Page Burch runs the sculpture studios at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, previously serving as a Senior Lecturer of Sculpture and the Master Craftsman program coordinator at Kennesaw State University. He received his BFA in Studio Art - Sculpture from Georgia Southern University in 2007, an MA in Sculpture from SCAD-Atlanta in 2009, and an MFA in Sculpture from SCAD-Atlanta in 2014, because everyone needs three degrees and crushing debt. He is trained in foundry, fine woodworking, and metal fabrication. He prefers wooden patterns, cupolettes, botting with a stick, and believes
that folks who make IPAs are too lazy to make good beer. He is currently exploring digital technology in the foundry process. His spirit tool is a 1” Stanley Sweetheart 750 socket chisel.

Stacey Holloway received her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2009, her BFA from Herron School of Art and Design/IUPUI in 2006, and has been living and working in
Birmingham, Alabama since 2013. She currently serves as the Associate Professor of Sculpture
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In addition to teaching, Holloway is an active
national mixed media artist, sculptor, and fabricator that works within a variety of media including drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and interactivity. Through the exploration of storytelling and ethology, she creates work that communicate a universal societal connectivity. Holloway has received distinguished awards such as the 2021 Visual Arts Fellowship through
the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the 2017 SECAC Artist’s Fellowship, and the 2010
Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship through the Central Indiana Community Foundation
in Indianapolis.

Virginia Elliott is a sculptor, weaver, and mold maker, whose process-driven practice primarily centers around handwoven textiles and cast iron. She received her BFA from the University of Cincinnati and has worked with a number of production studios, art non-profit programs, and sculpture parks in the south and midwest including Rookwood Pottery, Josephine Sculpture Park, Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum, and Mid-south Sculpture Alliance. In 2021 Elliott completed a Visiting Artist Residency at Sloss Furnaces, where she now serves as the Metal Arts Director.

Robin Baker is an artist and educator working in Oklahoma. My work explores the connection
between civilization and the planet. Through juxtaposition of human and natural forms using industrial and natural materials, He investigates this disconnection and add to the conversation about the destruction necessary to sustain the industrial way of life. Baker is
part of Green A Studios, a collaborative project with his spouse Christyn Overstake. They
create works elucidating the human actions causing the current mass extinction crisis as well as efforts to mitigate humanity’s effect on planetary biodiversity. Baker has shown, given talks, and taught workshops throughout the United States, and is currently Teaching Assistant Professor of Art at Oklahoma State University.

Cecelia Moseley is a mixed media artist from Meridian, Mississippi, whose work explores language through material and form. She earned her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Mississippi in 2020 and her MFA from Louisiana State University in 2024. Now based in Birmingham, AL, she creates dynamic installations that examine language, perception, and cognitive experience. Over the past five years, Moseley’s public installations and permanent sculptures have been featured across the region in Meridian, Oxford, Cleveland, and Hattiesburg, MS; Rosemary Beach, FL; Alpharetta and Macon, GA; and Decatur, IN. She works with a diverse range of materials—including metal, acrylic, paper, ceramics, styrofoam, light, and vinyl—using them to visually articulate the nuances of language and understanding.

Emma Quintana is the Digital Fabrication Coordinator and Professor at the University of Tampa. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Penn State University and an MEd from Portland State University in Higher Art Education, researching equity within traditional 3D and Digital Art Studio environments. Quintana’s studio and pedagogy combines critical and professional practice, collaborative social engagement, and transdisciplinary exploration. She recently contributed to Materials and Processes: Turning Points; Pedagogies in Studio Art Education, which was published through the Columbia University Press. Quintana worked as an ornamental iron worker before attending grad school and she often combines digital and traditional making. Her immersive sculptural interactive AI installation was recently included in the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale and demonstrates her fascination with space, material, and technology, 

Kaleigh is a Chicago-based Artist, working primarily in cast Iron, Bronze, and Glass. She draws inspiration from her coastal hometown Destin, Florida, and the movement of the ocean in correlation with human emotions. She moved to Chicago in 2015 and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio, from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. For seven years after graduating SAIC in 2017 Kaleigh worked as a Glass and Metal Artisan, at a Glass Shop and Bronze Foundry called West Supply, in
Chicago. In January of 2023 she began taking Acting and Improv classes at The Second City Training Center in Chicago. Since then she has performed with various ensembles and on several different stages throughout the city. She is a member of the ensemble
Yes, Ahhh! And, is currently in the Grad Revue program at the Second City. Kaleigh’s current journey as an Artist is both in the Visual and Performing Arts and how they influence and give creative energy to one another. Acting has become a main source of Kaleigh’s artistic expression and she looks forward to the future of this creative journey exploring that inspiration.

Jackie Fischer born & raised on Long Island challenges the conventional idea of "The American Dream" through her diverse range of sculptures & installations. Her work manifests itself in the form of playful & whimsical sculptures featuring tongue-in-cheek dark humor. Fischer received her BFA from Alfred University in 2018 where she studied ceramics, foundry, and psychology. Presently located in the Catskills,  Fischer works full-time as a Sales Manager & Marketing Director for a ceramic equipment manufacturer. After hours she teaches ceramic sculpture part-time at two non-profits in the Hudson Valley. Fischer has held a handful of artist residencies including Salem Art Works, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Chesterwood, Berkshire Art Center & soon Women's Studio Workshop. While she doesn't currently have access to a foundry she recently picked up silversmithing & started casting silver in her home studio.

Erika Ann McIlnay is an artist and educator working in Dallas, Texas.  She is currently working at Collin College Wylie Campus as the Art and Music Coordinator. Prior to that she was an Adjunct Instructor at Collin College Plano Campus. Even though she is living and working in Texas her heart is still in the place she was born and raised; Illinois. She received her BFA from Northern Illinois University, and her MFA from Texas A&M Corpus Christi, both of her degrees have an emphasis in Sculpture and Studio Art. She has been casting iron for over fourteen years and is excited to be participating in NCCCIAP as a Co-Deputy Director.  

Rainey Rawles is an Atlanta based artist who explores the relationship between humor and the macabre within her sculptural work. She is currently the Preparator of Fabrications at the High Museum of Art, where she builds casework and installs a never-ending rotation of exhibitions. She received a BFA in drawing and painting from Kennesaw State University, where she also studied woodworking and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Mason Fine Art, Kibbee Gallery, and OZ Magazine, and is featured in private collections throughout Georgia. She spends the majority of her free time cross stitching while watching horror movies.

Sam Horowitz is a futurist, mad scientist, and Assistant Professor at Rowan University. Horowitz has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the US, and earned degrees from Alfred University (MFA, ‘20) and Bard College (BA, ‘10). Horowitz has held a number of artist residencies, including stays at Salem Art Works (NY), on Governors Island (NYC),  and at Sloss Furnaces (AL), where he also served as Union Shop Steward. He has been teaching for RISD’s Continuing Education Department since 2023.

Within Horowitz’s work, concepts of geology, state change, and philosophy merge to question perspective and identity. In order to allow intrinsic and native qualities of a given material to surface within a piece, he employs aleatoric and iterative processes. Through alchemical translation and community action, he presents possible futures, connects current trends, and fabricates past histories. These refractions are intended to provoke change, and to assist in broadening our perspectives.

Mary Beck Rodee was born and raised just north of Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated with a BFA from Kennesaw State University in 2021 with a sculpture concentration, focusing mainly on foundry, metal work, and ceramics. After completing her degree, she went on to work for several local artists. She currently works as the Studio Coordinator at her alma mater.

Misa Yo was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. She is a current BFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago focusing on sculpture with an anticipated graduation date of May 2025. Yo is an interdisciplinary artist who mainly works in cast iron and bronze, ceramics, and fibers, as well as glass, metal, neon, and fashion. She pushes the boundaries of materiality and creates interactive installations that make people smile. Yo sees the beauty in how time and audience experience completes the artwork as a whole. She plans to pursue an MFA to further explore the connection art can make in different communities and collaborate
with different industries and age groups. She participated in several group exhibitions throughout the past few years and had her first solo exhibition in 2019 Soho Art Education
Center in Taipei. Her most recent solo exhibition is at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this November. Outside of the studio, she enjoys skiing, electric unicycling, and trapeze. Misa loves the foundry family and is excited to take on the role of Co-Deputy Director of Exhibitions for NCCCIAP 2025.

Ivan is an artist and educator who’s main purpose in life is to help people make things that look cool.

After bouncing around colleges in the San Francisco bay area and Charleston, SC, he was awarded an undergraduate degree in studio art with an emphasis in sculpture after also completing a few lesser diplomas and certifications in industrial maintenance, machine, and welding technologies. Outside of his academic training, he has journey-level recognition as a Foundry Patternmaker from the California Department of Industrial Relations and the International Association of Machinists (IAM) following an 8,000 hour apprenticeship at a cupola iron casting plant in Oakland, CA. As a result, he’s achieved a well rounded skillset working with building materials and tooling while furthering his art practice and professional studio operations, manufacturing, and industrial arts faculty roles.
 
Between attempts at art making, Ivan manages the fabrication shops at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in addition to his role as Foundry Department Head at The Crucible in Oakland, CA. 

Holly Kelly earned her M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2019 and her B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in 2013. She is the Woodshop Coordinator for the Art, Film, and Visual Studies Department at Harvard University. Kelly has worked multiple creative jobs, including bronze foundry, artist studio assistant, artist office assistant, studio manager, fabricator, and art installer. All of it has influenced her studio practice and research. Her artwork explores ordinary and mundane objects and space. She transforms, documents, and presents these everyday things from a different or altered perspective. Kelly has shown work across the United States and received recognition from the International Sculpture Center and Mid-South Sculpture Alliance.

Dave Matson was introduced to the art of casting metals at Sloss Furnaces while earning a BA from UAB around the turn of the millennium. He happily remains a student of the process to this day. He has also worked in the architectural metal restoration and preservation industry, working on many high-profile landmarks around the country. This led to him being invited to participate as a guest lecturer at Columbia University. His love of the community atmosphere and the spirit of collaboration has had a tremendous impact on his dedication to the medium. “I love to see what other artists are working on and I am always amazed at the new ideas people want to bring into the world. Being an artist is often exploring the relationship with yourself but it does not have to be a solitary pursuit. I find it very fulfilling to witness the development of creatives. We lift each other up, it gives me hope.” 

Allison Denny was born in Independence, KY. She graduated from Western Kentucky University, holding  a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and a Bachelor of Arts in Ceramics. Her work explores different aspects of the human condition, such as mental illness and interconnection with others. She completed three internship tours at Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in 2018, 2019, and 2021. Her goal is to pursue a Master of Fine Arts further exploring sculptural mediums.

Originally from San Diego, California, Kayle Hatfield is a Minneapolis-based sculptor. She earned a BFA and a BA in psychology from Alfred University in 2024. She is currently working as a program assistant at NE Sculpture | Gallery Factory and a gallery installer at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Outside of work, she is an emerging mixed media artist who works primarily in cast metal and ceramics. Kayle’s work explores the idea of play inside the gallery space, inviting her viewers to engage with her work tactilely and playfully. She hopes to pursue her MFA in the future to push the limits of her current practice. 

Christyn Overstake is a multi-disciplinary artist. They work primarily in metal foundry and fabrication processes, producing an evolving series of experimental, conceptual objects. Overstake also works in installation, digital media, and printmaking, and has an ongoing collaboration with their spouse exploring biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. Their background as a certified welder/fabricator in manufacturing informs their material and process decisions, as well as their conceptual and philosophical frameworks. Their work explores themes related to work, labor, place and impermanence, nature and ecology, and the impacts of labor on the biosphere. They received a BFA in sculpture from Northern Arizona
University, and MFA in sculpture from Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi. They are currently Assistant Professor of Art at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and they serve on the Board of Directors of the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. Their work has been shown and collected in galleries, museums, and public sculpture walks across the United States and internationally.