Birgit investigates the rules she (we) live by, dissecting, mending, normalizing and reallocating behavior. Her performative work designs or enhances guidelines in her own life, creating a long form performance that becomes a part of her daily life and identity.
Read MoreJulia Olson is a visual artist.
Read MoreDesmond Beach is an interdisciplinary artist, the middle son of three boys born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a project artist, meaning that his work takes its point of departure from specific problems or tragedies.
Read MoreBeth Krensky is Area Head and Professor of Art Teaching at the University of Utah. She is an artist working in the border zone between social issues and the sacred who creates objects and performative gestures as a contemplative act.
Read MoreSyowia Kyambi
MFA Programme Leader
Syowia Kyambi is a mixed media artist, who enjoys performing characters within her performance installations to tell stories, an alternative layered narrative about history in an attempt to disrupt mono-cultural violence. The connection between the psyche, history and the entanglement that exists within non-stagnant identities is ever present in her creative process. Her practice probes issues of race, perception, hierarchical systems, gender studies and body memory. Based in Nairobi and of Kenyan and German origin, Syowia Kyambi has received commissions by the Kenya Institute of Administration, the National Museum of Kenya and the Art 4 Action Foundation in Kenya.
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