Studio Fellow (2022)
Xingyi Zhao is a Chicago-based artist. She creates prints and handwoven textiles that investigate our relationship with domestic space and everyday objects. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of the 21st century, her work deals with memory, privacy, and a sense of forced optimism with a subtle minimalistic approach. She is currently in her final year as a BFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in printmaking.
Website:
www.instagram.com/dedetcan/
Studio Fellow (2022)
I am a graduate of Northern Illinois University working with relief and lithography. I moved to Colorado for four-ish years, working as a commercial screen printer and doing some studio work on the side. I also spent time there learning 3D and animation. I recently moved back to the area and am trying to get back into print fully. I am an LGBTQ+ artist exploring ideas along that vein with newer work while also using my knowledge of 3D to create mixed media projects.
Website:
loganwoodbury.carbonmade.com/
Studio Fellow (2022)
I am a multimedia artist and a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Printmaking and Visual Communications. Much of my artwork deals with the combination of mediums to process and re-contextualize memories and emotions. I often tie in my multicultural background to my pieces as a way for me to come to a better understanding of my identity. Since graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I have primarily been working at Fulton Market Kitchen as the Marketing Director and Art Director where I have organized a number of gallery shows and live painting events with Chicago artists.
Website:
alekstzander.com/
Studio Fellow (2022)
I am a cartoonist from Skokie, IL. For the past five years, I have been teaching people how to create using technology in public libraries and academic spaces. I started making comics as a teenager and after, as an Orthodox Jewish schoolgirl, I read all of Love and Rockets haven’t been the same since. I went on to study comics and technology at the University of Michigan and have been living in Skokie since I graduated with my tiny, bossy Pitbull, Matilda.
Website:
franniemiller.myportfolio.com/
Studio Fellow (2022)
I am a research-based artist who uses science fiction to talk about humanity’s relationship with nature and the impact this relationship has on food systems. My practice is an extension of my core belief for environmental justice and an examination of the destruction caused by agriculture. These passions are a reflection of my upbringing in rural New Jersey and my parents’ joy for the outdoors. My printmaking and material explorations delve into the extraordinary capabilities of plants and enthuse the vast unknowns of the plant world. I allow my interdisciplinary practice to be dictated by material and earth sciences.
Website:
clarafischer.webflow.io/
Studio Fellow (2022)
golden collier is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago who is deeply inspired by the creative vitality of the margins and places where disciplines, techniques, and ideas overlap.
Website:
diasporansavant.cargo.site/
Fall 2021 Intern
Ariandy Luna is one of the new college interns for the fall 2021 term. She is currently attending her first year at Harold Washington College, and plans to transfer to art school after she earns her associate in arts. Being Latina, a lot of her art consists of different cultural themes that stem from growing up in the Southside of Chicago.
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Brooke White is a Michigander with a penchant for prose and long conversations. Winner of the Hopwood Committee’s Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship for nonfiction, her work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Swamp Ape Review, Entropy, Iron Horse Literary Review, and as Lunch Ticket’s “Amuse-Bouche” feature. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. She’s currently at work on a book of literary nonfiction about desire, transformations, and fairy tales. Her latest ponderings and delights can be found online @brkthewriter
Website:
www.instagram.com/brkthewriter
Classes by this Artist:
From Pen to Paper: Putting Your Writing Into the World
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grace novacek is an illustrator reveling in small fantasies. she welcomes playful comfort + youthful imagination + tender worldbuilding across mediums, including ceramics, crochet, animation, makeup, and poetry.
Services Offered:
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
gnovs.com
