Bettina Furnee (born in The Hague, Netherlands) has worked independently in England since 1989, developing a site specific and socially engaged art practice. Trained as a lettercutter, public artist and art historian, Bettina Furnée’s work developed through private and public commissions towards a contemporary art practice, which is rooted in notions of site and uses text, sculptural form and light.

Stefan Nitoslawski is a visual artist and a documentary filmmaker based in Montreal, Canada. He has exhibited in Europe and in Canada and his films have been shown worldwide. His interests lie in exploring issues of identity in the context of perceived realities. He works in diverse forms of digital media.

Marlon Griffith attended the John S. Donaldson Technical Institute, Port of Spain, Trinidad. He has been an artist in residence at Bag Factory and City + Suburban Studios in Johannesburg and the Mino Paper Art Village in Japan. He has also participated in workshops in Martinique and Guadeloupe and has shown his work internationally in New York, Johannesburg, Kingston, Gwangju, Cape Town, and Toronto, among other locations.

Marlon Griffith is 2010 Commonwealth Connections grant recipient and will be living and working at Popopstudios from November – January, 2010.

James Pappas is currently on the faculty as an associate professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

He has had over 50 exhibitions and lectured widely in the field of Applied Media Aesthetics where he specializes in Black Cinema studies.

Pappas will be living and working at Popopstudios from October 29 to November 26, 2010.

Amarachi Okafor also works as a curator for the National Gallery of Art, Abuja, in Nigeria. She has a Bachelors degree in Painting from the University of Nigeria Nsukka in 2002, and an M.F.A in Sculpture from the same University. She has received a couple of awards and residencies worldwide. Her artwork is exhibited in Nigeria, as well as internationally.