CURATORS:

Olivia Hiester is a painter and printmaker born and raised in West Philadelphia. She will graduate with a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2025, where she is a recipient of the Magiure Artistic Excellence Scholarship, the Samuel David

Memorial Prize, the Color Woodcut Purchase Prize, the Thouron Prize, the Louis B. Sloan Prize, and the Eleanor S. Gray Prize. Olivia has twice attended the Mount Gretna School of Art’s summer intensive program and was awarded the Lois and Charles X. Carlson Landscape Painting Residency. She holds a Barnes-DeMazia Certificate from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.

Liam Murphy-Torres is a Philadelphia based draftsman, painter, teacher, and independent curator. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he received the Packard Drawing Prize, The Irma H. Cook Prize, The August Cook Prize, and the Daniel Garber Prize for Excellence in Drawing. He holds a Barnes-DeMazia Certificate in Art History and Aesthetics, and studied painting at the Art Students League of New York and the Mount Gretna School of Art.