Anna Hendrick Karpatkin Benjamin lives and works out of her home studio in Philadelphia. Born and raised in New York City, she began her arts education at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and continued at Haverford College where she received a B.A. in Fine Arts (Printmaking) and Education (2013). After teaching in museums, schools and community art centers in the Philadelphia area, Anna went on to receive an M.F.A. in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (2017). In 2018 she was the inaugural recipient of the West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné Papermill in Brooklyn, New York, and a Studio Workspace Resident in papermaking at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York in 2019. She was the 2021 Windgate Fellow with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists’ two year Visual Artist Fellowship program and in 2023 was their Senior Partnership Initiative/NewCourtland Fellow. Anna utilizes paper, print, drawing and hand cutting to construct sanctuary through pattern, repetition and ritual. In 2022 Anna founded Studio Karpendrick, a professional home studio equipped with a woodshop, printshop and wet paper studio.

Katharine L. DeLamater is a Studio Collaborator at Dieu Donné. She studied art and philosophy at Mount Holyoke College and received her MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She is the recipient of an Iowa Arts fellowship and a West Bay View Foundation Fellowship which supported her development as a hand papermaker, artist, and educator. Her writing on authorship and collaboration was first published by Hand Papermaking Magazine. Alongside teaching and artist collaborations, Katharine maintains her own artistic practice which includes papermaking, letterpress printing, and experimental bookbinding.

Candy Alexandra González is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, and trauma-competent art educator. Candy received their MFA in Book Arts + Printmaking from the University of the Arts in 2017. Since graduating, they have been a 40th Street Artist-in-Residence in West Philadelphia, a West Bay View Fellow at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY, the 2021 Linda Lee Alter Fellow for the DaVinci Art Alliance and the 2024-2025 Leeway x Fleisher Artist in Residence. Their visual art and poetry practice is rooted in the liberation of fat, brown, immigrant, queer and trans people. Candy is currently an Art + Art Education doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Jaz Graf’s projects explore legacy, through the lens of impermanence, diaspora and intergenerational storytelling. She is inspired by handmade objects, such as textiles, paper, prints and books, which record time and ecologies, tracing the historical dialogue between nature and civilizations. Graf’s work has appeared at The Newark Museum of Art, in AM New York News and on PBS TV. Graf is a recipient of the NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship, Newark Creative Catalyst, Dieu Donné West Bay View Fellowship, among others. Graf holds a MA in Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa.

Lauren Krukowski (she/her) has an unwavering desire to produce color relationships that arouse deep emotional responses, similar to the musical frisson she experiences from vocal harmonies. Her work moves fluidly through hand papermaking, printmaking, and textile processes—connecting through color and tactility. Lauren is the 2024-25 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné. Additional awards and artist residencies have supported her work, including the Stanley Award for International Research Fellowship (2022), Print Workshop Residency at David Krut Workshop (2022), Leola Bergman Fellowship (2021-22), Guttenberg Arts' Space and Time Artist Residency (2020), and the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship Residency at Anderson Center (2016). Recent exhibitions include "And, And, And," (solo) at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' Project Art Gallery, "Windows" (solo) at the University of Iowa's Ana Mendieta Gallery (IA), and "Reclaimed and Recycled" at Public Space One (IA). In 2024, Lauren earned an MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa with a secondary focus in papermaking at the Center for the Book. She holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating in 2010. After her West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné, Lauren will spend six weeks as an artist in residence at PenArt in Door County, Wisconsin.

SR Lejeune is a multidisciplinary artist living & working in Brooklyn, NY & Pine Plains, NY. SR's sculptures are perpetual prototypes of trans corporeality — unfixed forms between hand and industrial processes, invisibility and legibility, mechanical engineering and poetry, fiction and function. SR received a BA with High Honors in Studio Art from Oberlin College (2015), was a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft (2017-19) and holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art (2023). They recently completed the West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY and are currently a Fellow at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM.

Anela Ming-Yue Oh (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based on the Big Island of Hawai’i. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She uses materials that have a life of their own such as clay, paper, and fiber to feed her studio practice and create environments full of hope. As a mixed race artist of Malaysian Chinese descent, her visual language draws from her heritage as a reminder that there are reservoirs of strength we can draw upon from those who have passed away to imagine and construct new futures. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Sonoma Ceramics, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Tiapapata Art Center in Samoa and a Teaching Artist-in-Residence at the Oxbow School. She was also a West Bay View Fellow at Dieu Donné Papermill and traveled to Malaysia as a SMFA at Tufts Traveling Fellow in 2023.