Brian Ragsdale Studio LLC
Brian L. Ragsdale PhD is a mixed media artist primarily using acrylic paints, marker, and cut paper. He became interested in art in the 5th grade when his teacher taught him about negative space. In the early 1980’s, he received his BS in fine arts and graphic design from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, where he was voted the Outstanding Student in Art, and worked for 15 years as a corporate and freelance graphic designer in South Norwalk, CT. Over this period, he worked with IBM, Pepsi Cola and several organizations designing logos, newsletters, brochures, and other graphics and advertisements. He was also a trained typographer and illustrator. In the late 1980s, he won an outstanding mention for a watercolor of a sailboat from an Stamford Art Club exhibition. In 2013 his mixed media painting, “Cows of Cornish” was accepted in a juried art exhibit in the Richards Library Art Center in his previous hometown of Newport, NH. His latest work examines themes of African American beauty particularly women of color, identity, and art with social justice themes relating to freedom, joy, and happiness.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
brianragsdalestudio.com
siteations studio
Trained as a ‘researcher’ and a ‘maker,’ I aspire to craft environments, graphics, and applications that inform and invite engagement. As an illustrator, my passion is integrating big(ish)-data with visual narratives and geographic expression. A curious and creative designer, I move fluidly between places, pop-ups, prints, and full-stack web development. Ultimately, I love drawing out cultural connections and footprints across mediums. I welcome commissions and work well in a collaborative studio environment, creating intense, inquisitive, and impactful designs for wider audiences.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.siteations.com
Resident Artist
Andrew Bearnot (MFA, University of Chicago) is a self described “materialist”: he thinks with and through the substance of things. Informed by a background in material science (ScB, Brown University) and glass (BFA, Rhode Island School of Design), Bearnot explores moments of transcendence in the everyday. He was awarded fellowships from Fulbright and the American-Scandinavian Foundation for research on glass-making traditions in Sweden and Denmark and has been an artist-in-residence at the Hyde Park Arts Center (Chicago, IL), Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and Creative Glass Center of America (Millville, NJ).
Image: Long Division, Installation, 2018
Website:
andrewbearnot.com/
Residency Period:
Mar 2020–Mar 2020
Genie Hong (b. 1997) is a print and fiber artist based in Los Angeles and Chicago. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019.
Genie has shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Adds Donna Gallery, and has books in the Joan Flasch Special Collections. They are a founding member of the publishing collective, West Coast Friendship Club.
Website:
g3ni3.com/
