AMBER STUCKE is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. She identifies her work within ideas of social relationships situated between artistic research, science and imagination. Through materials of sound and language, performance, installations, embodied and appropriated drawings, scientific prints and DIY artist books, her research interests include questions of symbiotic and rhizomatic relationships, Native American ethnobotany, local knowledge systems, plant-human relationships, evolutionary biology, consciousness, and the appropriation of visual scientific classification structures.

Since 2019, her interdisciplinary practice advocates for the preservation of Native American language, which is inspired by her early and continuing relationships with both Anishinaabeg and Lakota Sioux from growing up in the Chicago Metropolitan area.

Stucke holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and has also had additional studies at Goldsmith’s College in London and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at the Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs, CA), Akron Art Museum (Akron, OH), Satellite Berlin (Berlin, Germany), BAK (Utrecht, Netherlands), University of Oporto (Oporto, Portugal), Cain Schulte Contemporary Art (San Francisco, CA), Punch Gallery (Seattle, WA), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA), and Zacatecas Cultural Center (Zacatecas, Mexico); solo shows include: Electric Works (San Francisco, CA), The David Brower Center (Berkeley, CA), The LAB (San Francisco, CA), Clay Street Press (Cincinnati, OH), and 2731 Prospect Gallery (Cleveland, OH).

She is a recipient of the 2016/2017 Curtis Gates Lloyd Research Fellowship at the Lloyd Library & Museum and an invited artist for the 2024/2025 Getty PST UCLA Art Sci exhibition.
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MARK PATSFALL  is an artist, printmaker, and publisher. He received his MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 1979 and founded what is now Clay Street Press in 1981. As a publisher and printer, he has created editions with international, national, and local artists. While working with Carl Solway Gallery (1983–2003), he served as chief designer and technician for video artist Nam June Paik, creating video sculptures and public projects. His archive of work with Nam June Paik is currently on view in Busan, Korea.

In 2002, he was awarded an artist residency in Prague, Czech Republic, by the Ohio Arts Council and Jelini Foundation. In 2011, he executed a video sculpture commission for the American Broadcast Museum in Chicago.

He is a former adjunct professor of art at the University of Cincinnati and served as an executive member of the Board of Directors of the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 2011–2020. His work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and abroad, and is held in numerous public and private collections.