ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

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Margaret Vega

Margaret Vega taught undergraduate and graduate courses in painting, drawing, color theory, concept development, and thesis at Kendall College of Art and Design until 2022. She also taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Perugia, Italy, and Grand Valley State University. Vega has exhibited widely, including solo and group shows at Atlantic, Viridian, and Prince Street Galleries in NYC, Dacia Gallery, Artifacts, and Grand Rapids Art Museums, the American Academy in Rome, and international venues in Italy, China, and Germany. Her work is held in private, corporate, and museum collections worldwide, including the Grand Rapids Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Giovanni Valdarno. Awards include a Michigan Council for the Arts Grant, YWCA Tribute Award, and Legacy Award. Vega, represented by Dacia Gallery and Via Design, is Founding Director of SiteStudio and the Children Designing for Children initiative.

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Joyce Pommer

Joyce Pommer was born in Quincy, MA, and studied at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and the Art Institute of Boston. She has exhibited widely in solo and group shows, as well as at art fairs in New York and across the country. Her work is included in numerous private collections and was purchased by the Southwest Minnesota State University Art Museum in Marshall, MN. Her work was also included in The Language of Making: Textile Study Group of New York, Art Folio 2020 book, and Blink ADC Fine Art 2020 and 2022 catalogs. Cover art and a feature article, “Piecing the Fabrics of Art,” were published by Art Herald magazine in 2022. The AATONAU blog featured her mixed-media works in 2023. She has exhibited with Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC, and in FOCUS Art Fair NY 2025. Joyce maintains a studio in Long Island City, NY.

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Cynthia Sparrenberger

Cynthia Sparrenberger is an American mixed-media artist based in Indiana. Her art conveys satirical social commentary on the broad-ranging vulnerabilities of the human condition, with its imperfections, alienations, and existential angst. Sparrenberger works in a variety of formats, encompassing sculpture, collage, painting, photography, artist books, and film. Her solo exhibitions were featured at the Circle City Industrial Complex, Indianapolis, IN, in 2022, and at Fuchs Projects Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, in 2015. Her recent group exhibitions include the following: Art on Paper in New York, NY; Dioramas in Dialogue at the Art Cake arts organization in Brooklyn, NY; and the Outsider Art Fair at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York, NY. Sparrenberger’s creative work has been featured in Whitehot magazine, Spotlight • Contemporary Art magazine, Circle Foundation for the Arts Press (Lyon, France), Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studio Press, and in “Art in Brooklyn, Cynthia Sparrenberger” by Michael Sorgatz.

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Emily Weiskopf

Emily Weiskopf (b. Syracuse, New York) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher based in Connecticut. She received a BFA from the Hartford Art School (CT) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture (Philadelphia/Rome, Italy). Weiskopf’s work has been featured in Artnet, Gallerist NY, and The Brooklyn Rail, and has been exhibited with M. David & Co. (NY); Spring Projects (NY), Shin Gallery (NY), Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and White Columns, among others. She was nominated for the Rome Prize in 2011 and awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (2011, 2021), the Wassaic Project (2012), the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2023), and ECOCA (2024). In 2021, she was among the ReClaim Award winners in Cologne, Germany. She is currently developing a permanent public artwork for the City of Austin, Texas, scheduled to debut in Fall 2025. Weiskopf serves as Chair of the Curatorial Committee at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art and lectures at the Hartford Art School (University of Hartford).