Alumni

Anamaya Farthing-Kohl

Website:anamayafarthingkohl.com

Anamaya Farthing-Kohl, 1988 in La Paz, Bolivia, works with installation, often residing in the public sphere. Her work comes from a place of admiration, mostly of mundane objects that have a large public presence, but that often go unnoticed. Her work comes from a place of admiration, mostly of mundane objects that have a large public presence, but that often go unnoticed. Through making and installing her versions, Anamaya investigates how the object functions as a container. She sees every banal object as a place, a container; a physical space encompassed by the a priori and a posteriori knowledge of the public.

María Leguizamo

Website:www.espacioeldorado.com/maria-leguizamo-ingles

María Leguizamo has dedicated her work to the investigation of la potencia de la minucia (the power of the trifle), the power of things that are fragile and almost invisible and their capacity to generate transformations that go unnoticed by the monumental eye, the guardians of order. She has exhibited internationally in Columbia, Ghana, The United States.

Jeffrey Meris

Born in Haiti in 1991 and raised in the Bahamas, Jeffrey Meris is an artist who earned an AA in Arts and Crafts from the University of The Bahamas, a BFA in Sculpture from Tyler, and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2019. Meris is currently a 2020 NXTHVN Studio Fellow. Meris works across sculpture, installation, performance and drawing to consider ecology, embodiment and various lived experiences while healing deeply personal and historical wounds.

Jess Perlitz

Website: http://www.jessperlitz.com/

Jess Perlitz makes work that is focused on considering landscape and the ways in which we define and seek to recognize ourselves within it. Thinking about how space gets articulated, the projects take many forms - traversing performance, sculpture, and drawing. The work has appeared in a variety of venues such as playgrounds, fields, galleries and museums, including the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Socrates Sculpture Park in NY, Cambridge Galleries in Canada, De Fabriek in The Netherlands, and aboard the Arctic Circle Residency. Born in Toronto, Canada, Jess is a graduate of Bard College, received an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture and clown training from the Manitoulin Center for Creation and Performance. Recently an artist in residence at the Bemis Contemporary Art Center and Vermont Studio Center, Jess is based in Portland, Oregon where she is Assistant Professor of Art and Head of Sculpture at Lewis & Clark College. Her project, Chorus, is currently on view at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.

Kara Springer

Website:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Springer

Kara Springer is a visual artist and industrial designer whose interdisciplinary practice explores precarity and brokenness in systems of structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure and systems of institutional and political power. Originally from the Caribbean, she has lived, worked and studied in Toronto, Paris, Philadelphia and New York. Kara has participated in the prestigious Whitney Independent Study Program and The Core Program (Museum of Fine Arts Houston).

Anissa Mack

Website:anissamack.com

Anissa Mack lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work was recently featured in a solo exhibit at Laurel Gitlen in New York. She has been included in numerous museum exhibitions including group exhibitions at the CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France; ICA Philadelphia; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY; and solo exhibitions at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR; and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA

Strauss Bourque-Lafrance

Website:straussbourquelafrance.com

Strauss Bourque-Lafrance received his MFA in 2010. He was awarded a fellowship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, the following summer. His 2012 exhibitions include; Porch Projects, Washington DC; The ICA, Philadelphia, PA; Airplane Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin TX. He was an Artist in Residence at Judson Memorial, Movement Research, New York, NY. Strauss has been in group shows at White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO and had solo shows at Kansas Gallery, New York, NY, T293, Rome italy and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY where he is represented. Recently he also performed at The Kitchen in Dance and Process.

Lucas Ospina

Since its foundation in 1987, in the city of Cali, the gallery exhibits, promotes and disseminates Colombian contemporary art. A recount of his exhibitions tells of the art that has been done in the country during the last three decades. He also provides advice for the acquisition of works of art. The headquarters of the gallery is a three-storey house located next to the Cali River. The gallery produces four individual annual exhibitions with the artists that are part of its catalog and alternates four other exhibitions of projects by emerging artists.

Since its founding in 1987, in the city of Cali, the gallery exhibits, promotes and spreads the Colombian contemporary art. The exhibitions and artists shown during these years are a good sample of the Colombian art over the past three decades. The gallery also provides consultancy for the acquisition of works of art. The headquarters of the gallery is a three-storey house next to the Cali River. The gallery produces four annual solo exhibitions with artists as part of its catalog, alternating with four other exhibitions of projects by emerging Colombian artists.

http://jennyvila.com/

Hannah Wilke

Website:hannahwilke.com

Hannah Wilke was born in 1940 in New York City to Jewish parents whose parents were Eastern European immigrants. In 1962, she received a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Bachelor of Science in Education from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia. She taught art in several high schools and joined the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New York, where she taught sculpture and ceramics from 1974–1991. From 1969 to 1977, Wilke was in a relationship with the American Pop artist, Claes Oldenburg, and they lived, worked and traveled together during that time. Wilke's work was exhibited nationally and internationally throughout her life and continues to be shown posthumously. One-woman gallery exhibitions of her work were first shown in New York and Los Angeles in 1972. Her first one-woman museum exhibition was held at the University of California, Irvine, in 1976 and her first retrospective at the University of Missouri in 1989. Posthumous retrospectives were shown in Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Malmo, Sweden in 2000 and at the Neuberger Museum of Art in 2009. Since her death, Wilke's work has been shown in one-woman gallery shows, group exhibitions, and several surveys of women's art, including WACK! (www.moca.org) and Elles (www.pompidou.fr).

Emily Kane

Website:Forge and Finish

Emily Kane, BFA

co-owner of Forge and Finish

Forge & Finish represents a union formed by three jewelry designers kindled by the promise of producing handcrafted, built-to-last pieces for people who revel in the culture of collecting beautiful adornments. Traditional and experimental metalsmith technique is the core of the Forge & Finish work space. Often their jewelry reflects inspiration from modern aesthetics, yet embodies a foundation anchored by recapturing or reinterpreting a fondness from the past. The constant balancing throughout the creative process evolves designs that are interconnected and carry a timeless essence. The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based studio is home to Desiree Casimiro, Emily Kane, and Carly Mayer. Together they offerjewelry collections made by a range of materials creating a myriad of options, Their online shop is the perfect place to accessorize a versatile wardrobe and for procuring one-of-a-kind gifts.

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