Cecelia Kane

Celebrated fiber and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia, Cane received her Masters of Fine Arts from Georgia University and was recently featured in FiberArts magazine for her solo show, "Heads," at the Sycamore Palace Gallery in Atlanta. She was a studio artist at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center and The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, GA for several years. Kane recently was hosted by Savannah College of Art and Design as a guest lecturer in alternative media. She is also the creator of "The Hand-to-Hand Project" an exhibition shown in Buffalo, New York, Flagstaff, Arizona, and Brookline, Massachusetts among other places. More at www.ceceliakane.com

Loren Schwerd

Loren Schwerd is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Louisiana State University. Her sculptures, installations, videos and costumes been exhibited nationally. Recent exhibitions include: Thresholds: Expressions of Art and Spirituality, traveling exhibition curated by Eleanor Heartney, Homegrown Southeast at the Southeastern Contemporary Art Center in Winston-Salem, NC , Multiplicity, at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, OH and the Saltine Biennial at the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile AL., and the Penland Gallery, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC. Upcoming exhibitions are scheduled at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, The Dana Women's Artist Series at Rutgers University, and The Halsey Institute, in Charleston, SC.Her current project, Mourning Portrait, will be featured in the October 2008 Issue of FiberArts magazine. More at www.lorenschwerd.com