Artist, Glassblower

Caroline Landau (she/they b.1991) is a queer, multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. They graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013 with a BFA focused in painting, drawing, and printmaking. They completed her MFA from San Francisco Art institute in 2016.

Landau’s work has focused on site-specific moldblowing to capture the texture of wood and ice in nature. Their work has received publicity and recognition through the New Glass Now exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass (2019), an interview with the UrbanGlass Quarterly (2020), acceptance in the Glass Meet the Future Film Festival with Northland Creative (2021), a paneled talk with the Museum of Art and Design (2021), the exhibition at the Wadsworth Museum for the exhibition, Fired Up (2022), shown work at Venice Glass Week (2023), and has work in Corning’s New Glass Review 43 publication (2023).

Find Landau’s website here.

Photographer, Videographer

Oliver Rye is a Bend, Oregon based photographer and videographer specializing in action and outdoor adventure narratives and documentaries.

His work weaves together a deep appreciation for the elegance of nature and organic imagery with a strong attention to detail and technical proficiency to tell stories that are both thought provoking and emotionally engaging.

Oliver’s work can be found at: ryevisuals.com

Project Lead, Scientist, Connector of Dots

Dr. Madison Sankovitz is a queer Boulder, Colorado-based ecologist and writer specializing in uncovering natural mysteries and telling stories of overlooked beauty. She graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in ecology and evolutionary biology. She completed her PhD at the University of California Riverside in 2022.

She brings expertise in scientific research, expeditionary logistics, and narrative storytelling.