Michael Brzozowski is an MFA graduate student at Wayne State University in the Department of Fine Art, Art History, and Design in Detroit MI. Michael was born in Midtown and recognizes Detroit as influencing his love of art. He considers himself a visual artist, educator, and storyteller. He uses drawing and painting to tell stories about the human relationship with the land. He has embraced visual art as a means to teach in public schools for the last 20-plus years. 

Drawing inspiration from aquatic and interstellar ecosystems, Michael’s practice seeks to dissolve the boundaries between seemingly disparate worlds by creating a unified narrative of place. 

Water is a central theme in his work because of its transmutable nature. He investigate the movements and rhythms of water that transform paint into a ritualistic practice reflecting the natural world's fluidity and ever-changing nature. 

Alyssa Grace Olson is a Detroit-based multimedia artist whose work navigates the realms of the oddly familiar yet otherworldly. Her practice delves into themes of spirituality, mysticism, and symbolic abstraction, while exploring the delicate interplay between control and surrender. Through enigmatic imagery and bold visual language, she invites viewers into spaces that feel both eerily familiar and deeply elusive.

She earned her BA from the University of Michigan in 2010 before honing her craft in New Orleans as a Mardi Gras float painter and detail artist. Since returning to Detroit, she has pursued her MFA at Wayne State University, where she is expected to graduate in 2025. Her work has been exhibited at Playground Detroit and The Michigan Glass Project. She was awarded the Thomas C. Rumble Fellowship in 2023 and has held a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in both 2022 and 2024.

Ross Junior Owusu is an Artist, working in ceramics, performance and mixed media. He holds a B.A in Industrial Art (Ceramic Option) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. 

Ross has been in several exhibitions including an upcoming NCECA Multicultural Fellowship exhibition; The 2024 Michigan Ceramics Biennial Exhibition and Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Michigan; memento nos: Migration and Movement in America at The Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida; The Ceramics 2024 Exhibition, Materia Gallery, Detroit;  Y’akofa: Ruptures and Renewals in Art from Ghana and Nigeria, Fayetteville Public Library, University of Arkansas;  Y’akyi nnwa: Let’s have a Conversation, Daum Museum,  Sedalia, Missouri; the Todd Art Gallery, Tennessee University. 

Ross is the 2024-2025 Thomas C. Rumble Graduate Fellowship Awardee, Wayne State University, a 2023 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Multicultural Fellowship Fellow, the 2024 Dr. Judith Temple Scholarship recipient, Arrowmont School of Art and Craft and the 2024 Pewabic Commemorative Tile award recipient. Ross was the 2023 Full Scholarship Penland recipient and the James Pearson Duffy Assistantship Awardee for both 2022 and 2023 academic years.