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FIELD/WORK Residency 2017-2018
Artist Mentors
Artist Residents
Alexandra Antoine
Alexandra Antoine is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses the themes of identity and culture through the use of typography, line and portraiture.
Allen Moore
Allen Moore is a Chicago based Educator, Curator, Painter, and Experimental Sound Artist.
Allison Ellingson
Allison (Hales) Ellingson is an artist based in Chicago working primarily with textiles and the social fabric.
Beth Bradfish
Beth Bradfish (composer and sound artist) explores contemporary acoustic and electronic sounds.
Connie Noyes
Connie Noyes’ interdisciplinary art practice examines social constructions and assigned values of idealized beauty and value.
Denise Hoover
Denise Hoover is an artist discovering that making art is a silent conversation on many levels, an awareness of internal and external nuances that prompt her to create.
Fontaine Capel
Fontaine Capel is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and facilitator.
Lindsey Dorr-Niro
Through her work, Chicago-based artist Lindsey Dorr-Niro aims to make art a practice of critical consciousness, calling viewers deeper into themselves and relation with the world.
Matthew Nicholas
Using performance, video and sculptural installations, Matthew Nicholas' work focuses on the relationships between identities, iconography and the social complexities that have shaped American culture.
Monica Rezman
Monica Rezman is an artist working with textiles, paint and embroidery to create a series of paintings and sculptures that speak about her collective experience.
Monica Trinidad
Monica Trinidad is a queer, Latinx artist & organizer born and raised on the southeast side of Chicago.
Nora Sharp
Nora uses choreography, words, and melody to delineate and unspool patterns of contemporary existence-often those that govern gender, popular culture, and relationship dynamics--and point to possibilities for queer reimagining.
Orkideh Torabi
Orkideh Torabi make paintings that lampoon patriarchal societies, depicting men as absurd clown-like figures, drawing attention to the personal, political and social issues facing women.
Sandra Bridges
Sandra Bridges is primarily an oil painter. Sandra is known for creating emotionally charged paintings—be it her ability to capture the energy of a jazz performance or the strength of character on a subjects face.
Santina Amato
Santina Amato is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates video, sculpture, installation, painting and photography.
Simon Pyle
Simon Pyle’s work deals with preservation and loss in the digital age. His aesthetic is influenced by imaging technologies: the shape of LCD pixels, the compression of a jpeg file, or a low-resolution image used for computer-vision and facial recognition. With an intermedia approach, his work draws on the fundamental units and idioms of technology.
Susan Dwyer
Susan Dwyer is an artist interested in making sculpture that elicits tactile curiosity.
Tracie Hayes
Tracie’s work considers the ecological address, the vulnerability and stability of ecosystems, the process of ecology, and the communication of scientific findings.
Udita Upadhyaya
Udita Upadhyaya is an interdisciplinary artist who uses her body as a primary material for making.
Her work spans live art, devised theatre, performative photographs, sculpture, installation, video, writing, text, and fiber arts.
Yewen Dong
Yewen's art practice spans sculpture, ceramics, papermaking, video, painting, and drawing.
Guest Speakers
Bianca Marks
Bianca Marks is founder of Marks on Canvas, a Chicago-based boutique agency that specializes in strategic creative content, marketing media, project management and public relations for clients engaged in the arts.
Caroline Stearns
Caroline Stearns is the Director of THE MISSION, a contemporary art gallery located in West Town that represents artists from the United States and Latin America.
Christa Donner
Christa Donner is an American artist, writer, and organizer exploring the human/animal condition and its metaphors.
Cortney Lederer
Cortney Lederer is an independent curator and art consultant with sixteen years of experience managing an array of artistic programming for organizations and businesses.
Dana Bassett
Dana Bassett is the Development Director for ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions).
Duncan MacKenzie
Duncan MacKenzie is an Artist, Pundit, Educator and a Founder of Bad at Sports (B@S) podcast and website.
Felicia Holman
Felicia Holman is a co-founder of both the Art Leaders of Color Network ('ALCN') and Honey Pot Performance (‘HPP’), and she is also Communication Director at Chicago's venerable Links Hall.
Jason Pallas
Jason Pallas is an artist, archivist, curator, and educator primarily concerned with projects at the intersection of the personal, the popular, and the political.
Jordan Martins
Jordan Martins is a Chicago based visual artist, curator, educator, and musician.
Kalena Chevalier
Kalena Chevalier currently serves as the Program Director for the Cultural Grants Program at the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Kate Schutta
Kate Schutta is an artist, educator, and Director of Career and Professional Experience (CAPX) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson is the founder of Starkweather, designer, creative strategist and fashion advocate.
Mark Jeffery
Mark Jeffery is a Chicago based performance/installation artist, curator and educator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nikki Patin
Nikki Patin is the Community Arts Engagement Manager for Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago.
Patti Gilford
Patti Gilford is an art advisor and the founder of Patti Gilford Fine Arts (*PGFA*).
Rashayla Marie Brown
Lauded as a 2017 Artadia Awardee, artist-scholar Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) manages a living studio practice across an extensive list of cultural production modes, including photography, performance, writing, drawing, installation, and video art.
Rebecca Parker
Rebecca Parker is the Program Director at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency.