MFA student Vanessa Lustig selected for The Knight Foundation Art + Research Center summer intensive

Image: Grounded: Shoe on head. Hand embroidery on vellum paper, 2021.

Transart MFA candidate, Vanessa Lustig has been selected to participate in The Knight Foundation Art + Research Center’s summer intensive at Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA).

The Knight Foundation Art + Research Center (A+RC) is the museum’s research department and graduate-level initiative dedicated to fostering a more robust and critical dialogue in the South Florida region and beyond. The three-week-long 2022 Summer Intensive features seminars, performances, and artist lectures.

Vanessa Lustig is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, textile art, and interactive textiles. Her work explores changing psychological, cultural, and natural contexts and situations, investigating themes of human identity & culture not as separate from nature, but as interacting elements of nature. She focuses on highlighting the smaller, subtle movements of natural, cultural, and human worlds, creating works that capture these delicate yet enduring fragilities by using both delicate & sturdy materials, technologically advanced techniques & craft techniques that result in minimal, delicate, quiet, yet immersive works.

Vanessa begins the Transart one-year MFA in September 2022