Abigail Regner (she/her) is a ceramic artist and educator based in Manhattan, New York. She earned her BFA in ceramics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2019. Over the past five years, Abigail has taught workshops in hand building, wheel throwing, nerikomi, and luster firing at various studios throughout NYC. 

Her studio practice revolves around creating abstract sculptural forms using hand building and wheel throwing techniques. She combines and manipulates these shapes by hand to construct composite forms with a blend of alien, futuristic, and archaic features. Through her ceramics, Abigail aims to foster community and explore her identity in relation to those who came before her.

HK merges her interests in climate adaptation and environmental justice with a focus on ceramics as a channel for transformational change. Building on research completed during her time in Columbia GSAPP’s Urban Planning program, she teaches a course called Imagining Climate Futures at SVA’s Products of Design Graduate program, while also expanding her ceramics practice. She is most interested in the ways in which climate change demands a shift in our perception of the future, and how those shifts influence the way we plan, communicate and relate to other beings in our interconnected world. She began these explorations after a 20+ year technology and design career, where she worked on projects that helped employees communicate and collaborate more effectively with customers and with each other. 

Mariya is a researcher, educator, and trained photographer. Her interest in human behavior at the individual and social levels is the catalyst for her work in technology, design, urbanism, and the arts. Her interest lies in understanding how the relationships between individual choice and broader social rules/policies/regulations impact our built environment. She has worked in the technology sector as a researcher and designer to build products in the health and education space, a photographer + assistant, and an instructor of UX Research at Pratt Institute.

She earned her B.A. in Visual Arts from Northeastern University, M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia GSAPP and is pursuing a Masters in Cognitive/Social Psychology.

Jill Sigman is an interdisciplinary artist and agent of change whose work exists at the intersection of dance, visual art, and social practice. She choreographs with bodies and materials. Sigman helps us to envision a future in which we re-connect with the natural world and each other in meaningful and empathic ways. She has built 12 huts out of trash in different parts of the world; was the first Gibney Dance Community Action Artist in Residence; has been in residence at Movement Research, Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology (Mexico), The Rauschenberg Residency, MANCC and the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research at NYU; and is currently a Creative Campus Fellow at Wesleyan University. She grew up in Brooklyn.