Ashley Beals (she/her) is a painter and print maker from northern Connecticut. 

While at Sable, Ashley experimented with anthrotype sunprinting. She also worked en plein air to create both watercolor and oil paintings. 

Some fun facts about Ashley are she is a part of an old lady/lesbian softball team and her first job was an ice cream scoopologist. 

Website: ashleybeals.com

IG: @ashley.beals.art

Caroline Brown (they/them) works with readily available “non-traditional” materials (trash, plants, food waster, etc.) and is from DC/Philly. 

While at Sable, Caroline spent time rummaging around the land for materials, collaborated on banana peel paper making, experimented with “goop” (wheat paste and yarn scarps), and made portals with bent sticks and mesh. 

Fun fact: I want to learn bird calls

Eva Hoffman (she/her) is a filmmaker, writer, and painter living in San Francisco, California but originally from Minnesota. 

While at Sable, Eva has been working on a feature length script that explores the dynamics of a queer couple in an open relationship, and also an experimental multi channel video installation, film and concert that explores memories as a journey through the California landscape. To balance these projects she also paints :) 

Eva could eat bread for breakfast, lunch & dinner and never get sick of it.

Lauren Zito (she/her) is a digital filmmaker/cinematographer from Plattsburgh, NY. 

While at Sable, Lauren explored her surroundings, chased light, listened & recorded the owls and woodpeckers. 

Spending the majority of her time down by Sable’s vineyards, she built and wore a crown of thorns and antlers of twigs. Her journey through the vineyards took her into the world of the crone and end of life power and passion. 

A fun fact: she is a poached egg artist! 

Website: laurenzito.com

Riley Taylor (they/them) is a figurative painter & art teacher from Meriden, NH, previously Memphis, TN. 

Here at Sable Riley has been painting  multi figure work combining imagery, inspiration, and memories from their experience here on the Sable land as a practice of commemorating small moments into a collaged narrative. 

Riley got their start as an artist drawing caricatures at Six Flags and festivals and developed a love of people in art.

Ali Ellis (she/they) is a painter & writer from Brooklyn. 

While at Sable, Ali is contemplating and exploring holding. 

Ali is strawberry blonde. 

@artbyaliellis

Personal: @ablobali

Xiao Ma (any/all pronouns) is a photographer and paper maker currently living and working in NYC as a chaplain and a Master of Divinity student. 

While at Sable they collaborated with other artists to make photos, and make paper out of banana peels. They also led a photography workshop for the group, inviting us to "make photos" in relationship with objects, places, and each other. The result was not only interesting photos, but engaging conversation and deeper connections. Before departing, Xiao asked us- "How can attention itself be a creative practice?"