MFA (2014) Hunter College

BA (2001) Bard College

Tony Bluestone (b. Englewood, New Jersey) received an MFA from Hunter college and has participated in residencies including The Shandanken Project, The Basil Alakazi Residency in Detroit, DNA Residency in Provincetown and The Prattsville Art Center. She has had solo shows at Freight & Volume Gallery, Elaine L Jacob gallery at Wayne State University in Detroit, at Larrie Gallery and a Two-Person Show at La Mama Gallery. She has had work in group shows at Rachel Uffner, The Academy of Arts and Letters, the New School, Etay Gallery, and Left Field Gallery, and has also performed written works at Storm King Art Center. In 2017, she was awarded the John Koch Award by the Academy of Arts and Letters. Bluestone is a teacher at Cooper Union and Hunter College. 

Laura Britton, AIA is an architect, author, and frequent lecturer on the subject of mass timber. As an Associate at Shigeru Ban Architects, Laura has led and contributed to a diverse range of projects, including Kentucky Owl Park, a bourbon distillery campus; Terrace House, a hybrid mass timber residential tower; and Cast Iron House, an adaptive reuse of a landmarked 19th-century commercial building. Prior to joining SBA, she worked in the offices of Sou Fujimoto Architects, Atelier Bow-Wow, LTL Architects, and Pickard Chilton Architects.

Laura is the author-editor of Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture (Rizzoli, 2022). The book traces the evolution of 45 wood projects from concept through construction, demonstrating the challenges and merits of wood buildings through essays, technical drawings, and photographs.

As an advocate for environmentally responsible approaches to mass timber, Laura has lectured widely on decarbonization and the benefits of interdisciplinary approaches to design and construction. Most recently, she presented at the AIA International Spring Conference, AIA Colorado Practice + Design Conference, the Center for Architecture, the Skyscraper Museum, and Telluride Art + Architecture. She currently serves on the Steering Committee for the International Mass Timber Conference and is a member of the Colorado Mass Timber Coalition.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University with Distinction in Architecture and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University School of Architecture, where she was a recipient of the Howard Crosby Butler Traveling Fellowship and the Henry Adams AIA Medal.

Laura's CV is available here. 

Steph McIsaac (any pronouns) is a cultural anthropologist, movement artist, and somatic educator. Steph holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology & Critical Theory from UC Berkeley and previously served on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis and Bowdoin College. Steph’s research and writing explores how history lives in the body, and in the ways people and traditions access, express, and transform embodied history through healing practices. Steph’s teaching draws on body-centered and mindfulness-based pedagogies to engage questions of structural oppression, embodiment, performance, community, care, and healing. In addition to teaching anthropology, Steph is an active dance/performance artist and teaches movement, somatics, and meditation across New York.