Rebecca makes a majority of her work on the potter's wheel.  Most pieces are then hand-carved and/or hand-painted to give each piece of pottery a one-of-a-kind feel.  Rebecca enjoys making pieces that are unique and useful; things that can make simple moments a joyful part of your day! 

Rebecca is available to accept commissions.

Facebook: rebeccawindpottery, Instagram: @rebecca.wind.pottery

Hi! I’m Breanna Cook owner of Cooks Clothing And Accessories. My featured items in Kindred Collective are crochet plushies each handmade from soft, high- quality yarn and available in a variety of sizes. Some fan favorites included keychains, opossums, Dino's, octopi, chickens and bumble bees! All of which will be available at Kindred Collective. I also create handmade adult and children's dresses along with blind date with a book bundles. I happily accept custom orders. You can find me at the Alfred Farmers Market over the summer and their seasonal markets in the winter.

Breanna is available to accept commissions.

Instagram: @Cooks_Clothing_And_Accessories.

Myles Calvert was born in Collingwood, Ontario. He attended the University of Guelph with a focus in printmaking, before traveling to London, UK where he completed his MA in Printmaking, at Camberwell College of Art (University for the Arts, London). During this time, he worked for the National Portrait Gallery before moving to Hastings in East Sussex, to teach printmaking at Sussex Coast College (now East Sussex College) and become the Duty Manager of the newly established Jerwood Gallery (now Hastings Contemporary).

Four formative years were spent as a Visiting Professor in Expanded Media at Alfred University (New York State College of Ceramics) and Alfred State College of Technology, teaching across print-based mediums including core foundations programs, senior advising, and graduate mentorship. Four additional years were spent at Winthrop University within the department of Fine Arts as an Associate Professor with a focus on printmaking and foundations courses.

Recent residencies include Art Print Residence (Barcelona, Spain) and Proyecto’ace (Buenos Aires, Argentina), a lecture/workshop at PUCP (Pontificia Universidad Catòlica del Perú) in Lima, the Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque, NM), and the McColl Center (Charlotte, NC). Myles is currently the Director of the iea (Institute for Electronic Arts) at Alfred University, New York, President of the Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI), and the University Affiliated Educator Board Member of the Tamarind Institute, New Mexico.

Myles is available to accept commissions on a case by case basis.

Instagram: @squirrelpigeonfish Website: squirrelpigeonfish.com

T Rasheed is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in glass and neon to explore the aesthetics and politics of care, visibility, and survival. Rooted in Black feminist theory, her work often merges sculptural form, light, and text to center narratives of Black women’s resilience and autonomy. She transforms industrial materials into glowing statements of self-definition—gestures of tenderness forged through heat, pressure, and precision.

Originally from West Oakland, California, T Rasheed is currently an MFA candidate in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies at Alfred University, where her research examines how luminous materials can hold memory, grief, survival, and transformation. Her screen print Not Your Silence, created at Pilchuck Glass School in 2024, made its debut at Paris Photo Fair 2025 and is featured in Der Greif magazine, Issue 18 Tomorrow Is Today, edited by Hank Willis Thomas.

T Rasheed  has been featured in Vogue, ARTnews, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, and TIME. She has curated exhibitions, produced performances, and developed public programs for institutions including the de Young Museum, ICA San Francisco, Hauser & Wirth, and Frieze Los Angeles, among others.

Liz Walsh was born in Lexington, Kentucky. They discovered a love of making while studying ceramic engineering at Alfred University’s New York State College of Ceramics. After graduating from that program in 2019 they began working as a process design engineer and making time for ceramic art. 

They make a variety of functional work focused on wheel thrown ceramics and combine their engineering and artistic pursuit by formulating and testing glazes. They additionally work with fiber arts including sewing, quilting, and weaving as part of a medieval living history group.

Liz is available to accept commissions.  

Instagram: @walshceramics

Air Law (they/he) fills their days with multidisciplinary artistic practices, music and movement, teaching and learning, spending copious amounts of time with as many cats as possible, being with loved ones, and hanging out in the woods. More formally, Air has a background in dance, somatics, bodywork and cultural studies with an M.F.A. in Dance from Smith College and a Certification in Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysis.  Air loves working with their students and colleagues here in Alfred and has been presenting their tiny paintings, custom nail art, and jewelry under the name "Pinkies Out." (photo by Kelsey Chloë Sucena)

Instagram: @erin_c_law

D. Chase Angier is the Artistic Director of Angier Performance Works and an interdisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds at the thresholds of movement, visual art, and scenography. Based in New York State but shaped by international collaboration, she lectures, teaches, performs, and creates across borders and disciplines. Angier Performance Works emerges through sustained, intimate collaboration with artists in the visual, performing, and design fields, generating performances that have traveled to Japan, the Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Iceland, France, and throughout the United States. These works—visually textured, movement-driven, and often situated in non-theatrical environments—investigate interconnectivity, shared presence, and the subtle ways bodies listen to place.

In recent years, Angier has extended her choreographic thinking into two-dimensional visual art, creating “feeling-forward” images that hold the traces of walking, noticing, and embodied research. Her visual work has been presented at the Memorial Art Gallery, the Miller Performing Arts Center, and Stove Works Gallery in Tennessee.

A Professor of Dance in the School of Art and Design + Performing Arts Division at Alfred University, Angier has helped cultivate a program rooted in creative placemaking, interdisciplinary composition, and experimentation. She is deeply committed to moving the field forward—supporting artists and audiences through teaching, curation, and advocacy. As Artistic Director of the Alfred Dance Residency Program and a board member of NYSCA/NY State DanceForce, she brings national and international artists into dialogue with communities across western New York.

Angier has spoken and taught widely, including at multiple Prague Quadrennials since 2011 and at World Stage Design. She co-curated Formations for the 2019 Prague Quadrennial and served as an International Juror for the PQ 2023 Countries and Regions Exhibitions.

In her home studio, ceramic artist Priscilla Dahl mixes her own earthenware clay and glazes and fires electric kilns. Priscilla’s functional pottery is decorated with a technique using hand drawn paper stencils and layers of underglaze and earthenware slip. The pottery is glaze fired to cone 02 with a clear, food safe glaze. This decorative style allows Priscilla to develop color by building up layers that blend together under a clear glaze. She uses wide brushstrokes to create texture and movement in the compositions.

Priscilla received her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University  in 1997. She transferred into the School of Art and Design after taking classes towards her BFA at the University of North Texas and the University of Montana. She has been working independently in her home studios since 1998. After moving back to the Alfred area in 2025, Priscilla has been working at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum as a Museum Attendant in addition to her daily studio practice.

Amy Powers is a local artist and high school art teacher with a love for ceramics and pattern.  She makes work that relies on markmaking and design, playing with space through layers and opacity.  Her ceramic work is meant to be enjoyed through small uses in acts that bring light into the everyday.  

Amy spends her days guiding young artists from 8th grade through 12th grade at Alfred-Almond Central School, designing sets for the musical, skiing, reading, traveling, playing ukulele and singing in The Ukuladies, and in creative endeavors of all kinds.  She lives in Alfred Station with her husband, Angus Powers, professor of glass at Alfred University, and her daughters Rona and Faye.  Amy received a BFA from Alfred University in 2000 and an MAT from Rhode Island School of Design in 2001.  She has taught art in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and locally since 2005.  

Can you be born with an addiction to fabric? I love the touch, drape, texture, airiness or sturdy Oomph of it. And then there's color. Color makes everything SING.

So, after adjusting my early learning years to accommodate mountains of fabrics, and learn how to make everything from the individual yarns in its structure, to the actual fabric's woven web, plus countless garments and other household textiles, I eventually turned to Natural Dyeing. The slow, often meditative pace of achieving color on a textile is mesmerizing and almost worshipful.

Being also a passionate gardener and living in the midst of Nature's granduer, my color sources are often at my fingertips. But the careful processes called for in order to extract these often hidden sources of pigment are a constant challenge to the science side of my brain. Meanwhile, the artist side is awed by the deep thrill of bringing beauty into BEING.

 I cannot get enough.

The results of this magical process fill notebook after notebook, and become the fleece, yarns and fabrics that fuel further exploration, and many satisfying winter projects.

My artist history:

Sewing- since about age 6-- professionally for 50 years or so

Knitting- since the late '60s

Spinning- since 1975

Weaving- ditto

Natural Dyeing- ditto

Costume Shop Supervisor/ Instructor of Sewing, Costuming and Natural Dyeing classes at Alfred University's Div of Performing Arts-  1998-2024 (retired)

Countless workshops at fiber festivals, guilds, fiber producer's farms, conferences, colleges and private businesses

I LOVE teaching and sharing. Give me a venue and eager participants and I am ecstatic.

Debra is available to accept commissions.

Coral Penelope Lambert studied and taught Sculpture in England before moving to America as an International Research Fellow in the mid 90’s. She produces object and process based sculpture, along with site-specific work and sculpture in the public realm. Her extensive background as a formal steel sculptor coalesces with her passion for casting metal. She has been a Professor of Sculpture at Alfred since 2007 and is Director of the National Casting Center Foundry.

Her work featured at Kindred Collective includes a brand new series of Cast Glass ‘Boobelisks’ as well as her traditional Cast Iron ones. Embracing the power of the feminine, the ‘Boobelisk’ series reference monuments such as Egyptian obelisks which are experienced outside of their intended environment, questioning concepts of ownership and site with a sense of humor and wit.

10% of the proceeds from sales of all ‘Boobelisks’ sold will be donated to Breast Surgery either the Breast Cancer Foundation.  https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/ , https://www.genderbands.org or an organization of your choice.

You can also wear her work as seen in her line of 3d printed jewelry 'Facets' which references her 'Fallen Sky' steel sculpture sited on the Alfred University campus. Check out the selection of Earrings, Bangles and Lariats!

Amis Meredith Crawford is an Artist residing in Alfred, NY with roots in Rochester, Seattle, Alaska, and the Hudson Valley.  Growing up in Rochester, Amis earned their BFA from the NYSCC with a focus in Glass, Metal, Light, and Earth Science.  They drove across the country to Seattle, WA in 2010 and began work in the Industry as a Glass Instructor, Gaffer, Technician, & Metal Fabricator all through 2017.  Amis spent many summers working as a Chef at Pilchuck Glass School; Winter Wednesday's spent cooking accessible community-meals for the Capitol Hill District and operating an artisan market-license year-round with their small business ‘Ship of Fools’.  Amis spent time living in Skagway, AK working as a Glassblower at an organic show garden serving farm-to-table food and hot-glass experiences. Relocating from Alaska to the Hudson Valley, Amis briefly worked for Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry (now UAP) and then Workshop Art Fabrication in Kingston, NY where they specialized in Fine-Arts manufacturing services for highly collected Artists and their galleries in the global art market.  Amis was the gating system lead in the Wax Department, studio Patinist, and Casting Team member at Workshop until 2023. Amis is currently employed by the NYSCC, going into their third year as the Glass-Studio Technician.  Amis enjoys balancing their career, studio practice, and civic duty as much as possible, and currently expresses this through their union leadership with CSEA local 749; their home-based micro farm & produce stand- known in the village as “The Green Acre”- and custom made production for private clients and markets with their art business.

Amis is always open for commission, restoration, and consultation. 

Instagram: crows_crossing

Ben is an Emeritus Professor of English at Alfred University, is an American poet, essayist, scholar, and critic. He is the author of twelve books, including three collections of essays on Zen practice, six collections of poems, a verse novella, and a critical study of modern Irish writing. From 1973-2000, he served as a regular reviewer for Poetry. Over the past four decades, he has contributed more than 250 poems, essays, and reviews to leading journals in North America and abroad, including Poetry, Shenandoah, Poetry Ireland Review, Agenda, and the Sewanee Review. Until his retirement in 2006, he taught courses in literature and writing and an Honors course in Buddhist meditation at Alfred University. He also taught classical guitar and often performed in faculty recitals. From 1998 to 2022 he led the Falling Leaf Sangha, a Rinzai Zen practice group in Alfred, New York. For the past decade he has also offered guest lectures and conducted meditative retreats at the Olean Meditation Center in Olean, New York. "One Time, One Meeting," his monthly column, explores aspects of Zen practice.