“A Changed Sun” is a new site-specific sculptural collage by Nick Mullins and Will Arnold. The work draws inspiration from classic science-fiction pulp stories, comics, vernacular architecture, and play. Will's zines and prints will also be on display at the Prairie Glass House.

Will Arnold received his MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently lives and works in Champaign, IL where he manages the student labs and studios at the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois. Will co-runs Work Press & Publication, a Risograph-based zine and artist book self-publishing venture. In recent years, Will’s practice has primarily focused on zines, comics, and artist books. Through collage and delving into and remixing historical comics, he explores themes such as landscape, epistemology, and memory.

Nick Mullins received his Master's of fine art in Metals from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He currently manages labs at the Schools of Art + Design at the University of Illinois. Nick's work revolves around improvisation, risk, chance, and the decay of memory.

In spliced and combined reaction shots from Antiques Roadshow, a television program where people come and have their family heirlooms or found objects valued, "Provenance" engages with the interplay of family, ownership, and the affective forces of authenticity and value represented by material objects. These reaction shots show the surprise, happiness, and disappointment of discovering economic and symbolic value, revealing our deeper senses of value, pride, success, and love.

Tamsyn Gilbert holds a BA in Cinema Studies and Anthropology from The University of Melbourne (Australia), a Masters in Media Studies, a Masters of Philosophy (Sociology), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from The New School for Social Research (USA). Her research connects the sociology of art, media studies, and cyberfeminism to explore how women are “seen” in media environments. She has worked on various media projects: from major film events (Melbourne Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festivals) to archival projects (Anthology Film Archives) to one-on-one collaboration with artists staging performances. Tamsyn has also curated exhibitions and events linked to international festivals (Venice Biennale and Liverpool Biennale), major museums (MoMA), and research institutions (Hong Kong Baptist University, Manchester School of Art). She is currently the Network Producer at Common Ground Research Networks and Co-Founder of Immaterial Books.

“Mere Beauty” is a collection of large-scale digital photographs. In these images, formal elements, such as color, shape, balance, depth, and scale, are offered by "nature" itself. Nonetheless, the images are not trying to be copies of nature. Instead, the natural color fields captured present a unique moment that brings the artist and viewer face-to-face with the transience of life, the serendipity of the scene, and the unrelenting movement of time.

Phillip Kalantzis Cope holds a BA in Public Policy from Monash University (Australia), a MA in International Relations from The Australian National University (Australia), and a Ph.D. in Politics from The New School for Social Research (USA). He uses the camera to draw attention to the subconscious of the everyday. His work has been published, exhibited internationally, written about, and can be found in public and private collections. Phillip is currently the Chief Social Scientist at Common Ground Research Networks and Co-Founder of Immaterial Books.

In the series “Dust and Ashes”, I wrestle with the age-old conundrum facing humanity when confronted with devastation in the presence of a quiet God. Loosely based on the Judeo-Christian story of Job, the series witnesses a family faced with an existential crisis in a chillingly desperate landscape. Centering around a family home, the photographs map and chart the psychological space of my family's private inner world. As I've photographed our farmhouse the surrounding lands and took portraits of myself and my family, I began to see our home as a canvas on which the various sectors of our consciousness were laid bare. Here, I reckoned with the heavens, raised children, laid in the sunlight with my wife, and had a cup of coffee every morning, and the space, once just a house, has illuminated itself to us all.

Micah McCoy is a photographer and poet based in Central Illinois and Chicago. Micah’s work explores issues of religiosity, anxiety, and social detachment. With a background in Sociology, Micah captures artifacts left behind from the social interactions of individuals and communities as well as catching these interactions in progress. In 2020, Micah accepted the Henry Nias Business in the Arts Fellowship with the Museum of Contemporary Photography. He currently serves in this role while working to complete an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. His work has been featured in many online publications and featured in exhibitions at the Urbana Museum of Photography, The Independent Media Center Urbana, JKC Gallery Trenton, NJ and others.

“Beach Boulevard” is a visual diary of sorts - out of the past, and through the present. Pink hues begin to meld with the sea haze along the beach as the sun sets over the site of the old high school, now replaced by common establishments. Two young women wait for a young man, circling a street corner on their bikes as another day begins to pass tonight along the beach. This area was once orange groves and oil fields as far as the eye could see. What now fills the horizon? Further inland, homes hide behind ten-foot brick walls, trying to remain in the shade. And, at the end of a long day of walking the hot pavement and breathing the fumes of individual liberty, a rare young man tells the tale of his false imprisonment and asks where the pier is - so that he can retrieve his backpack and dog. I tell him, follow along Beach Boulevard.

Brian O'Neill is a sociologist and photographer based in Champaign, Illinois. He is also a collaborator and curator with Immaterial Books. Brian's work investigates the relationship of society to the environment through a range of documentary techniques. Beach Boulevard is a mixed-media photobook and exhibit that investigates the history and culture of a Southern California town, and the tensions between continually seeking economic growth and its banal results. The work mixes various styles of documentary photography, portraiture, urban landscapes.

I often say that the only thing my work is about is my experience living in the rural Midwest at this specific time. This little snippet captures the time when I was newly married. It's a snapshot of these few months, and the work takes on the feel of the snapshot aesthetic. I recently read an interview with Alec Soth. He talked about making "Songbook," explaining he had a few different visual languages inside of him and how this book opened a new visual grammar for him. I similarly use the language of the snapshot. For some reason, this is often when dealing with my romantic life and things a little more intimate in my rural Midwestern experience.

Nathan Pearce is an artist based in Southern Illinois. Pearce works in book and zine making and photography. Pearce’s publications are held in several artists' book and library collections including those at MoMA, The Met, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Center for Creative Photography. His work has been exhibited in solo shows at the PhotoNola festival, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Nizhniy Tagil Museum of Fine Arts and The Rangefinder Gallery in Chicago. He has been published in over 200 books, zines and exhibition catalogs; as well as online in The Huffington Post, The British Journal of Photography, Juxtapoz and Self Publish Be Happy.