DiCaprio's work in jewelry and sculpture combines traditional metalsmithing with wood carving techniques.
2015-16
Matt Bollinger is a painter currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
Mark Dion’s spectacular and often fantastical curiosity cabinets, modeled on Wunderkammen of the 16th Century, exalt atypical orderings of objects and specimens.
From Kalpakjan's early sculpture and installations through his seminal computer generated images and videos, he has consistently addressed issues of technology, surveillance, architecture, and social control.
Clark's work has been exhibited in over 300 museums and galleries in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
Hatch’s craft is finely honed, her designs are whimsically literal, and her art is pop-culturally on-point.
Besant's recent projects include The 2015 Cerveira International Sculpture Biennial in Portugal, solo exhibitions for Nuit Blanche in Paris, and a feature exhibition for The Edinburgh International Art Festival Scotland 2015.
Rose is a Senior Designer at IDEO.org, she explores and identifies opportunities for empathy and responds to them through the design of products, services, and experiences.
Patrick Nagatani is a professor emeritus in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico.
Allison Smith has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1995. She has produced over 25 solo exhibitions, installations, performances, and artist-led participatory projects.
2016-17
Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, Africana Studies, where she teaches courses on photography and imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender.
The primary medium for Hannah Bertram’s temporary decorative installations is dust, but her practice also includes site-responsive installations, drawing, video, performance and spoken word.
“I see the underlying simultaneous similarity and differences in the structures and patterns of organic form from the macro to the micro.”
Ester Partegàs is a visual artist and educator. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues such as the Sculpture Center, LIC, NY; the Whiteny Museum of American Art at Altria, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Arnolfini, Bristol; the Moscow, Athens and Busan Biennials; among others.
Liz Ingram and Bernd Hildebrandt
Berndt Hildebrandt’s interest in writing poetry has sparked a number of collaborations with Liz Ingram in which his poems are integrated into the fabric of her large-scale images and installations. These are meant to compliment and provide a sensual context to the elemental nature of her images. Hildebrandt’s understanding of scale and structure has also given her images a dimensional resonance that confronts and engages the viewer.
Lisa Vinebaum is an artist, critical writer, and educator. Working acros practice and theory, her work explores collectivity and intersubjective relationships, working conditions and workers’ rights, and the value of artistic labor.
Mariko Takeuchi is a photography critic, independent curator and associate professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Yosuke Inoue was born in Yamanashi, Japan and completed his art education at Indiana University when he received his MFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design at Indiana University in 1990. He works predominately with non-ferrous metals to create one of a kind jewelry and objects used in our everyday life. He works as a self-employed artist to make a living from exhibiting and selling through galleries in Japan and internationally.
Mark Tribe is an artist whose drawings, photographs, installations, videos and performances explore the relationship between culture and technology.
Denise Gonzales Crisp is a designer, writer, educator, curator, and author of Graphic Design in Context: Typography (Thames&Hudson, 2012). She is Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Graphic and Industrial Design, College of Design, North Carolina State University, and is the Director of the Master of Graphic Design (MGD) program. Denise arrived at NC State in 2002 to serve as Department Chair. Prior to this appointment, Denise was the Senior Designer at Art Center College of Design, and a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts masters program.
Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk, a graduate of the Otis/Parson’s Art Institute, deals with contemporary life in its entirety in his work, with an emphasis on social issues. Frequently developed as expansive, multi-media projects, themes in his work have included inner city violence, graffiti, social and political issues, travel, war, prisons, Islam, surfing, and skateboarding
Paul Wackers was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1978. He graduated with his BFA from Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC, and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Wackers has exhibited nationally and internationally in Belgium, Canada, San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY.
2017-18
Tetsuya Noda (Japan) is widely considered to be Japan's most important living print-artist. Born in Kumamoto Prefecture, he studied at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music where re completed the graduate course in 1965 and where he also taught: 1978-2007.
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Painting
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung was born in 1975 in Los Gatos, CA, and lives and works in Connecticut. She received her MFA in 2007 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Maria Davila + Eduardo Portillo: Textiles
María Dávila & Eduardo Portillo, live and work in Mérida, Venezuelan Andes. Textile Artists, devoted together since 1983 to the silk world, fibers and natural dyes. They are interested in experiences, materials and process that bear the imprint of people and places.
Emmet Gowin: Photography | A Shared Elegy
Gowin’s first body of photographic work centers on his family and their home in Virginia. In the 1960s Gowin studied with Harry Callahan at the Rhode Island School of Design, and like Callahan, who photographed his wife Eleanor, Gowin found inspiration in his own wife, Edith.
Beesley’s (FRAIC OAA RCA, visual artist, architect) research focuses on next-generation architecture that asks fundamental questions: can architecture feel, and care? Beesley’s practice includes multiple crafts of architecture, sculpture, industrial design, instrument making, and mechatronics.
Rodrigo Sastre: McKinney International Resident
Rodrigo Sastre lives in Mexico City. His work deals with comic books, science fiction and art history references. Since he was a child, he was caught by the world of American comics. He became interested in Art as a way to develop his drawing skills. Meanwhile collecting comics, he assumed Art as his profession and looked at the ways to maintain both interests.
Ghost of a Dream: Creative Core
Ghost of a Dream began their collaboration in 2007 after meeting at Rhode Island School of Design where they both received their Masters Degree (Was in Sculpture, 2004 and Eckstrom in Painting, 2005). Among their most recent exhibitions they have participated in is State of the Art”, a traveling museum exhibition.
Martin Venezky: Graphic Design
Martin Venezky first gained renown in 1995 for the design of Speak Magazine. With his firm Appetite Engineers, Venezky continues his dedication to craft, process and detail while colliding the handmade with the digital. In 1997, he was among I.D. magazine’s “ID40” list of influential designers.
Timothy Lazure is a Professor in the Metals Design program at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. He received his BFA at Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. His body of work is diverse in scope—including jewelry, flatware and hollowware, furniture, and sculptural pieces.
Kendall Buster first studied microbiology and received a BS degree in Medical Technology before pursuing an education in art. She earned a BFA degree from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University as well as participating in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Studio Program in New York City.
Ferrin Contemporary specializes in ceramic art circa 1950 – present. Originally established in 1979 by director, Leslie Ferrin, the business began as a gallery program, evolving over thirty years at various traditional gallery spaces and through participation in international art fairs. As gallery director, Ferrin became known as a curator and project manager working in support of represented artists and in partnership with commercial galleries. Ferrin Contemporary has been the preferred source for artwork by established and emerging artists and designers whose primary medium is clay, for private collectors, institutions and the media.
2018-19
Isabelle Le Minh: International McKinney Resident
After a degree in Materials Science Engineering, Isabelle Le Minh settled in Berlin in 1989 to work as a patent engineer. She finally left behind her career to attend the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles in 1993. Le Minh teaches at the Rouen High School of Art and is also a curator. She is represented by the Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris.
Amie Siegel works variously between film, photography, performance and installation. Recent solo exhibitions include the South London Gallery; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Audain Gallery, Simon Frasier University, Vancouver, B.C.; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and the MAK, Vienna. She lives and works in New York City.
Carole Frances Lung is an artist, soft power guerilla activist, and Associate Professor of Fashion Fiber and Materials, at California State University Los Angeles. Through her alter ego Frau Fiber, Carole activates a vocabulary of fashion and textile production and consumption, crafting of one of a kind garments, installations, performances, and social sculpture, paying homage to labor, textile and apparel manufacturing histories and contemporary production systems.
Tucker Marder is an artist and filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles. Working in a wide range of mediums including puppetry, documentary and landscape design, Tucker’s work uses humor and absurdity to promote an exuberant environmental ethic.
Sarah Perkins received her BA at San Diego State University and her MFA at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale and is a Professor at Missouri State University. She is currently serving as a Board Member of the Enamelist Society and on the Collections Committee at the Ornamental Metal Museum.
UnderConsideration: Graphic Design
UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work, run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Bloomington, IN.
Anne Wilkes Tucker: Photography
Anne Wilkes Tucker was born in 1945 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and studied at Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1967 she received a B.A. in Art History and then went on to receive an AAS in Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1972, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photographic History from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York that was part of the State University of New York, Buffalo.
Josephine Halvorson is an artist based in Massachusetts. She is currently Professor of Art and Chair of the Graduate Studies in Painting area at Boston University. Halvorson’s work has been exhibited widely and is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, and Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris.
Karen Kunc is a Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she has taught since 1983. She received her BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her MFA from Ohio State University.
AES+F is an artist collective of four Russian artists: Tatiana Arzamasova (1955), Lev Evzovich (1958), Evgeny Svyatsky (1957), and Vladimir Fridkes (1956). Deploying a sophisticated, poetic dialogue among sculpture, painting, drawing and architecture, and plumbing the depths of art history and other cultural canons, AES+F’s grand visual narratives explore the values, vices and conflicts of contemporary culture in the global sphere.
Syd Carpenter is a ceramics and mixed media sculptor who teaches studio art at Swarthmore College. Her recent work from the last several years focuses on ceramic portraits of African American farms and gardens. Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where her grand mother and mother were avid gardeners, she continues the legacy of gardening at her home and studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2019-20
As an artist, Paul Coldwell’s practice includes prints, book works, sculptures and installations, focusing on themes of journey, absence and loss. He has exhibited widely, his work included in numerous public collections, including Tate, V&A, British Museum, the Arts Council of England and Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva.
Jess T. Dugan (American, b. 1986 Biloxi, MS) is an artist whose work explores issues of identity, gender, sexuality, and community. She received her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2014), her Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from Harvard University (2010), and her BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2007).
German-born Ghanaian artist living in the United States, Yvonne Osei is hyperaware of her hybridity and position as both an outsider and an insider. She describes herself as an outsider artist making insider art, referencing her West African roots while acknowledging her close to six years living in St. Louis, Missouri. Yvonne works in photo, video, performance, digital print and installation.
Dirk Staschke is a full time studio artist who is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ceramics. His current body of work explores the space in between sculpture and painting and often uses meticulous representation as foil for examining skill and craft.
Pavel Ignatev grew up in a family of artists as a third-generation sculptor. He is most well-known for his monument to the architect Domenico Trezzini in St. Petersburg, Russia and the monument to Ğabdulla Tuqay in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan. For Ignatev, sculpture is the most ancient form of art that deals with the issue of the form in space.
Debbie Millman: Graphic Design
Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, curator and host of the podcast Design Matters.
CANCELED | Trenton Doyle Hancock: Painting
This McKinney Visiting Artist Lecture event with Trenton Doyle Hancock has unfortunately been canceled. Please check back for a possible rescheduled event for the Painting area.
McKinney International Art + Design Resident, Ana Maria Gomez Lopez
Ana María Gómez López creates durational and body-based projects based on self-experimentation and archival research in the history of science.
CANCELED | Cappy Counard: Metalsmithing + Jewelry Design
Due to the rapidly evolving novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, and with the health and safety of our community in mind, the McKinney Lecture with Cappy Counard has been canceled.
We are delighted to announce that our McKinney Visiting Artist Series lecture with Jen Bervin will now be held via Zoom.
CANCELED | Christiane Paul: Digital Art
Due to the rapidly evolving novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, and with the health and safety of our community in mind, the McKinney Lecture with Christiane Paul has been canceled. The Eskenazi School is exploring ways to reschedule or host this event digitally, and details will be shared here in the event that we are able to accommodate these changes.
2020-21
Born in Mexico City, Harrsch has lived in several cities throughout the country, as well as Italy, Germany, and Brazil; for the past fourteen years she has lived and worked in New York City. She has been defined as a multidisciplinary artist, employing traditional mediums along with new media and technologies to articulate her concepts and interests.
Deborah Jack, (1970) is an artist whose work is based in video/sound installation, photography, painting and text. As a multi-media artist she engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of cultural memory, climate change while negotiating a global present.
Trenton Doyle Hancock: Painting
For almost two decades, Trenton Doyle Hancock has been constructing his own fantastical narrative that continues to develop and inform his prolific artistic output.
Indira Allegra’s work explores memorial as a genre and a vital part of the human experience. Allegra re-imagines what a memorial can feel like and how it can function through the practices of performance, sculpture and installation.
Christiane Paul is Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Patricia Villalobos Echeverria: Printmaking
Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, a professor at Western Michigan University, has a hybrid practice of prints, photos, installations and participatory projects that pivot around issues of migration, navigation, displacement and transformation.
Austin Ballard received his MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and BFA from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, where he also served as an Assistant Professor in Textiles.
Cappy Counard: Metalsmithing + Jewelry Design
Cappy Counard creates jewelry and vessels that honor detail and interconnection. The content of her pieces reflect on memory, observation, potential and realization: what we notice, what persists, the things we hold and the things that hold us.
Marcia Lausen is Director of the School of Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago and founder of the Chicago office of Studio/lab.
James C. Watkins is a ceramic artist who has worked with clay for over 40 years. Watkins’ work has been widely exhibited in 40 solo exhibitions and 164 group exhibitions.
2021-22
John Hitchcock is an award-winning artist who uses the print medium to explore relationships of community, land, and culture.
Hagler was born at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho in 1979 and is a first-generation college graduate with a visual communications degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann: Creative Core
Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann creates large scale paintings and paper installations that examine mythology, identity, and landscape.
Stephen Hilyard is an artist and Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He creates artwork in a wide range of media both digital and traditional.
Sunkoo Yuh was born in Korea. He received his BFA degree from Hong Ik University, Seoul, and his MFA degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, NY.
Alex Frost: McKinney International Art and Design Resident
Humorous and tongue in cheek, Alex Frost's haptic art captures an optimized and energized life ‘on-the-go’ reflecting on the rapid transitions in daily life and super-convenience products.
Gina Adam's cross-media studio work includes the reuse of antique quilts and broken treaties between the United States and Native American tribes, sculpture, ceramics, painting, printmaking and drawing.
Ben Blount is a Detroit born artist, designer and letterpress printer that loves books, type, and putting ink on paper. He is best known for work that explores questions of race, identity and the stories we tell ourselves about living in America.
Gluklya uses clothes as a tool to build a connection between art and everyday life. Addressing the personal stories of her characters, she analyzes the conflict between the inner world of a person and the political system.
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations.
Susie Ganch: Metalsmithing + Jewelry Design
Susie Ganch is a first-generation American artist of Hungarian heritage. She is a sculptor, jeweler, and educator living in Richmond, VA.
2022-23
Paul S. Briggs is a Boston-based ceramics artist who creates clay forms that address issues of mass incarceration, community, beauty, and resilience.
Nicole Dotin is a typeface designer and partner at the Process Type Foundry, an independent type design studio in Minnesota, USA. In 2018, she launched Alphacrit, a bi-monthly, online typeface critique session via the Alphabettes, sparking the online type crit revolution.
Wuon-Gean Ho's practice encompasses printmaking, animation, and book arts, and she exhibits her prize-winning works widely in the UK and abroad.
Ben Cuevas is a multifaceted fiber artist, artistic director, graphic design, performance artist, and activist.
Tiare Ribeaux/Jody Stillwater: Digital Art
Tiare Ribeaux and Jody Stillwater collaborate on speculative video artwork, the creation of bio plastics, 3d scanning, VR/AR, and more.
Multimedia artist Christopher K. Ho picks up threads of 1990s identity politics and weaves them into unlikely new patterns using objects, installation, photography and sound. The Hong Kong-born artist is the Executive Director of the Asia Art Archive, a nonprofit that collects and disseminates resources related to contemporary Asian art.
Akirash: McKinney International Artist in Residence
Akirash creates immersive experiences that explore contemporary issues and subjective experiences relating to identity, immigration, race, religion, and gun violence.
Yuri Kobayashi is a furniture maker and sculptor based in Camden, Maine whose knowledge of traditional Japanese woodworking techniques informs her sculpture, installation, and furniture design.
Kei Ito is a is a visual artist working primarily in cameraless photography and installation art. His work addresses intergenerational loss and connections as he explores the materiality and experimental processes of photography. Ito’s work is featured in “Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now” at the Eskenazi Museum of Art February 16–July 9, 2023.
Thomas Madden’s work is informed by traditions of decorative metalwork, vessel making, and storytelling. Professor and section head of metalsmithing and jewelry at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Madden creates structures that invite memory association and implore intimacy.
Saša Bogojev is a Croatian-born art writer and curator living in the Netherlands. With a focus on contemporary painting, Bogojev is committed to discovering young and underrecognized talent and finding works that span high art and vernacular art practice.
2023-24
Barbara Tannenbaum: Photography
Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography and Chair, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Cleveland Museum of Art presents “$40,000 Per Square Inch: Has Success Spoiled Photography?”
Brad Vetter is a Louisville, Kentucky-based graphic designer and letterpress printer who has worked at the legendary Hatch Show Print and whose tools range from antique presses to laser engravers.
A finalist for the 2018 Neddy Award in Painting, David Hytone’s images are constructed from hundreds of individual pieces of hand-painted paper. In his talk, Hytone will elucidate the complex studio process that informs the thematic thrust of his work.
Reinhold Engberding: Mixed-Media/Sculpture/Installation
“Reinhold Engberding is not a traditional sculptor but he makes coherent spatial artworks with a meaning that transcends the mere situation." (Arie Hartog, Bremen 2011) The German sculptor and object maker crochets black cotton and works with second-hand clothes to address issues of identity and intimacy, privacy, longing, and desire.
Curtis Hidemasa Arima is a metalsmith who is drawn to the transformative nature of materials and how they hold memory, emotion, and history.
Lauren Fensterstock: Impermanent Conditions
Lauren Fensterstock creates elaborate sculptures and installations in media traditionally associated with women exploring the evolving history of our relationship to nature through the merging of an environmental and metaphysical landscape.
Roos van Haaften: Shadow Laboratory
Roos van Haaften presents “Shadow Laboratory," a talk about the light works she will be making during her Bloomington residency in response to IU's Astronomy Glass Photographic Plate Collection, which includes glass negatives of stars, galaxies, and black holes.
Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan: Touch Praxis
Please note: the artists have cancelled their visit and talk.
Artists Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan will introduce their collaborative work “ Touch Praxis, ” a collaborative research project exploring touch as a time-based medium and a collective system for embodied learning.
Please note: the artist has cancelled her visit and talk.
Theresa Ganz makes landscapes and interiors in the form of collage, video, and installation. Her work blends a 19th-century Romantic vision of the individual in nature with a 21 st - century lived experience mediated by screens.
Endi Poskovic: Dream and the Paradox of Image
In his print series “Dream,” Endi Poskovic explores the boundaries of print media via the expanded process of visualization, art making, and storytelling.
Dan Vlček + Tom Kotik are trans-disciplinary artistic collaborators whose joint sound installations are complex works of art in which individual contributions are blurred.
In her whimsical, rustic, and functional pottery, Sunshine Cobb seeks to evoke both nostalgia for home and the sense of wanderlust that has informed her own life and visual sensibilities. Author of the 2018 book “Mastering Hand Building,” the Helena, Montana-based artist is an online business model innovator and a leading advocate for functional art in modern living.
2024-25
Born in Mali and raised in France, Aboubakar Fofana is an internationally exhibiting, multidisciplinary artist and designer whose working mediums include calligraphy, textiles, and natural dyes. Anchored in the belief that nature is divine, Fofana undertakes artmaking as a spiritual practice. He is currently involved in creating a farm in Mali to help reinvigorate the indigenous West African indigo culture.
Donté K. Hayes: Future Artifacts
Donté K. Hayes processes history through ceramics. His clay sculptures are informed by his research into traditional African heirlooms and initiation rites of birth, adulthood, marriage, eldership, and ancestry, together with his interest in science fiction and hip-hop culture. The resulting “modern artifacts” document the past and present to initiate healing and understanding for the future.
Nathan Meltz, Evolutionary Robotics: Automatons Across Graphic Media
Graphic artist Nathan Meltz uses printmaking, animation, sculpture, and performance to draw attention to the ways technology infiltrates every facet of life, from farms and food to family and war. Punk, politics, and machine collage combine to tell stories about the inevitable robot invasion, and plans for resistance.
Interdisciplinary artist Dakota Mace uses alternative photography techniques, weaving, papermaking, and beadwork to address and explore her relationship to her Diné (Navajo) heritage, exploring themes of family lineage, community, and identity. Mace has worked with numerous institutions to develop dialogue on cultural appropriation and the importance of Indigenous design work.
Laura Anderson Barbata will discuss her development as a socially engaged, transdisciplinary artist who works with multiple performers and artisan communities across the Americas to present collaborative ¨interventions¨ that combine political activism, street theater, textile arts, dance, music, spoken word, papermaking, and zines to bring attention to civil, indigenous, and environmental rights issues.
Julie Heffernan is an American painter whose artwork has been described by writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting" and by The New Yorker as "ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist." Heffernan’s graphic memoir "Babe in the Woods" (Algonquin Press) was published in 2024.
Baseera Khan: Aesthetic Civil Obedience
Baseera Khan is a New York-based multidisciplinary installation artist whose work explores the relationships between surveillance and desire, and what is created and what is experienced, to discuss civil obedience within public and private spaces.
Celene Aubry, Hatch Show Print: 145 Years of Letterpress Lore, One Poster at a Time
Celene Aubry is director and print shop manager at Hatch Show Print, the 145-year-old letterpress poster and design shop in Nashville, Tennessee known for its twentieth-century country music posters.
McKinney International Artist-in-Residence Thu Kim Vu works at the intersection of calligraphy and light sculpture. The artist, who is based in Hanoi, Viet Nam and inspired by her wide travels, uses Vietnamese Zo paper, Japanese Washi, Chinese ink brush, and LED light to explore and modify temporary spaces. Vu will be in residence at the Eskenazi School from February 1 through March 15.
Chelsea Thompto: Art and Speculative (Trans) Futurity
A transdisciplinary artist and educator working at the intersection of art, trans studies, and technology, Chelsea Thompto moves ideas between and across materials and modes of working to explore form and concept. An assistant professor of creative technologies at Virginia Tech who has shown and published her work nationally and internationally, Thompto works in code, video, sound, book making, writing, and sculpture.
Masako Hamaguchi: A Personal History of an Ex-dedicated Outener
Masako Hamaguchi’s jewelry evinces her passion for symbols as a means of communication. The theme is a function of numerous international moves, necessitating the acquisition of entire new sets of languages—spoken, written, visual, and gestural. Born in Tokyo and educated as an artist in Michigan and the Netherlands, Hamaguchi delights in bringing out the hidden or unexpected properties of a given material.