Justin Richel’s sculptural paintings challenge traditional ideas of the painted surface by combining illusion, materiality, and three-dimensional form. Through his unique process of building objects from wood, canvas, and paint, Richel explores perception, trickster mythologies, and the relationship between artifice and reality.

Lyz Wendland is a visual artist based in the Twin Cities whose mixed-media paintings and paper installations explore fragmentation, healing, and transformation. Through her practice, Wendland reshapes lived experiences of trauma into a visual language that reflects resilience, strength, and the possibility of beauty emerging from what was once broken.

Alyson Khan is a painter whose geometric abstractions explore transformation, perception, and symbolic space through the quiet narrative of the psyche. Drawing from ritual practice, architecture, design, and esoteric symbolism, Khan creates layered compositions that examine protection, transcendence, and the relationship between inner and outer worlds.

Discover the artistic journey of Lynn Weiler Liverton, an accomplished sculptor whose work bridges the gap between portrait commissions and large-scale figurative memorials. With a passion for capturing emotional depth through bronze and clay, Liverton reflects on how her life experiences, research, and connections with the community shape her artistic practice. Learn about her ambitious projects, such as United by Sacrifice, and her belief in the power of art to memorialize people and events.