Meet our Make Art Work Artist Residents
Who are our current Make art Work Resident Artists, you ask? *ahem* we’re proud to introduce:
Angelica Credle (she/her) Research is an integral aspect of my practice and has raised conversations of identity and ancestry in search of origin. There is a process of referencing my personal experiences and memories in tandem with collective diasporic experiences. Since the 19th century, quilts were used as tools to preserve African American communities and cultivating perennial communication. Quilting and fabric work is deeply rooted in the experiences of Black women, but has seldom been recognized as historically significant. I’m also working with the concept of the family reunion and other modes of gathering and being as they’ve been long-standing traditions of kinship within the Black community since the 18th century. Exhibiting outside of the art institution and acting on the desire to take up space as a means of subjectivity. Communicating with a wider diaspora is vital in developing an individual identity and being able to activate interactions by exhibiting in accessible spaces. Having had to rely heavily on and nourish intercommunity relationships in the past, I’m exploring the ways we can continue fostering and igniting new familial relationships in the present and imagining new ways of being in community with each other in the future. Installation practice uses a compilation of world-building and developing symbols that can be recognized by a collective as well as creates new imagery for future generations. You can find Angelica’s work HERE.
Carr Meyers (b.1998) (she/they) is an artist and library worker based in Richmond, VA. Through performance, printmaking, sculpture, and writing, they examine and produce overlaps between research and fiction. Carr received a BFA in Sculpture & Extended Media from VCU in 2020. They currently maintain a studio practice, manage two freshwater fish tanks, garden occasionally, and work for the Chesterfield County Public Library. You can find Carr’s work HERE.
Mariana Parisca (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator from the USA and Venezuela. They received an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media department at Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Studio Art and Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. Through a decolonial feminist approach, she creates performances, sculptures, installations, videos, and printed matter that question and redefine the social abstractions that shape value, resource distribution, and consumption in the Americas.
Mariana’s work has shown at rudimento in Quito, Ecuador, NARS Foundation in New York City, the New Wight Biennial in Los Angeles, CA, the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Anderson Gallery, and Cherry Gallery in Richmond, VA, the Virginia MOCA, in Virginia Beach, VA, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO, and New Works Gallery in Chicago, IL among others. They have received various awards including an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Eliot Scholarship, and the Paul F. Miller Scholarship. They have been artist in residence at Nave Proyecto, Vermont Studio Center, the St. Louis Story Stitchers, and Sirocco artist residence. She is critically engaged in shaping art institutions and education and currently teaches photography at University of Richmond. You can find Mariana’s work HERE.
You can learn more about or Make Art Work residency program and submit an application HERE.