The Foundation is pleased to provide residency support to James Angello, who will spend time at the Vermont Studio Center in 2015 to develop new work. Mr. Angello uses collage as a point of departure, explaining, "I collect, alter, fabricate and assemble objects. I...
The Foundation is pleased to provide residency support to Rachel Mulvihill, who will spend time at the Vermont Studio Center in 2015 to develop new work. As an Unangan Aleut-Swedish-Irish American who grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, Rachel Mulvihill's painting is...
Rochelle Kulei Nielsen is a member of the Northwest Band of Shoshone Nation. She lives in Vancouver, Washington and works in Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in Contemporary Studio Practice from Portland State University in 2012. About her work she writes, "I am...
Margaret Jacobs is a member of Mohawk, St. Regis Akwesasne. She has a BA in Studio Art from Dartmouth College. As a recipient of Harpo Foundation's Native American Residency Fellowship award, Ms. Jacobs spent one month in residence at the Vermont Studio Center in...
Gina Herrera collects and uses trash as a never ending source of unconventional material for her sculpture. As a Harpo Fellow at Vermont Studio Center, where she was described as a catalyst among her community of fellow residents, the artist made the work featured...
Elisa Harkins is a Native American composer and artist from Miami, Oklahoma. Her music, animation, paintings and paper mache sculptures investigate Native American stories, rituals, and spirituality through the lens of someone raised on pop culture and computer games....
Ross Chaney is an enrolled member of both the Osage Tribe and Cherokee Nation. He grew up in Oklahoma but now lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Chaney received a scholarship to study Japanese art, culture and language and earned two master’s degrees by age 25...
Tiffiney Yazzie grew up in Chinle, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. She is from the Yucca Fruit-Strung-Out-In-A-Line Clan and is born for the Salt People Clan. She recently received her BFA in Photography and BA in Art History from the Herberger Institute for Design...
Harpo Fellow, Corey Stein, has described her art as “environmental observations and connections.” Most of the concepts for her projects come from things she has seen on the street and in nature. She takes her unique perspective and puts it into multi-layered, free...