Kelly Taylor Mitchell (she/her, b. 1994) is an artist and educator who lives and works in Atlanta, where she is currently a 2023-2024 Midtown Alliance Artist-in-Residence, a 2023-2024 Arts & Social Justice Fellow at Emory University, a 2023-2024 BIPOC Lyndon House Arts Foundation Fellow, and an Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College. Working across printmaking, papermaking, performance, book arts, and textiles, her current work stems from ancestral origin points in the American South and Caribbean. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, Penland School of Craft and Dieu Donne. Her work can be found in collections such as the Harvard Fine Arts Library, Duke University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Walker Art Center Library, and publications like Burnaway, Art Papers, and Hand Papermaking.

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Ashley Pastore (she/her) is an artist working in Erie, PA and is the owner of Grounded Print and Papershop. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus in Printmaking and New Media. Recently her work was displayed at Allegheny Galleries and Mirabo Press. Her work is on permanent display in Chicago’s Union Station and Cleveland’s Downtown Hilton. Her work currently examines repetitive activity, imaginary narratives and explores the impulse to live forever through the realm of physical objects.