Tuesday, November 17, 6pm via Facebook Live
“Dinner & Discussion” with Franconia Emerging Artists-in-Residence
6:00pm-6:20pm – Wesley Fawcett Creigh
6:20pm-6:40pm – Lee Noble
6:40pm-7:00pm – Emma Beatrez
7:20pm-7:40pm – Tsohil Bhatia
7:40pm-8:00pm – William Lanzillo
For this “Dinner & Discussion”, Franconia will highlight the work of their current Emerging Artists-in-Residence via short 20-minute discussions.
About the Artists:
Wesley Fawcett Creigh is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working on the land currently known as Tucson, Arizona. In 2008 she completed her Bachelor’s Degree at Prescott College in the self-designed major of Public Art with an Emphasis on Social Impact. Her work aims to bring the arts into community spaces and bring overlooked issues into the forefront of a broader community dialogue. She has been awarded grants and residencies from organizations such as the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, The Puffin Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Springboard for the Arts, and Santa Fe Art Institute.
Lee Noble is a musician, performer, and transdisciplinary artist working between sound, video, collage, object, and installation. He received an MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2020.
Emma Beatrez is a transdisciplinary artist from Minnesota. They graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2020 with a MFA in Interdisciplinary studio art. Beatrez received their BFA with an emphasis in oil painting at North Dakota State University in 2018. Their recent work deals with ritual, body, ephemeral archive, proxemics, desire, and simulation through material, light, sound, and scent explorations.
Tsohil Bhatia is a home-maker and transdisciplinary artist. Having lived between India and the United States, they received their MFA at the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University and were awarded the Regina and Martin Miller Fellowship. With a practice that fluctuates between making objects, performance documents, video, photographs and drawings often confused together, they’re interested in mundane activity, language and autobiography studied via the framework of memory and archival documents.
William Lanzillo is a Minneapolis based sculptor and printmaker. He received his BA in Studio art and psychology from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 2019. His work focuses on how sculpture and printmaking can be combined and respond to one another.