There has always been a strong tradition of depicting figures through art. Being the fundamental form in a portrait, the human figure also appears central in landscapes, religious, historical and mythological imagery. The human form is immediately intimate and accessible to the viewer while being a tool of scale, composition and narration. The figure dominates each artwork in this selection as each artist as author weaves a tale. Taking the shape of playing children in Mindy Kober's appropriately titled "Role Playing" and "Tall Tale" the figure becomes part of the story telling that is inherent in these selected works. Introduction of a descriptive character can add significant clues about time, place, emotion and action behind the artists motivation. In Carina Lomeli's "Ben Jumping" the figure is abstracted compared to the urban scenery in an effort to depict the motion of the leaping protagonist. Two characters are in the middle of a tense situation in Josh Bernstein's "It Feels So Wrong, It Feels So Right". Works by Bartosz Kolata, Gene Tanta, and Justin Delacuesta utilize creative framing to set the mood and scene. Other times a more abstracted representation tells a different story as in the untamed lines forming a face in the work of Shon Kim and "Forked Tongue" by Jeff Faerber. The figure can also be a personal experience when creating self portraits such in Kystal Kuhn's piece "Harmony" which examines the artists life in balance straddled between two places and the struggle of growing into womanhood. Finally a beautiful yet melancholic work by Kelsey Beckette deals with the inevitable end to our narrative in "Drown".