MAPC 2022 Research Travel and Beyond Awardees
Panel chaired by Alanna Austin
Description
The MAPC biennial grant program supports members whose research necessitates substantial travel expenditures. Due to current travel restrictions, we have renamed the grants "Travel and Beyond" to support projects that happen locally for the applicant. $500 was awarded in the Spring of 2022 for each of the following categories: Undergraduate, Graduate, and Emerging Artist. Recipients will present their funded research findings at this panel.
About the chair
Alanna Austin is a printmaker and multimedia artist currently located Tyler, Texas originally from Boulder, Colorado. She graduated in 2022 with her MFA at the University of Colorado Boulder in Printmaking and in 2018 from the University of Colorado Boulder with BFA emphasizing in Printmaking, a BA in Anthropology and a minor in art history. Austin is the founder of the Western Wilds Collective that acts as a conference for artists to come together on a digital platform once every other year to discuss work and innovative techniques. Alanna Austin is the current co-editor of the Mid America Print Council journal. Currently Austin is teaching at the University of Texas in Tyler as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Studio Art and head of printmaking.
Her main focus within her art practice is diving into the expression of mind and self through understanding dreams and memories past and present in relation to her family history and has been displayed across nationally in galleries across from coast to coast and internationally in Austrailia. Austin recently was featured in a solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum and showed as the guest international artist at the ArtSpace Gallery in Inverloch, Austrailia. Austins work is in archives spanning the United States such as Norlin Special Collection in Boulder, Colorado, Matrix Press in Montana, the Bernard Zuckerman Museum of Art in Georgia, the University of Wyoming Special Collections and more. She has currently participated in over fifty portfolio exchanges and organized exchanges inviting artists from Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and more.
About the Awardees
Undergraduate Award
Emma DeValk is an artist from the Chicago suburbs currently pursuing her BFA in Studio Art: Printmaking from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DeValk's work contemplates the human-nature connection, telling stories from her experiences outside and with others.
Graduate Award
Katheryn Horne (she/her/hers) is a wide range printmaker from Fall River, Wisconsin. Her current work focuses on the reclamation of her indigenous history and culture through printmaking. Horne graduated from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse (UWL) with a BS in Art and a minor in psychology. She is continuing her growth and studies at the University of Colorado Boulder by working towards her MFA with an emphasis in printmaking. She self-organized a solo exhibition, “Unframed”, and co-organized two senior exhibitions, “Inertia//Momentum” and “Trash Talk, et. Al”. Horne was a featured artist in the 2020 and 2021 All Student Juried Art shows at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, as well as at the Campus Climate Hate and Bias Symposium and UWLs Asian, Latina, African, Native American Womxns annual Womxs Dinner. Her prints have been exhibited at the University Gallery in La Crosse, Wisconsin, MoPrint@1101 in Littleton Colorado, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, Tennessee, and more.
Emerging Artist Award
Susanna Harris, based in Columbus, Ohio, is an artist working in print media, installation, and photography. Her work is situated at the intersection of resilience in environmental destruction, and through the human condition. She received her BA from Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio, and her MFA from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. She has received numerous awards, and funding for her work including an Artists: Individuals Fellowship, and an Artists in the Community Professional Development grant, from the Greater Columbus Arts Council as well as awards from Kent State University. She has been an artist in residence for The Otterbein University Post-Baccalaureate A.I.R, Westerville, Ohio; The Lancaster Festival A.I.R, Lancaster, Ohio; Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio; and Zea Mays Printmaking Residency, Florence, Massachusetts.
Time
2-3:30pm Friday
Location
Kent State University School of Art
Center for Visual Arts (CVA)
Room 251
Wearing face coverings and being up-to-date on Covid-19 vaccinations are strongly recommended at this location.