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Yu Wei

Studio Fellow (2021)

Yu Wei tells stories through multiple visual approaches. She designs, draws, prints, photographs, writes, and edits. And most importantly, she makes books. Book is the connection between her inner self and the outside world. Now she is just a book artist based in Chicago and Beijing, floating in the cosmos.

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Alex Fox

Studio Fellow (2021)

Alex Fox is a printmaking artist from Des Moines, Iowa via Bulgaria. He recently graduated with honors and distinction from the BFA printmaking program at the University of Iowa. His current area of focus is silkscreen printing on fabric, and he plans on combining this with sculptural elements moving forward. In April 2021, he showcased his first exhibition titled Façade, exploring themes of identity and encompassing a variety of mediums such as oil painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and textiles. As a new graduate, he is looking for opportunities to develop his printmaking career.

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Lily Cozzens

Studio Fellow (2021)

Through the lens of realism and observation, Lily Cozzens’ practice primarily utilizes the medium of drawing to explore and balance the ideas of banality, sincerity, and representation and to create an authentic experience for the viewer. Realism as a practice–and going beyond simple reproduction–embraces the instantaneous and fleeting subjectivity of daily goings-on. She explores and embraces memory and its subjectivity to create third-hand retellings of first-hand experiences. As an attempt at connection with others and with the world around her, she tells her own truth through her work.

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Cam Collins

Studio Fellow (2021)

Cam Collins is a fine artist born in Chicago, IL in 1999. His work conveys ambiguous narratives that revolve around colorful figures and sprawling objects, prompting the viewer to investigate, but also have fun doing so. Collins went from Chicago High School to the Arts and moved on to get his BFA in Printmaking at RISD while working as a studio technician in Benson Hall. He has done his own solo exhibition in Providence titled Colorstroll, and has won various awards from Scholastic and AIGA.

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Christen Whitehouse

Maison Blanche

I am a stationery designer and illustrator with a focus on color, pattern and texture. I work mostly in the wedding world creating fine art wedding stationery for couples who are interested in non-traditional pieces that reflect their unique personalities. I also create custom illustrations and prefer to work in a loose whimsical style.

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• Graphic Design
• Illustration

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Nat Pyper

Nat Pyper is an alphabet artist. They make fonts, write sci-fi, design wearables for videos and performances, and research queer anarcho-punk zines of the 80s and 90s. They are currently a 2021-22 HATCH Artist Resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition.

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• Graphic Design

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Yoonshin Park

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Farnaz Khosh-Sirat

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Latham Zearfoss

Many Happy Returns is part of a larger project, stems, by artist Latham Zearfoss.

Each print is dyed with a natural pigment on the left side, corresponding to a list of things that can be composted. The right side of each print is dyed with a synthetic dye, and corresponds to materials that are not typically composable. The text doubles as both a functional resource list and a poem that meditates on the act of enriching soil with organic waste. This broadside, which is itself compostable, illustrates the ways in which consumption and production are interdependent and always in flux.

Many Happy Returns has been created in two different colorways. The yellow and green broadsides are dyed with turmeric tea on the left side of the paper. The pink and blue broadsides are dyed with beet juice on the left side of the paper. The right sides of both prints are dyed with a synthetic Jacquard ink.

Zearfoss also created a small edition of handmade paper pots, dyed with the same natural pigments as the posters, that housed sunflower seedlings and were ultimately intended to be planted in the ground. These were part of a virtual installation that also included a flickering neon sign and a musical score composed of field recordings from Zearfoss’s creaky South Side home and arranged in the cadence of Chicago’s house music. Sunflowers remediate soil, and for many, house music remediates the soul. These regenerative forms offer up a casual transcendentalism, and anchor stems in the space of meditative communion: on death and rebirth, human and non-human life.

Man Happy Returns, and the stems project, come out of the artist’s own agnostic spiritual journey. Borrowing from Mark Aguhar’s These Are The Axes, Zearfoss wanted to locate an authentic ritual comfort, one that would allow him to “remember death” while grieving with hope; essentially honor the dead as well as the living. Composting is an eternal cycle of transformation, wherein mortality is reckoned with as a vital moment of possibility for the self, the collective, the past, and the future. While this work comes after the loss of Zearfoss’s mother to cancer in early 2020, it is also extrapolating political possibilities from the process of grieving, asking: what must we let die so that other ways and beings might live and thrive? Through Many Happy Returns, Zearfoss states, “I wanted to give a spiritual dimension to the transformations and sunsetting of our institutions in these interwoven racial, environmental and social reckonings. Perhaps it’s just a simple suggestion. Decompose, recompose.”

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Rebecca Wolsten

Rebecca Wolsten received her BFA(2007) and M.A.T. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rebecca worked in NYC as a fashion designer for 11 years before moving back to Chicago to pursue her Master’s of Art in Teaching in 2018.  Rebecca has been printmaking since highschool and has in the last few years fallen in love with Monotypes. She has taken classes and pursued the craft further in her artist practice and is excited to share her skills and techniques with others.  Rebecca currently works as a K-8 Art Teacher for CPS and is excited to explore printmaking in her classroom as well.

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