Contemporary Craft Introduces New National Artists-In-Residence
Contemporary Craft announces their 2024-2025 National Artists-in-Residence. This is their second cohort and includes four short-term (one month) and two long-term (six months) residencies, with artists working across a broad spectrum of craft mediums and techniques. The first resident will start in July 2024.
Amber Doe currently lives and works in Tucson, AZ. She holds a BFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a recipient of the 2023 Night Bloom MOCA Grant for the Warhol Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts Research and Development Grant, 2023 Projecting All Voices Mellon and ASU Fellowship, and the 2021 Abbey Awards Fellowship. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, The LeRoy Neiman Art Gallery, and Untitled Gallery, New York, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids Gabriel Rolt Gallery, Amsterdam, La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires, Snakebite Gallery, Tucson, and UNREPD Gallery, Los Angeles.
Margaret Dugger is an artist currently based in Chicago, IL. Originally trained as an artisan handweaver, she now creates weavings that reflect on the quiet moments of our daily lives. Using the processes of addition, removal, and transformation, Margaret explores concepts of interconnection, the sacred within the mundane, and historical practices brought into the contemporary. She engages with the ancient traditions of textile work and art making, using cloth and thread as her medium.Since pursuing her bachelor's degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her work has branched out into new mediums including paper, sculpture, and book arts.
Christy Georg is an Artist / Adventurer. She has worked as a deckhand aboard schooners, thru-hiked the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail and 500 mile Colorado trail, and cruised the Arctic. Her work is inspired by travel and historical research into desolate and harsh natural environments and sites of wonder, like the American ‘Wild’ West and the Arctic. Courage, endurance, and fortitude are recurring themes in her artwork, studio practice, and life. As a sculptor, her trans-disciplinary practice incorporates performance, video, photography, drawing, installation, research, and writing.
Magnus(Magy) Hara is a non-binary multimedia craftsperson with a specialty in ceramics currently living and working in Hamilton, Ontario. They use handbuilding and wheel throwing in their studio practice to create works suitable for a range of firing temperatures and atmospheres. Material exploration is at the forefront of their practice, always finding new questions to ask with clay and exploring the limits of the material.
Julia Harrison is a North Carolina-based artist and educator specializing in jewelry and sculpture. While her scale, material, and imagery are wide-ranging, her work is consistently concerned with the act of paying attention. She challenges herself to look closely and without judgment, create forms with all the care and respect she can exert. Julia hopes that the resulting work invites viewers to pause and observe without preconceptions. She has previously been a resident artist at the Penland School of Craft, the Museum of Art in Wood, and the Bunnell Street Art Center.
Carly Owens Weiss is a multidisciplinary artist based in Boulder, Colorado. She received her BAD in Art + Design from North Carolina State University and studied crewelwork and goldwork hand embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework in the United Kingdom. In her current work, Carly uses hand embroidery, painting and soft sculpture to explore gender and identity through a personal and symbolic lens. Carly’s work has been featured in numerous publications including Architectural Digest (Germany), Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, BUST Magazine, The American Scholar and Frankie Magazine. She has exhibited work in institutions such as the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), the Bomb Factory Arts Foundation (London, UK), the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, CO) and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE). She has recently completed residencies at John C. Campbell Folk School (Brasstown, NC), Penland School of Craft (Penland, NC) and Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), where she was awarded full fellowships.