Kris Rumman
Brooklyn, NY

Kris Rumman is a Palestinian-American artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, performance, and installation, with a focus on glass. Her work explores themes of displacement, identity, and futurism, using the concept of “double vision” to critically engage with dominant narratives and expose their contradictions. From her diasporic perspective, Rumman reflects on the intersections of architecture, authority, and chance, grounding her practice in the geopolitics of her ancestors.
Viewing her practice through an Arab-Futurist lens, Rumman traces her artistic lineage to the Levant in 50 BCE, when glassblowing was first invented. Nearly two millennia later, she continues this tradition in Toledo, Ohio—the birthplace of the Studio Glass Movement—using her breath to carry forward the legacy of Palestinian glass. She earned a BFA from Bowling Green State University (2008) and an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture (2018).
Rumman’s work has been exhibited and performed across the U.S. and internationally, including at the Fine Arts Center (Colorado Springs), UrbanGlass (NYC), Temple Contemporary (Philadelphia), and the Toledo Museum of Art.
Her recognition includes the James Renwick Alliance Chrysalis Award (2024), The Velocity Fund (Andy Warhol Foundation), The Laurie Wagman Prize in Glass, and the Glass Arts Society’s Saxe Emerging Artist Award. Rumman has held residencies at Penland School of Craft (NC), Sculpture Space (NY), and Chautauqua Institution (NY). Her project Body-Building debuted at the Toledo Museum of Art and traveled to UrbanGlass for her first solo show.
Rumman currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Rebecca Arday
United States

Rebecca Arday’s work interweaves art, science, and history. Utilizing glass and other amorphous, ephemeral materials, she explores (im)permanence and (in)stability in relation to the personal and societal. Her pieces distill gigantic notions into intimate, animate, uncanny things. She holds an MFA from the Department of Art at The Ohio State University (2021) and BFA in glass from the School for American Crafts at the Rochester Institute of Technology (2008). Her work has been included in exhibitions across the United States as well as in Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. She has been invited to present lectures and give demonstrations in the United States, Denmark, and New Zealand. She has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University and summer workshops at Penland School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School. Rebecca is currently an Assistant Professor of Glass in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies and the Director of the National Casting Center Glass Studios at Alfred University in Alfred, NY.