Review Panel

Chase Folsom (b. 1983, Atlanta, GA) received his MFA in Ceramics from the University of Colorado Boulder and his BFA from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has exhibited his work in over fifty exhibitions nationally and internationally and mounted his eighth solo exhibition in 2022. His work has been exhibited most recently at Ethan Cohen Gallery (NY) and Turley Gallery (NY). He has been a resident artist at numerous residencies, including the Center for Ceramics in Berlin, Germany, The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2015, he was awarded the Turner Teaching Fellowship at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has taught at Maryland Institute College of Art, The George Washington University, Corcoran College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New Jersey City University, SUNY New Paltz, and Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives and works in Kingston, New York, where he is the co-founder/director of Headstone Gallery and Headstone Ceramic Casting.

Welancora Gallery was founded by Ivy Jones over 10 years ago. The name of the gallery is an amalgam of the names of Ivy’s parents and older brother. Welancora is located in a brownstone in Brooklyn, New York. The purpose of the gallery is to represent an intergenerational group of artists from around the world, by placing their work with individual collectors and museums, publishing scholarly catalogs, holding exhibitions and participating in international art fairs.

Margaret Malone is the author of the story collection People Like You, a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize, and selected as one of the Northwest’s “25 Books to Read Before You Die” by Powell’s Books. Her writing can be found in BOMB, The Rumpus, The Missouri Review, Paper Darts, The Masters Review, Oregon Humanities, and elsewhere. She has an M.F.A. from Randolph College’s Creative Writing Program and a B.A. in Philosophy from Cal Poly Humboldt. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she hosts Bust the Canon, an interview series and radio show on XRAY.fm dedicated to shining a light on underappreciated and overlooked writers. The recipient of grants, fellowships, and residencies from MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, Sitka Center, Literary Arts and others, Margaret mentors established and emerging writers on their individual projects in person and online.

Mónica-Ramón Ríos is a bilingual writer from Chile and, since 2010, a guest dweller in Lenapehoking. They hold a Ph.D. in Spanish and Cinema Studies and an M.A. in Literary Theory. They are the author of seven books, including the essay Látigo versus luma (2022), the short story collection Autos que se queman (2022, Cars on Fire 2020), as well as the novels Alias el Rucio (2015, forthcoming in translation 2026) and Segundos (2010). They’re currently completing the YA novel Journey to the Land of Men and the intermedial novel Máquina Espía. Their work has been published across the Americas in outlets such as Hyperallergic, LitHub, Granta in Spanish, and La tempestad. They also publish genre fiction under a pseudonym and write children’s books with their son. Ríos is the co-creator of Sangría Editora, a collective home for radical voices founded in 2008, and the co-host of The Letter podcast, which investigates the Latine and Latin American literary and artistic scene in the US. Their creative work extends to performance and installation, including A Story of the World When It is Over (2012), Una maleta blanca (2016), Paper Boat Apocalypse (2017), a choral reading, and the installations associated with Máquina Espía (ongoing). Their research and creative work have been supported by various fellowships and awards, including the NYSCA Artist Award, Juegos Literarios Gabriela Mistral, the Award for Essays in the Humanities in Chile, as well as grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Comisión Chilena de Ciencia y Tecnología.

Marcus Civin received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA in Theater from Brown University. He is Assistant Dean in the School of Art at Pratt Institute. His writing about art and interviews with artists have appeared in publications including Artforum, Art in America, Art Papers, Afterimage, Boston Art Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Camera Austria, Damn Magazine, and Maake Magazine. Poetry and short stories have appeared in The Capilano Review, Clementine, Full Bleed, Memoir Mixtapes, Mirage Period(ical), Nerve Lantern, The Paper, Urbanite, and No, Dear, among other publications. He has lectured, read, exhibited, and performed in classrooms, basements, bars, parking lots, parks, apartments, galleries, museums, and online. He is often interested in artists whose work addresses or involves politics, protest, history, community engagement, education, unusual materials, performance, text, collage, and humor. He grew up in Baltimore and appears ever-so-briefly in Prince’s last video about the city. You can find much of his writing at marcuscivinwriting.com, or on Instagram @marcuscivinwriting.

Folasade Ologundudu is a curator, podcast creator and writer, based in New York, whose practice seeks to uncover ideas related to the universal human condition. She has written art criticism, profiles, interviews, and essays for ArtForum, ARTnews, Cultured Magazine, Frieze, Photograph Magazine, among other publications. Ologundudu is also the founder of Light Work, a creative media platform rooted at the intersection of art, education, and culture. Through her podcast, Everything Is Connected, she holds conversations with artists, curators, and entrepreneurs deeply rooted in visual arts, and community building. Light Work is a US-based creative media platform at the intersection of art, education, and culture. Founded by Folasade Ologundudu, Light Work, collaborates and partners with artists, curators, academics, and creative contemporaries through engaging conversation on art, and culture, and the state of our society capturing the energy and complexities of the contemporary moment. Light Work takes a ‘community first’ approach to storytelling, archiving, and building new narratives by recognizing that culture starts in communities. Confronting the challenges our society faces in an increasingly technology-driven, resources-extracting world, Light Work uses the power of conversation and deep storytelling to develop thought-provoking intellectual conversations that spark inspiration. Through intimate conversation, engaging dialogue, and stimulating content, Light Work seeks to inspire the next generation of artists, creators, and cultural producers, to lead their best lives.

August Thompson was born and raised in the middle of nowhere, New Hampshire, before he attended middle school in West LA. After surviving California optimism, he moved to NYC for his bachelor’s, studied in Berlin, and taught English in Spain for two years. He recently received his MFA at New York University’s creative writing program as a Goldwater Fellow. His debut novel, Anyone's Ghost, releases with Penguin Press in July of 2024.