Amanda Pampuro | Iggy Shuler |
| Zach VandeZande |
Winter 2018
| Frances Donnelly | Kristin Garth |
| Jacob Hall | Jessie Janeshek |
| Sonja Johanson | Sharon Kennedy-Nolle |
| Emily Laubham | Carlo Matos |
| Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers | Mariah Montoya |
| Louisa Muniz | Cait Powell |
| Daniel Romo | Christine Taylor |
| Annie Vitalsey | Rodd Whelpley |
| Hudson Wilding |
Fall 2017
| Isla Anderson | Devon Balwit |
| Rebecca Connors | Melissa Goode |
| Beth Gordon | Brenda Mann Hammack |
| Suzanne Langlois | Kristin LaTour |
| Alyssa Mazzoli | Martha McCollough |
| R/B Mertz | Jessica Morey-Collins |
| Alisha Mughal | Samuel Prince |
| Kyle Rackley | Rochelle Jewel Shapiro |
| Kim Suttell | Trent Walters |
| Sheila Wellehan | Emma Wenninger |
| Emily Zasada |
Summer 2017
| Kelsey Allagood | Mitchell Bergeron |
| Lanette Cadle | Lisa Schapiro Flynn |
| Nels Hanson | Jade Hurter |
| Tim Jeffreys | J.I. Kleinberg |
| Sharon Kunde | Lori Lamothe |
| Luke Marinac | Marlene Olin |
| Sarah Read | Shenandoah Sowash |
| Úrsula Starke and Jonathan Simkins |
Spring 2017
| Joy Baglio | Aaron Beaver |
| Thea De Armond | Katelyn Delvaux |
| Stacia M. Fleegal | Sonia Greenfield |
| Peter Grimes | Becca Borawski Jenkins |
| Charles Kell | Tom Mock |
| Amy Pence | Simone Person |
| Daniel M. Shapiro | Jen Stein |
| Tiffany L. Thomas | Caitlin Thomson |
| Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad | Tara Isabel Zambrano |
Winter 2017
| Melissa Atkinson Mercer | Alessandra Bava |
| Lee Blevins | Ava C. Cipri |
| Gabriel Congdon | Juliet Cook |
| Jessica Cuello | Darren C. Demaree |
| Elizabeth Evenson-Dencklau | Mathew Allan Garcia |
| Steve Gowin | Amy Lynne Holt |
| Marcia B. Loughran | Jesse Nissim |
| Anjali Ravi | William Squirrell |
| Alina Stefanescu | Theodore Ziolkowski |
| Anne Champion and Jenny Sadre-Orafai | |
Image credit: "Subway," 1934, oil on canvas
Lily Furedi (1896 - 1969)
Fall 2016
| Jasmine An | Luci Brown |
| Jackson Burgess | Genelle Chaconas |
| Edward Clarke | Lisa M. Cole |
| Flower Conroy | Carlina Duan |
| Kristen Figgins | Jennifer Fliss |
| L.S. Johnson | Jenna Kelly |
| Courtney Leigh | Ashley Mares |
| James McAdams | Erica Olsen |
| Jessy Randall | Sarah Read |
| Wolfgang Rougle | Sheila Squillante |
| Billie R. Tadros | David Walker |
| Seann F. Weir |
Summer 2016
| Mileva Anastasiadou | Stacey Balkun |
| Ryder Collins | Sheila Dong |
| Chad Frame | Jennifer Hanks |
| Janna Layton | Ginna Luck |
| Kathryn Michael McMahon | Catherine Moore |
| Lauren Page | Matt Schumacher |
| Marley Simmons Abril | Mathew Slade |
| Joe P. Squance | Kendall Steinle |
| Elizabeth Vignali | Camille-Yvette Welsch |
| Kami Westhoff | Lauren Yates |
Image credit: "Saint George and the Dragon," oil on panel
Luca Signorelli (Italian, 1445 - 1523)
Spring 2016
| Jasmine An | Maggie Blake Bailey |
| Emily Becker | Jon Boisvert |
| Vincent Louis Carrella | Chloe N. Clark |
| Carrie Cook | Chelsea Eckert |
| Melissa Eleftherion | Aidan Forster |
| Jill Hand | Rebecca Harrison |
| Suzanne Langlois | Jennifer Martelli |
| Amy Pence | Maria Pinto |
| KMA Sullivan | Kailey Tedesco |
| Nathan Tompkins | John Urbanek |
Image credit: "Flower Still Life," 1614, oil on copper.
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder [Dutch, 1573 - 1621].
Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Winter 2016
| Julie Brooks Barbour | A.E. Clark |
| Rebecca Connors | Katharine Diehl |
| Alice Doherty | Amy Friedman |
| Wendy Gist | Jennifer Givhan |
| Janae Green | Ken Haas |
| Eric Hawthorn | Jessie Janeshek |
| Jessica Lindsley | Isabel Mader |
| K. C. Mead-Brewer | T.A. Noonan |
| Jillian M. Phillips | Jen Stein |
| Mary Stone | Caitlin Thomson |
| Leah Tieger | Artress Bethany White |
Image credit: “Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs. Säugetiere –
Dritter Band.” (1900) Leipzig und Wien, Bibliographisches Institut.
Fall 2015
| Kelly Andrews | Francesca Bell |
| Sarah B. Boyle | Emily Capettini |
| Juliet Cook | Ramzi De Coster |
| Lauren Dixon | Samantha Duncan |
| Lizi Gilad | Travis Gouré |
| Sarah Gutowski | Lauren Henley |
| Soren James | Elsa M. León |
| Nate Logan | Carlo Matos |
| Jessy Randall | Ryan Reed |
| Tammy Robacker | Daniel Shapiro |
| Erin Stalcup | Sonya Vatomsky |
Summer 2015
| Deborah Bacharach | Krista Cox |
| Timothy Day | Darren C. Demaree |
| Amber Edmondson | Alicia Elkort |
| Ruth Foley | Fox Frazier-Foley |
| Jay Gershwin | Kat Giordano |
| Connie Guo | Brenda Mann Hammack |
| Jennifer Hanks | Amy Elisabeth Smith |
| Jane Huffman | Lissa Kiernan |
| Andrew Koch | Kathleen Lewis |
| Emily Stoddard |
Image credit: "Still Life with Game, Vegetables, Fruit and a Cockatoo,"
1650, oil on canvas. Adriaen van Utrecht (Flemish, 1599 - 1652).
Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Spring 2015
| Alessandra Bava | Alyse Bensel |
| Juliet Cook | Rebecca Cook |
| Christopher DiCicco | Kevin Dublin |
| Melanie Figg | C. Kubasta |
| Len Kuntz | Eleanor Levine |
| Nils Michals | Grant Gerald Miller |
| Dan Morey | Dino Parenti |
| Sean Pravica | Alison Stagner |
| Jen Stein | Sonya Vatomsky |
Image credit: "A Hare in the Forest," about 1585, oil on panel.
Hans Hoffmann (German, about 1530 - 1591/1592).
Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Winter 2015
| Allie Marini Batts | Juliet Cook and j/j hastain |
| Jessica Anne Cuello | Andrew Davie |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | Suzanne Grazyna |
| Karl MacDermott | Saytchyn Maddux-Creech |
| Rachel Patterson | Carson Pynes |
| Ian Rice | Terry Rietta |
| Caitlin Thomson | Rhiannon Thorne |
| Letitia Trent | Melissa Wiley |
| Sarah Ann Winn | Susan Yount |
| Nic Young | |
| Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko | |
Fall 2014
| Jacob Aiello | Nancy Bevilaqua |
| Callista Buchen | Flower Conroy |
| Seth Copeland | Arthur Davis |
| Darren C. Demaree | Jennifer Givhan |
| Lauren Gordon | Sara Krueger |
| Rhonda Lott | M. Mack |
| Christopher Martin | Jude Cowan Montague |
| T. A. Noonan | Annmarie O'Connell |
| Marcus Pactor | M. P. Powers |
| Dan Shapiro | Erin Elizabeth Smith |
| Donna Vorreyer | Stephen Williams |
Image credit: "Daniel in the Lion's Den" by Briton Rivière
(1872) [Public Domain], via The Athenaeum
Summer 2014
| Maureen Alsop | Mary Lou Buschi |
| Kevin Casey | Paige Clark |
| H. V. Cramond | Chris Deal |
| Risa Denenberg | Monica Drake |
| Jessie Janeshek | Zakia R. Khwaja |
| Jennifer MacBain-Stephens | Sandra Marchetti |
| Jamie O'Connell | Jessy Randall |
| Robert Shearman | Emily Slaney |
| Benjamin Smith | Richard Thomas |
| Elizabeth Vignali |
Image credit: Wondrous Wild Beasts, poster for Forepaugh & Sells Brothers (1896)
Strobridge Lithographic Co., Cincinnati [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Spring 2014
| Charles Brooks | Juliet Cook |
| Darren C. Demaree | Elizabeth Evenson-Dencklau |
| Lynsey G. | Lauren Gordon |
| Kathleen Kirk | Kristin LaTour |
| William Lemon | Jessica Leonard |
| Liz Martin | Jenean McBrearty |
| Gregg Murray | Nicole Oquendo and Mike Shier |
| Daniel M. Shapiro | James Stolen |
| Gayle Towell | Rachel Van Blankenship |
| Seann F. Weir |
Image credit: "Circe" By Wright Barker (British Painter, 1864-1941)
(Wright Barker, 1889) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Winter 2014
| Mary Lou Buschi | Chloe Clark |
| Ree Davis | Colin Dodds |
| John Grey | Anna Kovatcheva |
| Caitlin Levison McGuire | Mark McKee Jr. |
| Kristine Ong Muslim | H. L. Nelson |
| Nicole Olweean | Michael Pagán |
| Ken Poyner | Gary Sloboda |
| Katherine Vondy |
Fall 2013
| Rich Boucher | Charlene Logan Burnett |
| Lanette Cadle | Alana I. Capria |
| Bob Carlton | Kallie Falandays |
| Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick | Wei He |
| Jeff Hecker | Gabe Herron |
| W. Todd Kaneko | Jennifer MacBain-Stephens |
| Carlo Matos | Carson Pynes |
| Sarah J. Sloat | Riley Welcker |
| Dawn Wilson | Laura Madeline Wiseman |
Summer 2013
| Jessica Ankeny | Charles Brown |
| Sara Biggs Chaney | Juliet Cook and Robert Cole |
| Jessica Cory | Melissa Eleftherion |
| Lane Falcon | Stuart Gibbel |
| Amorak Huey | Rich Ives |
| Etgar Keret | Peter Tieryas Liu |
| Dennis Must | Women Write Resistance |
| David Vardeman | Laura Madeline Wiseman |
| Susan Yount |
Spring 2013
| Mia Avramut | Matthew Burnside |
| Jamez Chang and Isaac Kirkman | Jared Coffin |
| Michele Donahue | Gisella Faggi |
| Shannon Hozinec | Jessie Janeshek |
| Les Kay | Claire Kruesel |
| Court Merrigan | Kate Velguth |
| Donna Vorreyer | Liz Young |
Winter 2013
| Nicola Belte | Aimee Bender |
| Carol Berg | Sarah B. Boyle |
| Flower Conroy | Roland Goity |
| Amanda Gowin | Amelia Gray |
| Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick | Amorak Huey |
| Kyle Hemmings | Stephen Graham Jones |
| Erin Entrada Kelly | B. A. Krishna |
| Kassandra Montag | Shannon Norland |
| Brandon Rushton | Melody Sage |
| Ingrid Steblea | Robert Alan Wendeborn |
| Stephen Williams | Laura Madeline Wiseman |
Fall 2012
| Lucile Barker | Kathy Burkett |
| Scott Butterfield | Robert Campbell |
| Mary Stone Dockery | Michael Fontana |
| Shannon Hozinec | Josh Karaczewski |
| Andrew Kaufman | Adam Marek |
| Lloyd Luke | Christiana Spens |
| Caitlin Thomson | Matthew Vasiliauskus |
| Laura Madeline Wiseman | Russ Woods |
| Susan Yount |
Summer 2012
| Gary Anderson | Brandon Blackburn |
| Jon Boisvert | Juliet Cook |
| Zac B. Hancock | Crystal Hoffman |
| Kathleen Kirk | Jill Khoury |
| Lea Marshall | Adam Moorad |
| Ken Poyner | Jessy Randall |
| Daniel M. Shapiro | Teresa Tulipano |
| Jessica Tyner | Martha Vallely |
| Helen Vitoria |
Spring 2012
| C.L. Bledsoe | Hannah Craig |
| Mark DeCartaret | Amanda Gowin |
| Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick | Lauren India Henley |
| Don Hucks | Amorak Huey |
| Mike Joyce | Rebecca Loudon |
| Barton McKinley | Nils Michals |
| Tracie Morell | Jenny Morse |
| Keith Moul | Daniel Romo |
| Sarah J. Sloat | Bill Wolak |
Winter 2012
| Cristi Cain | Jeff Encke |
| Rita Feinstein | Laura Gamache |
| Cheryl Anne Gardner | L. Jordan James |
| Anne Kilfoyle | Kate LaDew |
| Dana Guthrie Martin | Fred McGavran |
| Kiara McMorris | Dustin Michael |
| Brenda Nicholas | M.P. Powers |
| Ray Succre | James Valvis |
| Rachel Van Blankenship | Kathryn Zurlo |
Fall 2011
| Taylor Altman | Margaret Bashaar |
| Eleanor Leonne Bennett | Gary Budden |
| Ruben Connell | Flower Conroy |
| Matthew Dexter | Stephanie Dickinson |
| William Doreski | Carl James Grindley |
| Ken Poyner | Misti Rainwater-Lites |
| Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson | Michelle Reale |
| Jessy Randall and Daniel M. Shapiro | |
| Craig Wallwork | |
(INAUGURAL) Summer 2011
| Lucile Barker | Leo Briones |
| Juliet Cook | Beth Coyote |
| Christine Hamm | |
| Lauren India Henley | P. Hurshell |
| Nancy Ibsen | Chenelle Milford |
| Nathan Moore | Paul Nelson |
| Meg Pokrass | Julene Tripp Weaver |
