Cycle 3 Grantees

Devin T. Mays (b. Detroit, MI) is an artist interested in the here and there of things. He uses sculpture, installation, performance and pictures for pleasure. He often refers to his practice as a place for things to become Things.

Mays has exhibited and performed at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna; The Power Station, Dallas; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; gta exhibitions, Zürich; Sweetwater, Berlin; F Gallery, Houston; SculptureCenter, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Regards, Chicago among others. 

Mays is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Rice University. 

Photo: Morgan Mueller

John Riepenhoff was born and resides in Milwaukee, where he founded The Green Gallery. Riepenhoff engineers art to serve as connective tissue between cultural entities. He established the Beer Endowment in 2014 to support and advocate for artist-run organizations. Riepenhoff pays homage to other artists, creating renditions of their work. As an artist, he uses his own platform to uplift others and acknowledges the influences of community and collaboration in the process of making. Riepenhoff also ideated Double Cream Colby Cheese, started the Milwaukee International Art Fair, administers The Open Fund, and paints the night sky in the dark.

Photo: Daniel McCullough

Rachel Shelton centers an experimental and process-based practice around printmaking, expanding into book arts, enamel, public art, and sculpture. She received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from SUNY at Buffalo. Her work has been most recently exhibited in the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and at Hunt Art Gallery. 

Rachel is also a Co-Founder and collaborative printer at Mirabo Press, a fine art printmaking studio in Buffalo, NY. While she spends a good deal of time making solo work in her studio, collaboration and facilitation are also at the heart of Rachel’s practice. From making collaborative work with fellow artists to facilitating and printing the work of many artists through her print shop, the collective energy of community drives her practice forward and outward.

Dana Murray Tyrrell is an artist, curator, and writer from Niagara Falls, New York. Tyrrell was a 2024 Kinetic Grantee with the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art's Generator Fund. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Castellani Art Museum, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, University at Buffalo Department of Art, and the Pride Center of Western New York.

Recent solo exhibitions include Love Canal at the Earl W. Brydges Library (2024-25), Floater at Kingfish Gallery (2021), and Blue at the Castellani Art Museum (2017). He has contributed to group exhibits across Western New York including at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (2014), the Burchfield Penney Art Center (2021, 2023), and ECHO Art Fair (2016). He currently works at the Burchfield Penney with past roles at Rivalry Projects, the Niagara Arts & Cultural Center, Castellani Art Museum, and former Albright-Knox Art Gallery.