Leah Medin is a visual artist working in fibers, sculpture, installation, painting and photography. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has attended artist residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Monson Arts, and Kunstkollektivet 8B. She is currently the weaving studio supervisor at Gateway Arts in Brookline, MA.
Bethany Springer
Bethany Springer "The New Frontier" 2019 Steel, cast stainless steel DJI Phantom 4 Advanced drone, cast bronze Klean Kanteen, fiberglass cast on CNC routed foam based on digital quadrant of Mars topographical survey, gold foil emergency thermal blanket, reversible sequin Tyvek suit 90"x50"x50"
Bethany Springer’s installations have been exhibited at venues including 21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville, AR, Maryland Art Place (MAP) in Baltimore, Boston Center for the Arts, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT, the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ, City Gallery East in Atlanta, the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Kansas City Artists Coalition, Full Tilt Creative Centre in Newfoundland, Canada, and The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE. Springer received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Georgia in 2001. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, an Artist Mini Grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a Community Research Award from the University of Arkansas Community and Family Institute, and a Research Grant from the Center for Digital Technology and Learning at Drake University in Des Moines. Springer has been in residence at Full Tilt Creative Centre and Terra Nova National Park in Newfoundland, The Arctic Circle in the International Territory of Svalbard, Norway, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, the Artist House at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences in Georgia, and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, ME. Springer currently lives and works in Fayetteville, Arkansas where she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture at the University of Arkansas.
http://bethanyspringer.com
Bethany Springer "Hunter/Gatherer" 2019 Framed digital Print 53"x38.5"x3" An image of the artist and drone at Fuglefjorden, Svalbard
Kara Springer
Kara Springer is particularly concerned with armature—the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore systems of structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional and political power. Springer holds degrees from the University of Toronto, ENSCI les Ateliers in Paris, and Temple University in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Artists Space New York, TENT Rotterdam, the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts, the National Gallery of the Bahamas, and the National Gallery of Jamaica. She is an alum of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and currently holds a fellowship with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program.
The Earth & All Its Inhabitants (detail), commissioned by Small Axe, 2019
Livien Yin
Livien Yin is an artist working primarily in sculpture and photo-based practices. Yin examines artifacts that unsettle the distribution of power among humans and the natural resources we strive to control. Her recent projects center on the imperial legacies of botanical expeditions, guano harvesting and the Chinese coolie trade. Yin received her BA from Reed College and her MFA from Stanford University. She has been awarded a 2019-2020 Graduate Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts, the 2019 American Austrian Foundation/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the 2019 Anita Squires Fowler Memorial Award in Photography. Yin lives and works in Berkeley, California.
www.livienyin.com
Reinterpretation of the Wardian case, a 19th century transport container used by botanist Robert Fortune to smuggle 20,000 tea plants from China to plantations in India.