Christina Turner is an artist and designer who co-owned FORUM artspace for four glorious years. Most of her art collection is from Bazaarbeque Volumes 1-9.

Currently, Christina's pursuing her M.S. in User Experience Design from Kent State University. She's researching and designing an information portal to help connect people with relevant resources through a project funded by the National Science Foundation's I-CORPS program and serves on the Board of UX Akron.

You can check out some of her designs, illustrations, and fine artwork at www.happywonderfool.com.

Justin Michael Will has studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design and Kent State University and has worked with all types of professional artists tools and mediums for over fifteen years at his old day job. He has exhibited primarily in Cleveland, painting and drawing wildly colorful and exaggerated visions that range from illustration to fine art to just plain silly. With several murals around town, band flyers, fake menus hanging in coffee shops and gas stations, and a slew of colorful works contained in matching color-pop frames at Vero Pizza Napoletana in Cleveland Heights, you can find him all over the Cleveland area. He stays intrigued and inspired by our beautifully creative city and offers a spur-of-the-moment language and vision that's uniquely his own. Embracing humor and never getting too serious, he'd like everyone to simply enjoy themselves and laugh with him on his journey.

Michael Abarca is a Cleveland-area artist and one of the founders of FORUM artspace. He received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2009 as a Drawing major and is currently a gallery director at RDFA. While not making art he loves spending time with family, making to-do lists and talking about movies.

With 20 years of experience in the Fine Art Industry, Paul has a well-established career as a fine art expert, both locally and nationally. His extensive knowledge and experience ranges from logistics and planning, campaign and exhibition management, marketing and sales, to shipping and receiving, crate building and packing, materials and art history, and more. Nationally, he has promo artists and their collaborative as a gallerist, business owner, and fine art consultant. Paul’s talent and passion has made human industry “jack-of-all-trades” as he has worked nearly every Fine Art Industry job.

Nick Gulan is a Cleveland based artist and co-founder of FORUM artspace. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2009 with a BFA in Drawing. Working mainly in painting and sculptural installation.

Nick worked as an Art Handler at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 2010-2013. His most notable work at the CMA was assisting with the Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing 590A.

Shortly after, Nick began a career in Tattooing. He has been working professionally in the Northeast Ohio Area for well over 10 years. His work has been influenced by the traditions of both American and Japanese style tattooing. You can find him working at Black Metal Tattoo in Strongsville, Ohio.

@nickgulan_tattoo

Karl Anderson is a 2009 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art. After majoring in Drawing with minors in Communication Design, Painting, Printmaking, and T.I.M.E, he cofounded FORUM artspace and works as a freelance curator and art handler in the Cleveland-Akron area. His passion for information and language spur his artistic practice, which focuses on the irregularities and structures of communication.