Erica Podwoiski’s work invites viewers into quiet, contemplative moments with the natural world. Using cyanotype, one of the oldest forms of camera-less photography, she combines drawing with found objects to capture life at a standstill. Her pieces reflect on the cycles of seasons, decay and renewal, and the subtle beauty of ephemeral life.

Lyubava Kroll’s work merges art, design, and sustainability to examine how material culture and consumption shape our world. Using surrealist-inspired imagery, repurposed materials, and layered visual techniques, she explores ecological disruption, seasonal transformation, and resilience. Winter Fractured invites viewers to see winter as an active, transitional state where vulnerability and recovery coexist, encouraging reflection on our relationship to nature and place.

Jana Astanov’s art spans performance, installation, photography, sound, and writing, creating immersive experiences that connect audiences to ancestral memory, ritual, and the cosmos. Drawing on trance, astrology, and Slavic and Baltic folk traditions, her work invites participants into ceremonial spaces where art becomes a conduit for spiritual inquiry, relational healing, and collective transformation.

In this evocative feature, Tiara Knutson merges the macabre with elements of nature, creating sculptural works that honor both death and renewal. Drawing from personal experience and a deep fascination with the afterlife, her pieces invite viewers to reconsider the beauty within life’s inevitable cycles.

In this contemplative feature, Nancy L. McCourt examines aging as both a personal and cultural experience, questioning societal norms while drawing inspiration from nature’s cycles. Her reflections embrace the realities of time, mortality, and what it means to live with intention in life’s later seasons.

Christina Voytko, a Northern California–based mixed-media artist, transforms cyanotypes, watercolor, and ink into luminous reflections on nature, folklore, and the subtle magic of everyday life. Her Winter Solstice series celebrates the quiet threshold of the season, inviting viewers to pause, notice, and reconnect with the enduring cycles of light and growth.

Megan Hyde is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist whose work traverses performance, sculpture, video, and installation. Drawing on dreams, memories, and somatic responses, her practice examines transformation, grief, and desire, creating spaces where binaries dissolve and viewers can experience the connections between micro and macro realities. Her immersive projects invite reflection on ways of being outside the frameworks of Western capitalism.

Cecil Ybanez bridges worlds—geographically, culturally, and creatively. Working with polymer air-dry clay, found objects, and everyday materials, his mixed media pieces explore translucence, lightness, and layered perspectives. Each work invites viewers to reflect on memory, perception, and the complexity of contemporary life, offering moments of pause, insight, and subtle illumination.

Colleen Cunningham’s paper collages are a mesmerizing fusion of impulse, control, and layered consciousness. Drawing from myriad sources, her baroque compositions explore the relationships between seemingly disparate elements, transforming space and narrative into psychedelic, cohesive dreamscapes. Each piece invites viewers to linger, uncovering the intricate layers of meaning embedded in her waking visions.

Audrey Bialke transforms historical and natural imagery into intimate oil paintings where animals, antiques, and pastoral landscapes meet magical narratives. With meticulously detailed borders and intuitive color choices, her work invites reflection on memory, connection, and the non-linear flow of time. Explore how Bialke’s practice merges folk art, Illuminated Manuscript references, and ecological storytelling to reveal the hidden narratives of our world.

Based in Joshua Tree on unceded Cohuilla/Serrano land, Corinna Rosella creates immersive works that blend analog photography, collage, and pressed flora. Their art examines grief, ecological awareness, magic, and ancestral connections, inviting viewers to witness unseen rituals, cycles of death and rebirth, and the quiet power of transformation in everyday life.

Amy Handy, the creative force behind The Alchemist’s Lair, combines paint, old photographs, mosaics, and found objects into richly layered mixed media collages. Each piece is finished with resin, evoking the feeling of being preserved in time like a fossil in amber. Drawing on her experiences as a costume designer, pottery studio owner, and freelance editor, Handy transforms her multidisciplinary background into artworks that are simultaneously vibrant, mysterious, and deeply evocative. She exhibits widely in Queens, New York, and is preparing for an upcoming show at Maple Grove Cemetery’s cultural center.

Yula Bulanov, known as Ulien, works intuitively with acrylic on canvas to explore the meeting point between inner and outer worlds. Her meditative paintings balance light and shadow, stillness and renewal, offering viewers a contemplative space to reflect on transformation, harmony, and the subtle language of the soul.

Minka Sicklinger transforms the everyday into the magical through hand-drawn illustrations, tattoos, and object-based work. Influenced by anthropology, ritual, and ancestral memory, her art navigates the spaces between figure, form, and symbolism. Every piece invites viewers to connect with fleeting moments, hidden gestures, and stories left behind by those who came before.

Deema Alghunaim (b. 1984, Kuwait) merges architecture, performance, and visual art to explore the tension between language and land. Her interdisciplinary practice uses site-specific performance, watercolor, and improvised methods to document and reimagine contemporary landscapes and human interaction within them. Alghunaim invites viewers to witness spaces of memory, transience, and possibility.

Trish Tillman creates immersive mixed-media works that bring memory, identity, and social rituals into physical form. Drawing on childhood play, nightlife aesthetics, and DIY activist spaces, her art combines stretched leather, shiny embellishments, and figurative gestures to explore how we perform identity and navigate social hierarchies. Her work balances critique, humor, and visual allure, inviting viewers to reconsider the connections between appearance, power, and personal expression.

Andrea Mitchell (b. 1973, Massachusetts) is a New York City–based multimedia artist whose work investigates the unseen realms shaping perception and consciousness. Working with collage, watercolor, stained glass, and mixed media, Mitchell uses color, sacred geometry, and ritual-based processes to create art that invites deeper states of awareness, embodiment, and presence. Her practice reflects a dialogue between nature, memory, and multidimensional energy, offering viewers a quiet space to pause, sense, and reflect.

Christine Beals’ work invites viewers into a meditative space where color, form, and energy converge. Drawing on her background in antiques and furniture restoration, she transforms wood and thick acrylic into layered compositions that celebrate ancestry, nature, and intuition. Each piece offers a moment of grounding and quiet reflection, revealing beauty and meaning within complexity.

Kerry Krogstad’s latest series with The Meta Muse invites viewers into a liminal space between endings and beginnings. Through hand-cut collage, digital compositing, and symbolic imagery of mirrors, ritual, and cosmic landscapes, her work illuminates the quiet moments of introspection and transformation that emerge when darkness is met with reverence rather than fear.

Clare Kim’s work celebrates curiosity, wonder, and the small moments that weave us together. Working across drawing, painting, and ceramics, she brings intuition, memory, and playful exploration into her layered pieces. From solo exhibitions at Chinatown Soup to group shows across Brooklyn and beyond, her art invites viewers to slow down, reflect, and connect with the subtle magic around us.