Wes Sanders is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose work seeks to rethink our assumptions of the built environment. Through sculpture, installation, furniture, and exhibition design, he centers spacemaking as the primary vehicle for stimulating imagination, building community, and creating change.

Wes was born and raised in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He received a BFA from Brown University and holds a Master of Design in Exhibition and Narrative Environments from the Rhode Island School of Design. He currently lives and works in Providence, RI, and teaches at RISD as an Adjunct Professor.

Emilia Schonthal is a maker and educator from Boston, MA, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. First introduced to metalworking at Earlham College, she became fascinated with materials and processes simultaneously delicate and industrial, expressive and technical, malleable and fixed. Emilia first began to incorporate clay into her practice as a student at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME, and later as a resident artist at The Steel Yard in Providence, RI. The interwoven facets of her practice currently include jewelry, clay and metal vessels, ceramic lamps, and her work as a K-12 art teacher. Emilia received her master’s in art education from City College of New York and is inspired by her students’ moments of discovery, courage, and curiosity.