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Cole Chang is a biracial Chinese-American artist and poet. He was born in New York City, and currently lives and works in Berkeley, California. His work examines what it means to be, and who gets to be, "American." He manipulates objects in order to explore the consequences of assimilation and question cultural authenticity. He makes art that deconstructs the mythologized “West,” and presents himself and his family on their own terms. Cole hopes to help heal his father's scars through recognizing the past and building towards a more expansive definition of heritage.

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Jo Williams was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is currently working towards a B.F.A. in Sculpture and Ceramics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Jo has been working for UNCG as a sculpture and ceramics studio assistant since 2020. Having the experience of being homeschooled until college, she perceives the world very differently and steps back to see the smaller parts of an otherwise larger picture.

Jo's sculptural artwork stems from concepts of self-awareness, whether it’s through psychological or sociological interactions within the natural world. Jo continues to explore how changes in the environment affect the connective tissue binding humanity and nature; how it contorts and reshapes itself with each new alteration of our state of mind and being.

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