by Vicki | Jan 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mia Hochrein is a conceptual, multimedia artist who captures the essence of her surroundings and uses different tangible and intangible elements to show the intertemporal stories hidden in them. As an artist, she begins her works by collecting things. These...
by Vicki | Jan 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ashley Lamb is an artist and educator currently based in Chicago. She uses found objects and discarded materials to create work that highlights the charm of the everyday. While at NES and in Iceland, she’s interested in looking closely, being present, and making...
by Vicki | Jan 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
“My name is Alyse, and I am an artist from California. I am also a rock climber and spend most of my time outdoors, where I am inspired by nature, wildlife, and the need to protect and conserve our natural environment. I draw with pen and paint with watercolor,...
by Vicki | Jan 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Christina Sporrong is a metal sculptor and creator of interactive things. She lives between Taos, NM and Lund, Sweden. She dreams up large projects and fabricates them in steel using fire, scale, movement and sound to engage the audience. This is her first NES...
by Vicki | Jan 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
While in Ljubljana on a year-long Fulbright Fellowship in poetry, I fell in love with puppet theatre. I am currently writing a performance piece for the puppets I’ve made with Icelandic sheep’s wool. My background is in the theatre and incorporating puppets into...
by Vicki | Jan 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ben Langston has been a mail carrier, a prison guarder, a truck loader, a forklift driver, a paratrooper, an event parker, a caterer, a capacitor shaker, a bottle labeler, and a short-order cooker. He writes about blue collar dreams and blue collar prisons, and how...
