Alex Stadler is a multidisciplinary artist, author, illustrator, textile designer and curator. At stadler-Kahn, his hybrid gallery/design laboratory in Philadelphia, he produced numerous exhibits over a six-year period, featuring mid-career and emerging local artists and designers. Elsewhere in Philadelphia, he has curated shows at The Art Alliance, The Clay Studio and The Independence Seaport Museum, as well as a pop-up shop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, featuring work from 40 Philadelphia-based artists and designers. Stadler has written and illustrated a dozen books for children and adults, always dealing with themes of emotional intelligence and problem-solving. Stadler has created public artwork for Reading Terminal Market and Comcast Towers, and for Saks 5th Avenue’s flagship store in New York City. As a textile designer, he created his own stadler-Kahn line of scarves and blankets. He has collaborated with Todd Oldham, Whoopi Goldberg, GapKids and Comme des Garçons. Stadler holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. A longtime Philadelphia resident, he moved to Maine in late 2020.

Kinan Abou-afach is an acclaimed cellist, oud player, composer, and recipient of a Pew Fellowship in 2013. The Syrian-born musician began his musical studies at the Arabic Institute of Music in Damascus, where he eventually joined the National Syrian Symphony Orchestra and performed with the Middle Eastern Ensemble. He holds a Bachelors Degrees in cello and oud performance from the Higher Institute of Music and a Masters Degree in Cello Performance from DePaul University School of Music. As a composer, Abou-afach crafts music that is saturated with unique scales, rhythmic grooves, and improvisation-esque progressions, keeping with some traditions while sounding contemporary. He works on creating a sound based loosely on the Arabic modal traditions known as maqam, while using elements from the western traditions (Classical, Jazz, Electronic, Musique concrete). He has composed for concerts, as well as film, live theater and live visual art.

Liz Collins works fluidly between art and design, with emphasis and expertise in textile media. Embracing abstraction, optics, and extreme material contrasts, Collins explores the boundaries between painting, fiber arts and installation, intuitively laying bare expressions of energy, emotion, and the viscereality of existence. Collins has had solo exhibitions at the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Candice Madey, LMAK, BGSOD, and Heller galleries in NYC; AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA; and the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions including at the Drawing Center, ICNBoston, Leslie Lohman Museum, the New Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, MoMA, Addison Gallery, RISO Museum, September, Sargents Daughters, Kristin Hellegerde, Rossana Orlandi and many more. Collins’ awards include a USA Fellowship, a Maccoll Johnson Fellowship, Drawing Center Open Sessions, and residencies at Siena Art Institute, MacDowell, Haystack, Yaddo, and the Museum of Arts and Design. Collections include Addison Gallery, Estee Lauder, Fidelity, FIT Museum, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Museum of Arts and Design, and RISO Museum. In 2022, Collins had a solo show at Luis de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles, and a solo exhibition at Touchstones Rochdale in England guest curated by art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson.

Claire Fleury spent twenty years directing, writing and performing for theater, mainly in Europe, before moving to New York City from Amsterdam in 2011, when she started designing costumes and fashion for nightlife performers and dance companies. Fleury has created shows for Fashion Week Brooklyn, The Phluid Project, DapperO at the Brooklyn Museum, and most recently Ready to Dance, featuring Afrofuturist musical artists The Illustrious Blacks and former Warhol superstar and political poet Penny Arcade. Her first three collections were sold at Patricia Field, the eponymous shop of the Sex and the City stylist. Fleury’s work can be seen in Vogue Italia, Paper Magazine, Schon Magazine, Lucy’s Magazine, New York Times and other publications. Fleury’s vision is radically inclusive, with colors, cuts and patterns not assigned to a single gender, body type, age or season. Her studio is committed to a sustainable practice of using at least 80% of industry surplus fabrics and trims. Fleury holds a BFA from The School for New Dance Development and an MFA from DasArts (The Amsterdam School of Advanced Research in Theatre and Performing Arts), both in the Netherlands.

The Henry has served as Art Director for fashion brand and manga publisher Massive Goods. He has designed leather goods, jewelry and other accessories for Helmut Lang, Marc Jacobs, Philip Lim and Alexander Wang, and was accessories designer for As Four. The Henry has designed costumes for Academy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Anohni, among other clients. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. His studio is in New York City.