Mara Baldwin
Visiting Artist in Residence
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Studio Arts
Biography:
Mara Baldwin is an artist, curator, writer, and educator whose work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include feelings of failure, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. Her multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She comes to Bard from Cornell University, where she served as a visiting professor. She is also the director of the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, where she curates multiple exhibitions a year and coordinates programming. She is the recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant, As I Progress, Shaker Heritage Society (Albany); and artist residencies at, among others, Wassaic Project, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Djerassi (California). Recent solo and group exhibitions at venues including Jennifer Terzian Gallery; Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University; String Room Gallery, Wells College; Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Concepto Hudson; and Corners Gallery, Ithaca, New York.BA, Wesleyan University; MFA, California College of the Arts. At Bard since 2022.
Contact:
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