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Mark Yasenchack

Designer; Graphic Artist; Teaching Artist; Visual Artist: Painting, Sculpture; Functional Ceramic Artist

Mark Yasenchack is a ceramic and mosaic artist using texture and glaze to create depth on the surface of clay. The clay tiles, or tessera, are combined with glass and stone tiles and found elements to create mosaic forms and murals. His inspiration is as often from ancient cobbled roads as it is from formal decorative mosaics; the lines often slightly off, the color filtered through a patina of age and wear. His work is inspired by relics, especially those relics without a clear providence, their function and place lost to and in time. He prefers to experiment with clay techniques to create carved stone-like effects or using water-etching to replicate mud-dyed cloth-like imagery in clay. Despite these mixed-media techniques and inspirations his core connection is with a material he grew up playing with. The oil-based modelling clay was a constant companion, he used it to create imaginary stage sets and alien or undersea worlds, an exercising his young imagination and clumsy fingers, developing both for his career as a teaching artist.

Chris Young

Teaching Artist; Visual Artist: Painting, Sculpture

I am a big fan of acrylics. I use the mediums, paint and inks quite a bit in my work. Usually there is some texture in my work either visually done with layers, finishes and lines and/or actual texture with paper, sand, pastes and more. I also work with wire to make small sculptures. Recently I have been dabbling in mixing the two. I have a few on the drawing board and some in the beginning stages. I am really looking forward to sharing the outcomes from this new process. I can only go so long without a creative outlet of some kind. It can be about anything but the reason I paint is to free my emotions. It really helps to get lost in the process of making something. I enjoy bold colors and working with complementary combinations mostly my work comes out being impressionistic or abstract with a tattered weathered look.

Megan Young

Choreographer; Visual Artist; New Media

Megan Young presents her interdisciplinary visual arts, movement, and new media practice under the nom de guerre, MegLouise. Her body of work considers individual agency while highlighting viewers’ consent or resistance to social systems. Her arts as activism approach has been featured in Hyperallergic, The Atlantic, and on National Public Radio (NPR). Young creates interactive installations, immersive performances, and community engaged projects. Notable credits include: Open Engagement: Justice, International Symposium of Electronic Arts in Hong Kong, Ammerman Center Arts & Technology at Connecticut College, Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Arts Center, MCA Chicago, Art Souterrain, SPACES Gallery, Ohio University Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Woman Made Gallery, ARC Gallery, Glass Curtain Gallery, SiTE:Lab, Philly Fringe Festival, Junction Arts Festival Toronto, SpinOff Festival, Links Hall, Chicago Home Theater Festival, Cleveland Public Theatre, Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland Playhouse Fusion Fest, Dance in the Annex, Baldwin Wallace University, and Kent State University. Young is a recipient of two “In the Works” development residencies from the City of Chicago / Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events (DCASE) and a Greenhouse Grant from Chicago DanceMakers Forum. She has been awarded commissions by Citizen University through the Knight Foundation and by the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology’s 16th Biennial Symposium. Additional honors include two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist grants and a CAC/CPAC Creative Workforce Fellowship.

Ann Yu

Musician

Known for her “full-bodied, rich and warm tone” (Cleveland.com), twenty-two year old violinist Ann Yu has captivated audiences with her beautiful sound, sensitive musicality, and heartfelt performances, drawing inspiration from her faith and her surroundings. A native of Hudson, Ohio, her musical presence is well-known throughout the greater Northeast Ohio region as she performs in solo and chamber performances throughout the community, participates in the Cleveland Institute of Music’s intensive chamber music programs, and regularly performs with local orchestras. Festival engagements include the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the National Repertory Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra-USA, the Foulger International Music Festival, and the Credo Chamber Music Festival. She has soloed with the CIM Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and will solo once again with the CIM Orchestra as a Fall 2018 Concerto Competition winner. Ms. Yu is currently pursuing her master’s degree in violin performance studying with Jaime Laredo and Jan Sloman at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she also received her bachelor’s degree studying with William Preucil and Jaime Laredo. Her passion and interest is in chamber music and cross-disciplinary collaboration, which she hopes to pursue professionally. Besides music, Ann loves exploring the outdoors, playing soccer, cooking, and reading fashion, interior design, and food blogs.

Rachel Yurkovich

Visual Artist: Photography, Sculpture; Video

Rachel Yurkovich was born in South Carolina, but lived most of her developing years in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Czech Republic. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2014. With an interest in living things and their movement as a medium, her work often ends up as video. Rachel was granted the 2014 First Agnes Gund Traveling Award, which allowed her to travel to Chernobyl, Ukraine for filming in the Spring of 2016. Shortly after returning, Rachel had a solo exhibition on display at the ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. Her videos have been exhibited in venues such as The Sculpture Center and SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri. Her work has also been featured in film festivals such as Echofluxx 15, in Prague, Czech Republic and the Davis International Film Festival in San Francisco, California. Rachel is currently living in Cleveland, Ohio with her chickens, where she works at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

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