10/09/2025
Adding to our ongoing series highlighting artists who have contributed artwork to our upcoming Trash Bash Silent Auction, we are ecstatic to be featuring Amber, Diane, and Sheldon!cowan
Image 1: Amber Cowan
“Melty Swans in Jade” 2025
Glass
10” x 3.75” x 3”
Amber Cowan is an artist and educator living in Philadelphia. She has been an instructor in the Glass Department at Tyler School of Art since 2010. Her work utilizes recycled and upcycled glass, and alongside the processes of flameworking, hot-sculpting and glassblowing to create sculptures which overwhelm the viewer with ornate abstraction and viral accrual. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of The Museum of Art and Design in New York, The Toledo Museum of Art, and The RISD Museum.
Image 2: Diane Burko
“Elegy Study #18” 2016
Oil, flashe, & crackle paste on panel
10 x 10 in.
Diane Burko’s work in painting, photography, and time-based media considers the marks that human conversations make on the landscape. A Professor Emerita of the Community College of Philadelphia with additional teaching experience at Princeton University, Burko has received multiple grants from the NEA, the Pennsylvania Arts Council, the Leeway Foundation and the Independence Foundation. She has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art. Burko has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, including shows at London’s Royal Academy of Art, Madrid’s Circulo de Bellas Artes, Minneapolis Art Institute.
Image 3: Sheldon Omar-Abba
“Porcelain Pain - Crowbar” 2022
Porcelain
1’5” x 6”
Sheldon Omar-Abba is the proud son of immigrants and a brown man in America. His work straddles the line between practicing artist and creative facilitator. His projects are often collaborations between artists, institutions and communities focused on documentation, and collective storytelling. He currently uses film photography as an access point for relationship building and discussions around topics of identity, race, and social justice.
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