Dan Pflueger
Office for the Arts at Harvard
"The People"
Annie M. Russell (b. 1993) is a visual artist whose practice investigates the unseen forces shaping the world. Drawing from her studies of dreams, mythology, ecology, and esoteric thought, her work merges figuration and abstraction to explore the space between material understanding and instinctual perception. Through an intuitive process, Russell works with layers of luminous pigment, allowing her compositions and forms to arise without a predetermined outcome. Her resulting work reflects the intelligence of the more-than-human world and the intricate connections that underlie existence.
Princeton Theological Seminary
"marked landscapes"
Braxton Tanner is a quirky thinker and tinkerer that calls the American deep South his home. With an educational background in landscape design and ecology from Auburn University, Braxton has established a career as a landscape architect over the past 10 years. After running his own interdisciplinary design+build studio in Austin, Texas, Braxton transitioned to Boston, Massachusetts in 2019 to work in public landscape design. As a member of the Boston Society of Landscape Architecture, Braxton has worked with award-winning firms to design urban parks, plazas, and campuses within Boston and other cities around New England. After unearthing a spiritual conviction in 2023 towards environmental restoration through eco-agriculture, Braxton is now pursuing a Masters in Theology and Ecology at the Farminary at Princeton Theological Seminary. He and his partner Craig reside in Princeton, New Jersey with their myriad of creaturely companions. After graduation from PTS, Braxton aspires to begin cultivating land that can serve as regenerative farm, art/design collective, and space for human and ecological restoration.
University of Oxford
"Archaeology," "Anatomies," and "How to Cut a Root"
Cayla's work explores the sentience of nature and the hidden intelligence of the microscopic world. She visually probes the tension between chaos and construction, inviting the viewer to consider how organic form and systems—whether microbial, architectural, or social—emerge from apparent disorder. Drawing inspiration from biofilms, fungal networks, and microbial ecosystems, she asks what it means to build or belong to a home—not as a fixed structure, but as an evolving organism shaped by both entropy and intention.
Princeton Theological Seminary
"After the Chestnut Tree"
George Alford is originally from Atlanta and is currently a student at Princeton Theological Seminary. There, he specializes in Biblical Studies with a particular focus on the letters of Paul. Before studying at Princeton Theological Seminary, he graduated from Washington and Lee University with a degree in German and Religion and taught English in Weiz, Steiermark, Austria through a Fulbright Austria program.
California Institute of Integrative Studies
"TRASHKIN"
Hollis Cato is an interdisciplinary artist and philosopher based on the Front Range of Colorado. She holds an M.A. in Ecopsychology from Naropa University, where she developed “Shadow Composting,” a Jungian-informed ecological method of engaging the unconscious through material processes. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at CIIS, researching “Trashkin”—how communing with discarded matter reveals both psychic shadow and the cosmological histories embedded in waste. Hollis works primarily with second-hand and salvaged materials through acrylic and bleach painting, sewing, printmaking, and sculpture.
TheHollyDaisy.com
St. John’s University
"Fruition: a mulberry devotional"
Michelle Cicillini is the author of Avian Aria (Alien Buddha Press), Amorance (forthcoming from Finishing Line Press), Windway (forthcoming from Fernwood Press) and Riverettes (forthcoming from Bottlecap Press). She is the editor of Moonlove Press, publishing poetry chapbooks by women. Her work can be found at Hyacinth Review, Snapdragon Journal, Drunk Monkeys, and Horse Egg Literary. She teaches English at a Catholic High School in New York where she lives with her husband and two sons. Her ongoing psalm-painting project can be found at selahseries.com
Rhode Island School of Design
"Chrysalis" and "Hole In The Wall"
Pablo V. Cazares (b. 1989) is an artist interested in realms within and places beyond. He has shown work nationally, and in 2025 was featured in Sitka Center for Art & Ecology’s Invitational at Oregon Contemporary. Pablo has been awarded The Ford Foundation Critical Conversations Grant and the McGlassen Prize for Textile Arts. He is currently attending the Rhode Island School of Design for his MFA in Sculpture.
Yale School of the Environment
"Savanna Déjà Vu," "The Wild Bath" and "Catfish"
Peter VanderBloomer is a Master's of Environmental Science candidate at the Yale School of the Environment. He is from Chicago, Illinois and holds a B.S. in Marine Sciences and a minor in Philosophy from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. His thesis research investigates how indigenous agroforestry systems of the Ecuadorian Amazon influence forest ecology. He hopes that this research might inform more sustainable agriculture elsewhere in Amazonia. Peter is ultimately interested in the concept of the "cultural forest" and other such human-modified landscapes that permit biodiversity to flourish while still providing generously for the human species.
"Do we need to bring our backpacks tomorrow"
Peter Ketels Fulweiler is a New Haven based fabricator for Luckey Climbers. In his free time he makes art that focuses on internet culture, play, accessibility, public infrastructure and happiness. He loves to bike and spend time outdoors.
University of Edinburgh
"Uprooted"
Regan Stacey is the voice behind The Earthsong Project, a multidisciplinary exploration of the human-nature relationship through creative and experiential practices. Designed to invite reflection on the complexities and intimacies of being human among many life forms, her work aims to expand perspective on what it means to be human right now as we grapple with the impact of our planetary presence.
Stacey holds a BS in Biology and an MFA in Visual Studies. She is currently a graduate student at The School of Divinity at New College, University of Edinburgh, for an MSc in Philosophy, Science, and Religion.
Yale Divinity School/Yale Institute of Sacred Music
"It Takes Time"
Stephanie Ruth Roston is an interdisciplinary artist from the Midwest with roots in American modern dance, interactive theater, and film. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Belhaven University, a certificate in Urban Leadership from the Akron Leadership Foundation, and is currently pursuing graduate studies through Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music. Roston has worked with several artists, including Polyglot Children’s Theatre, Inlet Dance Theatre, Dominic Moore-Dunson, and as part of Nick Cave’s HEARD. Currently, her work is situated at the intersection of community development and environmental advocacy.
Rhode Island School of Design
“Portal” and "How a common sea snail explains the universe"
Stephanie Van Riet is an interdisciplinary artist who works through various material processes to amplify attention for the often-overlooked creatures endangered by modern lifestyles. Fascinated by how living beings sculpt the contours of our planet and develop collective intelligence through movement, she visually organizes her observations and research through sculpture, printmaking, artist books, and installation. Van Riet received her BA in Art and Anthropology from Connecticut College in New London, CT and is currently pursuing her MFA in Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI.
Lancaster University
"Hymns of Aranyani"
Varsha Manglam is an artist and PhD student at Lancaster University. Her research centres on postcolonial critiques of new materialism with a particular focus on alternative sensibilities toward the contemporary ecological crisis. She explores material dialogues as pathways for reconnecting with nature, drawing on both artistic practice and theoretical inquiry.
Dan Pflueger
Tyler Fair
Peter Miles
Joan Lavaki