LIGHT UP 2024

Clay Mohrman is a practicing lighting artist out of Burlington, VT. In 2017, he founded Clay Mohr Lighting, as a way to develop unique lighting sculptures using LED lighting and wood for indoor and outdoor spaces. His work lies at the intersection between nature, lighting and emotion. He uses lighting as a primary medium because of its ability to emphasize, connect and evoke emotions. He believes that integrating pieces of the natural world in artwork helps us start a dialogue with ourselves regarding our environment, our community and our connection with the world.
Website: https://www.claymohrlighting.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/claymohrlighting/

Alma Moga is an illustrator attending the second year of Center for Creative Studies in Detroit , USA

From a young age she has worked and volunteered  in art studio environments  , constructing and painting large scale puppets, leading luminary workshops and polymer clay sculpture workshops. She is hoping to pursue a career as a professional artist  in illustration and game design .

Both Lavinia and Alma are looking forward to spending time as guests in Skagastrond and make space for luminary workshops for everyone interested attending.

Shoshana Fink is a Minneapolis-based artist whose practice focuses on photography, sound, olfaction, and installation. Her work is situated at the intersection of visual culture, technology, and ecology. In this context, her practice critically reflects on the relationship between living organisms and their environment. With the intensification of anthropogenic influences, the question of what and how we are “worlding” together has become an urgent quandary. Thus, it is the goal of her practice to explore stories of symbiosis, or “making-with,” both in human and other-than-human contexts. As art-making provides a transformative network for writing novel narratives, her work utilizes multiple mediums to mirror not only what is, but also to imagine what can be.

Between 1999  and 2017, Shoshana worked as a Los Angeles-based film producer and director, returning to Minnesota in 2018. In 2022, she graduated with an M.F.A. in visual studies from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has served as an Artist in Residence at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain at the University of Minnesota, and as an Art Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin River Falls. She is currently adjunct faculty in Media Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.Website: https://www.shoshanafink.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shoshanafink/

Margaret Craig received a degree in Biology Secondary Education, a BS in Art and an MA in Painting from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Texas at San Antonio. An innovator in printmaking techniques, she invented Tar Gel Pressless Etching. She is included in many public and private collections including the Library of Congress. She is Professor Emeritus of Printmaking and Paper at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, TX. Her original Biology degree has been a major influence in the visual and ecological context of her work.  She has one husband, one bird, five cats, one spastic puppy, and a mess of grown stepchildren. Her original college degree in biology has been a major influence in both the visual and ecological context of her work. The work is rooted in the symbiotic ecostructure we all precariously live in, and involves an elaborate, possibly excessive, process that (re)cycles the original post-consumer paper and plastic through several art forms and media, including acrylic, watercolor, printmaking, papermaking and installation sculpture.
https://margaretcraig.com/
@margaretacraig