Gillian Sheikh is a St. Louis-based creative who enjoys making art as a personal form of encouragement and relaxation. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, each piece is an expression of love's power to win again and again and a reminder to never give up on yourself. With a strong attention to detail and lots of color, she pours herself into paintings on canvas, decorative baskets made from plastic bags, wooden pendants from walnut shells, and oven-baked clay figures. When not in the studio, she enjoys taking care of and spending time with her  family, walking her beagles, practicing tai chi, playing piano and working for ZeCoat.

Handwork has always been a tool of survival, shaping how I process memory, control, and resistance. I use cloth, color, and form to map both internal landscapes and external systems of power. Domestic materials—often dismissed as decorative—become my language of repair and refusal.

By combining fabrics from my own life with salvaged textiles, plaster, and mixed media, I create surfaces that hold memory, trauma, and adaptation. Fugitive colors, which fade and shift, echo impermanence and the resurfacing of pain. My sculptural series Obedience Units, built through repetitive stitching and knotting, transforms stillness into assertion—making emotional labor visible and material intelligence central.

https://www.gretacoalier.com/

Based in St. Louis, MO, Vasilisa is an interior designer and emerging visual artist with a refined eye for aesthetics and detail. With a BFA in Interior Design from Maryville University, she has brought creative vision and artistic sensibility to numerous design projects. Now pursuing her lifelong passion for art professionally, Vasilisa continues to expand her skills and draw inspiration from the world around her. Her journey is one of constant growth, exploration, and creative expression.

vassasproulldesigns.com