Bethany Rusen draws on a wide variety of interests, materials, theories, and personal histories to construct her mixed media site-responsive sculptural objects. Her work seeks to explore the visceral and emotional aspects of body experience.
Rusen graduated with a BFA from Tyler School of Art in 2003 and earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in 2010. Her work has been exhibited nationally at a variety of venues, including Texas Tech University, Boston University and Concordia University in Minnesota. She is currently the ceramics studio manager at Main Line Art Center in Haverford, PA.
A. M. Martens is a sculptural ceramics and installation-based artist who was raised in South Dakota.
She currently lives in Chicago and works as the ceramics studio coordinator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Martens started working with clay in 1998, making functional ware. In 2000, she began focusing on the sculptural aspect of the medium.
After earning her BFA in 2003 from Minnesota State University, Mankato, she studied at Penland School of Crafts and at the University of Tennessee. In 2006, Martens returned to Minnesota State University, where she began to explore the installation art form and received an MA in 2008, then went on to receive an MFA at Michigan State University in 2011. Since then, she has had several solo exhibitions, numerous group shows, and was the Artist in Residence at Kansas State University.
