Michael Crowder is a mixed media sculptor who exhibits across the US and internationally. His conceptually-driven sculpture often incorporates museum “art/ifacts” made of glass particles fused together in a variation of the ancient pâte de verre technique.

Amy Yoes works with painting, photography, installation, video, and sculpture.

Jerome Meadows is a sculptor who works with found objects and mixed media assemblages, large scale kinetic sculptures, and site-specific public art installations.

Jillian Conrad’s artistic practice addresses themes of materiality and intangibility. Her sculptures and works on paper look to the details of the physical world to connect the human and the universal, the visible and the invisible. Her work has been exhibited at and supported by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Bronx Museum, Devin Borden Gallery, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Artadia. Conrad’s work has been discussed in numerous publications including Artforum, Art Lies, and the New York Times. She is the Chair of the Sculpture Department at the University of Houston. While in residence at the Dora Maar House, Conrad will be developing a series of map drawings sourced from the landscape around Ménerbes.

Margo Sawyer is professor of sculpture and extended media in the department of art and history at the University of Texas, Austin. Her most celebrated works, Synchronicity of Color (also known as “the art boxes”) at Discovery Green in Houston, have become icons of the city.