Felicity Machado she/her, born Turlock, CA, USA

Felicity Machado is a multimedia artist whose work is a narrative about technology, nature, and identity. Her work takes the form of glass-ceramics objects, videos, poetry and installation to depict personal relationships with plants and nature’s cycles. Through these narratives and research, Machado aims to discuss the importance of being connected to local ecosystems, having a critical relationship with technology, and understanding one’s own perspective. To contextualize her work, she draws upon her multicultural lens, as a Brazilian-Mexican-American raised in rural California. Felicity Machado believes that it is necessary to strive for a harmonious future between technology, ecosystems, and human involvement. 

Machado received her MFA in Sculpture Dimensional Studies from Alfred University and her BA from the University of California Davis. She was recently awarded the UrbanGlass Studio Residency for 2025-26. Machado was also the Rochester Institute of Technology Glass Studio Artist Resident of 2024-25. She was featured in New Glass Review, No. 44, from Corning Museum of Glass and participated in the Momentum Intersection Program 2023 Cycle with Arts Commission and Toledo Museum of Art.

Chuchen Song
From Qingdao, China. Currently working and living in Tulsa, Oklahoma USA

Chuchen Song (B in 1995, Qingdao, China) is a glass enameling artist, who utilize an ancient glass enameling technic, called “grisaille”, to paint on glass. Her current body of work involves a series of enameled and kiln formed glass which contain symbolic imageries to talk about the experience of Chinese women in this cultural background. Her work was included in the Momentum Intersection exhibition in 2022.

Chuchen received her M.F.A. from the glass program of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2021, and her B.F.A. in design from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2017.

Charles Manion
Cincinnati, Ohio

Charlie Manion is a Midwestern artist and a McNeil Fellow at the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, where he researches the way accidents make objects meaningful. He has worked as a scientific glassblower, touring musician, and is the scenic designer for CAROL Performance Group, an experimental theater company in New York. 

His artwork, interactive sculpture-systems made from concrete, blown glass, and modified electronics, has been exhibited at Westbeth Gallery, the Design Museum of Chicago, and Millennium Park.

He was the public glass studio manager at Firebird Community Arts, a trauma-recovery nonprofit for Chicagoans injured by gun violence, before pursuing an MFA at the NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He now lives and works in Philadelphia