Olaniyi was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He earned his first BSC Degree in Biochemistry from the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta Nigeria (1991), Going on to study fine and Applied Art at Institute of Textile Technology Arts & Design Lagos (1995), He now lives and work in Pflugerville, Texas. Olaniyi is a recipient of Commissioned Palabras – Words sculpture for City of Desoto, Knowledge is power sculpture for City of Pflugerville Tx 2023, AR- Rashid sculpture for Travis County Plaza of Civil & Family court Austin 2022, ArtPrize installation artist honorary mentioned Grand Rapids MI, Contemporary Black art award, Grand Rapids MI 2021, TEMPO 21 City of Austin 2021, Red bull Arts, CERF+ 2020, Foundation for contemporary arts emergency grants 2021, 2020 & 2019, The Otis & Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant Award From DMA 2019, E 51st Art in public space 2019, CORE Funding 2018, the Innovative Artist Award from (MAAA / NEA) 2017, Pollock Krasner Foundation 2016/17 & 2011, Santo Foundation grant 2015, and Commonwealth Connection Award UK 2011. Olaniyi has been awarded residency in The McColl Center. NC, The McKinney International art & design Residency. IN, Virginia center for the creative Arts. VA, Coldhollow sculpture park. VT, 2023, The Pro Helvetica & TADA Residency Switzerland 2022, Facebook AIR in Austin, Crosstown Art 2018 & 19, Residency at ISCP NY 2016/17, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art 2015, UT in Austin 2015, Santa Fe Art Institute 2015, Hot box Austin TX 2014, Centraltrak Dallas 2013, Triangle Art Association NY 2012, Vytlacil of Art Students League NY, Vermont studio Center 2011, Art at the Heart Award 2016 & 17 Australia, Sacatar Instituto Brazil 2015, Kiosko Gallery Bolivia 2014, John Muafangejo Art Center Namibia 2013, Nafasi Art Space Tanzania 2012, Tupelo / Bag Factory South Africa 2012, Nirox Projects Space South Africa 2012, Thami Mnyele Foundation The Netherlands 2010.

Danville Chadbourne (b.1949 Bryan, TX) is an American sculptor who works in a range of materials and formats, unified by a distinctive handling of forms and primal symbol imagery. He earned a BFA in 1971 Sam Houston State University and a MFA in 1973 from Texas Tech University. After teaching studio art and art history at the college level for 17 years at various institutions, Chadbourne quit teaching 1989 to devote himself full-time to his art. He has exhibited extensively at both state and national levels, including over 100 one-person exhibitions. His work is included in numerous private and public collections. Chadbourne’s work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Ceramics Monthly and other publications, including The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists (Craig Bunch, Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2016), Surface Decoration: Finishing Techniques (Anderson Turner, American Ceramic Society, 2011) and Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists (Nan Cuba, Riley Robinson, Trinity University Press, 2008.) International residencies include ArtSpace India in Calcutta, India which culminated in exhibitions in Calcutta and Delhi; and Atelierhaus Hilmsen in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Chadbourne has been the recipient of the Dozier Travel Grant and, in 2019 and 2023, was awarded the prestigious Individual Artist Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. He has lived in San Antonio, Texas since 1979.

Primarily a sculptor in clay and wood, Chadbourne works in a range of materials and in both two- and three-dimensional formats. Over the years he has created a complex body of work unified by a primal iconography and an artifact-like quality emerging from a very personal and consistent formal, aesthetic and philosophical sense.

Margaret lives on a ranch near Glen Rose, Texas. Originally raised in a small ranching community in northwestern Colorado, she has been around horses most of her life. After retiring from the medical industry in 2008, she devoted herself to a year of studying three-dimensional portraiture. After that, she focused on figurative art, taking multiple workshops at Scottsdale Artist's School. She works with both water- and oil-based clays, and creates realistic figures of the athletic human form, horses and other animals.

Her work has been accepted into juried competitions such as: Bosque Art Classic, the American Academy of Equine Art museum show, The Texas Masters of Fine Arts and Crafts, the Breckenridge Fine Art Show, the Mountain Oyster Show, the Pearce Museum Invitational Show, Cattlemen’s Western Art Show, Loveland Sculpture In the Park, the Women Artists of the West National Show, the Pearce Museum Invitational Show, and the Museum of Western Art Invitational Show.

Margaret is also a Signature Member of the Women Artists of the West Juried Art group.

Dewane Hughes is Professor of Sculpture and has been teaching at The University of Texas at Tyler since 2005. Hughes graduated with his M.F.A. in sculpture from Montana State University-Bozeman and with a B.A. in the majors Art and Philosophy & Religion from Buena Vista University. Prior to his arrival at UT Tyler, Hughes was the studio lab technician for sculpture at the University of Iowa (1996-1998), an Assistant Professor of Art at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa (1998-2000) and an Assistant Professor Art at Missouri Southern State University (2000-2004). Some of Hughes’ selected accomplishments include serving as President (now Emeritus) of the Texas Sculpture Group (which is a charter of the International Sculpture Group), being part of the Harding Family Art Collection at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort (Farmington, Pennsylvania), and participating in an international group exhibition at The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan). Hughes has a vigorous national and growing international exhibition record and is am currently represented by the Shidoni Gallery (Santa Fe, New Mexico). Many of Hughes’ large-scale sculptures can be found in permanent locations around the nation.

Alex “Al” Johnson was born and raised in Macomb, Illinois. After high school, he attended Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, completing a Bachelors of Fine Art in Photography in 2010. During his time at NIU, he gained exposure to sculpture and metal casting, shifting his artistic interests. In 2012, he was accepted into the graduate program at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi in sculpture. After completing his MFA in 2015, he accepted his current position at Collin College in Plano, Texas. As the Art Labs Coordinator, he oversees multiple studios in addition to the sculpture and foundry areas.

Johnson makes work that draws on his life exposed to blue collar jobs and workers. He draws heavily from his time growing up in the rural Midwest, working on a family owned and operated farm. His work often incorporates idioms used in the different industries as well as a sense of humor.

Norman Kary is a Dallas based artist living and working for over 40 years in the DFW metroplex. He primarily works with assemblage, collage and sculptural objects. His fascination with found objects goes back to his childhood where he scavenged fields around industrial parks in Los Angeles. His work has evolved to the point that he identifies with these discarded materials as souls - as a metaphor of his youth. His process provides a stage for these found objects and images to tell a story - in doing so, there's the potential to discover something about ourselves.

Carmen Menza is an interdisciplinary artist creating fine art and technology based installations utilizing light, painting, interactive software and music composition. Her work explores themes of time, space, color, perception and human connection. Her installations have been created for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas Aurora Light & Sound Festival, Meow Wolf, UTSW Clements University Hospital, Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art, Octavia Art Gallery and more. Her films have screened at the Dallas International Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival and KERA. She is a TACA New Works Fund Grant recipient, a Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs - Arts Activate Grant recipient and a Cedars Union Artist Residency recipient. She is a founding member of Texas Vignette, a non-profit organization that promotes the work of women artists throughout Texas. She received her BFA in jazz guitar performance from the University of North Texas.