Oates, Leah-
Oates has B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, an M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.
In 2017 this series was featured in the MTA Arts and Design Light Box Project at 42nd Street/6th Avenue and is on view through 2017 and Oates has a second solo show of this series at Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC.
Oates has shown in the NYC area in group shows at Wave Hill, Prospect Park, The Pen and Brush Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, Moments Gallery, Nurture Art Gallery, The Center for Book Arts, 440 Gallery and nationally at Bob Rauschenberg Gallery in Florida, Unsettled Gallery in New Mexico in the Chicago, Illinois are at Artemisia Gallery, Arc Gallery, Women Made Gallery and at the Bridgeport Art Center.
Oates has had over fourteen solo shows at venues such as Susan Eley Fine Art, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, The Brooklyn Public Library, The Center for Book Arts, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill, Long Island and the Sol Mednick Gallery at the Philadelphia University of the Arts.
Recently work by Oates was featured in Art Reveal Magazine, Watershed Review, Deluge Journal, Cold Mountain Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, Irreversible Magazine, Postit 1 Journal of Literature and Art, Artvoices Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Vasa Online Journal, New Jersey Star Ledger, Beautiful Decay, Phaidon Club Online, Eyesin Magazine, Bomb Magazine Blog, Diffusion Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, Daily Constitutional and Art Squeeze.
Oates has work in many the private collections and in numerous public collections including the National Museum of Women in the Art, The Brooklyn Museum Artists’ Book Collection, The British Library, The Walker Art Center Libraries, The Smithsonian Libraries and Franklin Furnace at MoMA.
Olsen, Ken-
Ken Olson lives in the Pacific Northwest. His poetry is published in the major Haiku print & online journals in the U.S., England, & Australia and selected for the Red Moon Anthology four times.
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