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Visiting Artist, Past

George Dielman

Studio Residency: 2019

Originally from Nebraska George Dielman started blowing glass as a teenager.  Over a decade later, he now spends time fabricating glass and helping manage a glass production line based in Brooklyn while also pursuing his own art work. Using glass as his main medium George makes sculpture as well as functional wares. 

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Visiting Artist, Past

Liesl Schubel

Studio Residency: 2019

Liesl Schubel was born in Ontario, Canada in 1990. She moved twice while she was young: first to British countryside, then American. Life in England brought Liesl close to her mother’s upbringing, as Canada had done for her father’s. The memories and landscape of these homes hold deep, sustaining importance in Liesl’s life and practice. As a queer woman, an artist, and a city dweller from rural roots, the complexity of home and of familial histories, relationships, and disputes remain a constant source of inspiration in her practice.

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Visiting Artist, Past

Dean Erdmann

Visiting Artist: 2019

Dean Erdmann's work addresses the politics of place, class, and the body. Erdmann uses still and moving images from found and original footage, and often creates or uses archives as source material. 

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Visiting Artist, Past

Carly Mandel

Visiting Artist: 2019

Carly Mandel is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY. The artist grew up in St Louis, MO, and received her degree from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR in 2015. Her work highlights the experience of being augmented by medicine and synthetic capital objects, including sculptures that focus on capital representations of survival; commodities illustrating the inability to thrive independently, and the subversion of existence.

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Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin

Visiting Artist: 2019

Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin explores the porousness of bodily boundaries and the ceaseless movement of living processes, like fermentation echoing the history of colonialism.

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Phil Vinson

Phil Vinson is an artist and educator working in glass and metal. He began his glass career in 1994 at Tyler School of Art. Phil has spent the last two decades exploring a variety of employment opportunities, constantly learning new skills and techniques for solving “material” problems (how to put things together). He has worked in glass studios as head gaffer, assistant, studio manager, technician and instructor. He has also worked for blacksmiths making parts, assembling and installing small & large scale works.This vast knowledge and experience gives Phil a unique approach to making and problem solving. Since 2011, Phil has been traveling the country extensively, teaching workshops and giving demonstrations on mold blowing & fabricating techniques. He currently lives in Americus, GA, where he is the 3D studio technician at Georgia Southwestern State University.

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