Tony Marsh earned his BFA in Ceramic Art at California State University Long Beach in 1978. After graduating he spent 3 years in Mashiko, Japan at the workshop of Tatsuzo Shimaoka. Marsh completed his MFA at Alfred University in 1988. He is Prof. Emeritus at California State University Long Beach where he was the Program Chair in Ceramic Arts  for over 25 years. He was the first Director of the Center for Contemporary Ceramics at CSULB.

Marsh has taught, lectured and exhibited extensively throughout the US, Asia and Europe. Tony is a 2018 United States Artist Fellow. You will find his ceramic art in many private and permanent museum collections around the world, included among them: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Mad Museum of Art in NY, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, SF MOMA, MOCA LA, The Hammer Museum LA , The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas , The Everson Museum, Syracuse, Museum Fine Arts Houston, Musee d Art Moderne, Paris, and M+ Museum Hong Kong

Amy Smith-Stewart has organized nearly one hundred exhibitions across museums, collections, galleries, and temporary spaces. Her writing has appeared in books and catalogues published by institutions and publishers including the Bates College Museum of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Charta, Colby College Museum of Art, DelMonico Books, Gregory R. Miller & Co., KW Institute for Contemporary Art, MoMA PS1, Revolver Publishing, Rizzoli, Taschen, and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. As both curator and writer, Smith-Stewart is a dedicated advocate for emerging and overlooked artists, as well as for erased and forgotten histories.

She currently serves as the Diana Bowes Chief Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, where she has organized more than fifty-five exhibitions and projects since 2013. She launched Aldrich Projects, a series that presents a single work or focused body of work by a singular artist, and co-created The Aldrich Box, a program that commissions artists to produce original works designed to travel beyond the museum’s walls. Her visionary approach has brought artists to The Aldrich at pivotal moments in their careers, including solo museum debuts by Uman, Nickola Pottinger, Hangama Amiri, Genesis Belanger, Layo Bright, Milano Chow, Lucia Hierro, Michelle Lopez, Hayal Pozanti, Jessi Reaves, Eva LeWitt, Sara Cwynar, Chiffon Thomas, B. Wurtz, and others. She has also organized major survey exhibitions with artists such as Martha Diamond, Harmony Hammond, Loie Hollowell, Raven Halfmoon, Karla Knight, Suzanne McClelland, Ruth Root, Frank Stella, and Jackie Winsor.

Smith-Stewart’s Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art was named one of the best exhibitions of 2019 by The New York Times. The show traveled to the Sarasota Art Museum and was accompanied by the artist’s first monograph. Her exhibition Martha Diamond: Deep Time (co-organized with the Colby College Museum of Art) was described by New York Times art critic Will Heinrich as “a jaw-dropping show.” It was also accompanied by the artist’s first monograph.

In addition to solo and survey exhibitions, she has curated expansive group shows at The Aldrich, including A Garden of Promise and Dissent, Objects Like Us, and 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone. In June 2026, she will inaugurate The Aldrich Decennial, a new ten-year series spotlighting new art made in Connecticut. The debut edition is titled I Am What Is Around Me and will feature forty intergenerational CT-based artists.

Recent exhibitions have traveled to institutions including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, ICA VCU, The Contemporary Austin, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and others. Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers, co-organized with the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, is currently on a national tour, opening May 1st at Ballroom Marfa.

Currently on view and upcoming exhibitions in 2026 and 2027 include the solo museum debuts of Jennie Jieun Lee, Kelly Sinnapah Mary (co-organized with Americas Society), and Brandon Morris, a two-person show with Chenlu Hou and Chiara No, What the Hands Remember to Hear, as well as first survey exhibitions with Mimi Smith and Bonnie Lucas.

Smith-Stewart is the founder of the nomadic curatorial project Smith-Stewart, which operated as a gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City from 2007 to 2009. She began her career as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), where she organized nineteen exhibitions and projects, including first solo museum presentations with Aleksandra Mir, Adrian Paci, Mika Rottenberg, and Taryn Simon, as well as major group exhibitions such as Day Labor and Greater New York 2005 . From 2006 to 2007, she served as Curatorial Advisor for the Mary Boone Gallery, where she organized group exhibitions introducing a new generation of artists. She has also curated exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park and the Noguchi Museum and served as Guest Curator for the Peter Norton Collection from 2006 to 2008. In addition to her curatorial work, Smith-Stewart has held teaching positions at the School of Visual Arts (MFA Fine Arts program) and Sotheby’s Institute of Art (MA Contemporary Art program).

Rachel Adams is the Chief Curator + Director of Programs at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She previously held roles at University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Oregon Contemporary, and The Contemporary Austin. Adams’s practice is centered on fostering meaningful relationships with artists and advancing projects at the intersections of photography, installation, sound, performance, video, new media, and architecture. At Bemis, she organizes interdisciplinary exhibitions, directs the residency program and curates LOW END, the organization’s sound venue, advancing artist-centered projects nationwide.