We congratulate the two young artists selected, Kristina Key and Carissa Kalia Heinrichs, who will receive a grant* for their trainig on electro-etching in the worshop-residence in summer 2019.
• July 14th to 28th, 2019
Kristina Key USA (1993), received her BFA in studio art from Appalachian State University in 2014. She has completed two residencies at Vermont Studio Center and has interned with Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and Zea Mays Printmaking Workshop. Key will be a student artist-in-residence at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art in Wroclaw, Poland this upcoming May. She is currently in her second year of graduate school at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, pursing a Masters degree in printmaking. Kristina Key's website.
• August 15th to September 1st, 2019
Carissa Kalia Heinrichs USA (1991) graduated from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts with a BFA in Intermedia Art and is currently pursuing an MFA at UW-Madison, with a Project Assistant position at Tandem Press. From 2015 to 2016, Carissa was assistant project director to Gallery 224’s ‘Analog Photography: Looking Back and Looking Ahead’ program series for a newly installed public darkroom in Port Washington, WI. In the summer of 2017, Carissa attended the Shiro Oni Artist Residency in Japan and led a public workshop on cyanotype printing. Her work has exhibited in numerous Arizona and Wisconsin galleries, as well as New York, the Gunma Prefecture in Japan, and Berlin. Her processes primarily specialize in experimental printmaking, alternative photographic processes, and fibers. Carissa Heinrichs's website.
*The grant consists of free accommodation for two weeks and the trip to and from the airport to the residence at the beginning and end of the stay, for two artists post-graduates in Fine Arts between 2014 and 2018, under thirty.
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