Category: Artist in Residence

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Charlotte Biszewski, b. 1988 in Bristol UK, is an award-winning printmaker, new media artist and researcher. Her work explores collaborative approaches to storytelling, through hybrid obsolete print processes and digital technology. She embraces the changing role of the contemporary artist, accessibly engaging audiences and avoiding traditional gallery spaces.

She is fascinated by the role of print from historical and contemporary perspectives, the implications of its process and permanent qualities in the digital age. Her work involves memories, oral history and storytelling, investigating traditional forms of communication in a networked and globalised world.

Since graduating from an MA in multidisciplinary printmaking in 2013, she led a collaborative multi-faceted project called, Bristol Set in Print. It investigated the role of the industrial print in Bristol, through a series of skill-share workshops, an award-winning documentary and a public installation. In 2017, she moved to Poland on a hunt to discover her family history. Poland with its regard for art and literature and extensive history of underground or ‘second circulation’ print media, inspired further research into the role of censorship and control in digital and print communication.

Currently studying a PhD in Digital and Experimental Print at Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. She was awarded the Visegrad Scholarship 2019, The Rebecca-Smith Award for Fine-Art Printmaking and The WCA Doktoral Award 2019 for her PhD research project.

Miatta Kawinzi is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and educator working with sound, space, images, objects, the body, and language to explore practices of re-imagining the self, identity, and culture through abstraction and poetics. Utilizing analog and digital media, she works with themes of selfhood, diaspora, and belonging.

Born in Nashville, TN to a Liberian mother and Kenyan father and based in NYC, she has presented her work in the US, Mexico, South Africa, France, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, and Liberia. Her work has been presented at the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PopRally, Red Bull Arts Detroit, BRIC, Maysles Cinema, and IFC Center, among other spaces. Kawinzi received an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College and has been awarded artist residencies in spaces including POV Spark in partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture (NYC, DC, and Venice, Italy), Red Bull Arts Detroit (Detroit, MI), Alfred University’s Institute for Electronic Arts (Alfred, NY), the Cité internationale des arts (Paris, France, with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE), and the Bag Factory (Johannesburg, South Africa). She received the 2018 Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant, administered by Queer|Art. Kawinzi additionally works as a museum educator, arts workshop facilitator, and professor of art.