Breanna Robinson (b. 1995, Chicago) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Working with a variety of processes including printmaking, collage, drawing, and coding, her projects tend to take shape through a mix of hand + digital renderings and image manipulation. Prevalent themes in her work include nostalgia (and time, broadly), femininity, media, and technology in the context of Black American culture, history, and traditions. She is currently an artist in residence at Chicago Artist Coalition and is a recipient of the 2022 Coney Family Fund Award.
Current Artists-In-Residence 2022-2023
Breanna Robinson (she/her)
PRINTMAKING & BOOK ARTS
Katie Fee (she/her)
CERAMICS
Katie Fee makes pots and vessel-based sculpture. She earned her MFA at The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, a graduate certificate in ceramics at U.Mass Dartmouth, and a B.A. from The College of William & Mary. She has been a long term artist-in-residence at The Morean Center For Clay, Mudflat Art Studios, and a visiting lecturer at various schools, including Harvard’s office of the arts, South Central Florida College, The College of William and Mary. Fee grew up on her grandparent’s farm, and is inspired by memories of working, cooking, and exploring in wetland South Carolina. She also draws inspiration from her undergraduate Geology studies. Her artwork addresses the intersection between geologic force and living form. In the past few years, her work has been featured in national and international juried shows, invitationals, NCECA, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, and her grandma’s kitchen cabinet.
Taylor Whyte (she/her)
CERAMICS
Taylor Whyte was born in Upstate New York near the Adirondack Mountains. She first attended the State University of New York-Plattsburgh where she received her BFA in Studio Art with concentrations in Ceramics and Printmaking as well as her BA/BS in Psychology in 2017. Taylor then went on to a year-long residency at the Saratoga Clay Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY before relocating to the Midwest for graduate school. She received her MFA in Ceramics in the Spring of 2021 from Ball State University. She blends her background in psychology into her current body of work, calling for more empathy in our world today.
Find more work of her work at: taylorwhyteceramics.com
Jonathan Kusnerek (he/they)
CERAMICS
Jonathan Kusnerek is a queer artist working primarily in ceramics and painting. Jonathan’s work draws inspiration from wild, strange, and magical things, conjuring vessel-like forms with hand-painted nature imagery steeped with symbolism and meaning. Jonathan is originally from Pensacola, Florida. They earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. Jonathan is based in Chicago, IL, where outside of the studio, they are a devoted plant dad, and they enjoy baking and long walks on the beach.
Caitlyn Doran (she/her)
DRAWING AND PAINTING
Caitlyn Doran is a figurative painter and educator born in the Quad Cities and based in Chicago. She received her BFA in Drawing from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2016. Doran also lived in Japan and attended the Kanazawa College of Art oil painting program in 2018/19. She is the recipient of the Albert P. Weisman award in 2021 and 2022 as well as a Luminarts Fellowship. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the Midwest and abroad. Most recently, she completed her MFA at Columbia College Chicago in 2022. Doran’s work explores themes of the banal where it meets the fantastic, on a hyper-personal level, specifically encounters, both real and imagined, between humans, their animals, their objects, and each other.
Julie Sulzen (she/her)
DRAWING & PAINTING
Julie Sulzen is an artist whose work focuses primarily on painting the landscapes of the American Midwest. She also explores drawing, printmaking, watercolor, and photography in both figurative and landscape themes. Born and raised in Chicago, Julie Sulzen began her formal art education at Lane Technical High School, followed by degrees in Fine Art and Illustration from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. She continued with studies under portrait and still-life painter Grace Cole. While working as an artist and raising her two children, Sulzen earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Concordia University Chicago in 2017, focusing specifically on Printmaking and Photography. Sulzen’s work has been displayed in numerous exhibitions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival. Her solo shows include “A Visual Dialogue” at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, “Beyond Green Fences” at Concordia University Chicago, and “Seasoned” at Buona Terra Ristorante. Sulzen was named a Curator’s Choice for the Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival in 2000 and was a recipient of a 2006 Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) grant issued by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. She lives with husband, photographer and writer Dan Zamudio, and their two children. www.JulieSulzen.com | @julie_sulzen
Jakob Rosenberger (he/him)
METALSMITHING & JEWELRY
Growing up gay in a nomadic Roman Catholic military family, Jakob Rosenberger took an interest in art as an exploration of self. Inspired by a love of storied objects, he uses metal and vitreous enamel to memorialize and explore the complicated intertwining of identity, communication, and place. Concentrating in Metals and Visual Communications, Jakob received his BFA in 2022 from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Millicent Kennedy (they/them)
TEXTILES
Millicent Kennedy’s art practice collaborates with materials and time through performance, fiber, and print. The themes explored in their work often pivot on the tension between labor, and impermanence. Kennedy serves as the Curator of Exhibitions at the Fine Arts Center Gallery in Northeastern Illinois University and has previously served as the Gallery Director at Rockford University. They currently teaches classes and workshops in and around Chicago, where their studio is located. They received their Bachelor’s Degree from Northeastern Illinois University and MFA from Northern Illinois University where they were awarded the Helen Merritt Fellowship. They have received solo exhibitions from Belong Gallery, SXU Art Gallery, Roman Susan and Parlour and Ramp, as well as site specific installations with Terrain Exhibitions Biennial, and Purple Window Gallery. They have received artist residencies with Terrain Exhibitions, Pike School of Art and others.
