TINA STIPANOVIC is a multi media installation artist and a founder of AlterWork Studios. Her art explore the themes of historical authenticity, preservation and archiving. Professionally she has spent much of her career fostering growing art communities by creating opportunities for artists of all genres to make and exhibit work, network and grow.
WEBSITE: www.tinaandthewolf.com
TIM KELLY is an Astoria-based artist working in geometric abstraction and pattern making. Tim earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Fordham University in 2017 and received the college's Nemetscheker Award for excellence in architectural design. Tim joined the AW community in 2018 when he completed a 6-month residency in the space. Tim currently serves as AW’s studio manager.
DIANA ALSIP is a multi-disciplinary artist, currently focusing on printmaking and ceramics. Traditionally a photographer and an illustrator, she received her BFA in Photography in 2008, she has recently become more drawn to physical, tactile objects that one can hold. Even with the printmaking side of her work, the blocks she carves the designs into are themselves an art object.
STELLA PSILLIDES is a NYC based, Queens raised potter. She simply likes playing with clay and enjoys working on the wheel as well as handbuilding. She takes inspiration from the world around her, especially the neighborhood. Stella’s work is playful and gritty and her style has a fun, functional aesthetic. She mostly makes functional pieces that she hopes bring joy to the people that use them.
DAN STAFFORD is a visual display artist and potter. Being familiar with most art mediums he had created props and installations for Saks Fifth Avenue for 7 years and now for Nordstrom. Dan studied Fine Art and Photography at Delaware Tech, however clay is really his calling. He was a potter throughout high school and after college, he moved to NYC. It wasn't till he saw the wheels inside AlterWork Studios did his passion for pottery reignite. His pottery ranges from being functional to unique shapes, but his favorite part is his combinations in glazes.
LORIENNE SOLASKI is a mutli-disciplinary artist and teacher living in Astoria Queens. Lorienne spent three years as a woodshop apprentice and ceramic fabricator in Brooklyn, NY. She received her Masters in Art Education from RISD in 2019 and now teaches art at a public high school. Since becoming a member at Alterworks she's been exploring the interaction between glaze, illustration and wheel-thrown pottery forms.
Hailing from Staten Island, JOHN ROSE found pottery as a way to channel his stress and make friends in high school. Like many others, he only recently picked it up again as an adult. JR Ceramics tends to be a bit whimsical, often inspired by nature and the elements. Mugs and planters are his favorite items to make, often testing the limits of mixing various clay bodies and glazes.
REBECCA SHERMAN is an artist and designer based in Queens, New York. She received a BFA degree in Studio Art from New York University and an AAS degree in Communication Design from The New School/ Parsons School of Design. Her paintings feature architectural structures and transcendental spaces in an urban landscape suffused with color and illumination. Each painting smashes planes, color, and light together to compress time into one flat surface. Her artwork is designed to capture the moment and become a dual representation of our internal states and external experiences. Our perception and memory change as the space around us changes.
JACQUELINE GURGUI is from Kingston, NY but is currently based in Sunnyside, Queens and has been making ceramics since Spring of 2021. Her style is budding but she really enjoys playing with floral designs and adding handbuilt elements to her pieces. She admires simplicity, but also detail. She’s always open to experimenting and challenging herself to new techniques. She has a BA from Binghamton University, is a former film industry professional, currently works at an education nonprofit that supports high school students, and is also a photography enthusiast.
MARTA SMITH's solutions are based on unconventional strategies that draw upon vernaculars and contradictions of place and human condition. She endeavors to analyze, improve and simplify the confluence of creative processes that form objects and the built environment.