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Lillstreet

Current Artists-In-Residence 2023-2024

Headshot of Katie Kiesewetter. She is standing in front of of a wooden door with pink hair and an army green jacket with stars on it.

Katie Kiesewetter (she/her)

PRINTMAKING & BOOK ARTS

Katie Kiesewetter is an artist, designer, writer, and zinester. Her studio practice explores myriad topics from care work and emotional labor in the service and hospitality industry to intersectional feminism, DIY, and Riot Grrrl. Commercially, she specializes in branding, print, and package design.

Katie received her MFA from the University of Iowa School of Art & Art History with a primary emphasis in Graphic Design and a secondary focus in Photography. She also holds graduate certificates from the University of Iowa Center for the Book and Department of Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies.

www.katiekiesewetter.com

@radkatdesign

Sydnie Jimenez carving into a large-scale figure. The figure wears a pink jacket and a black hat. Jimenez is swearing a black t-shirt and a red beret.

Sydnie Jimenez (she/her)

CERAMICS

Sydnie Jimenez was born in Orlando, FL but spent most of her childhood in north Georgia from which she draws much inspiration. She received a BFA from SAIC (2020) focusing in ceramic sculpture and is a recipient of the Windgate- Lamar Fellowship (2020). Much of her work centers around the representation of black/ brown youth and self-expression as a form of protest and self care to protect against a Eurocentric society founded on white supremacy and colonization. Jimenez is currently a long-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts.

@syddd.viciouss

Headshot of Kristin Field. She is wearing a black button-up dress, has long brown hair with bangs, and is standing in front of a wicker shelving unit with a plant on it.

Kristin Field (she/her)

TEXTILES

Kristin Field is a textile artist, natural dyer, and gardener. She grows dye plants like indigo, coreopsis, and marigolds in her small Chicago backyard alongside food and cut flowers. Some of her favorite natural dyeing techniques to work with currently are stitched shibori and ecoprinting, and she especially enjoys creating pieces with a combination of the two. In addition to her textile work, she also extracts & works with natural pigments to create watercolor paints and inks.

Kristin enjoys sharing her love of natural dyeing, textile art, and gardening through teaching workshops, and she hopes that her art reminds people of the deep connection we have with the natural world around us. Kristin is currently the 2023 Summer Maker-In-Residence with the Chicago Public Library.

www.fieldandgardner.com

@fieldandgardner

Headshot of Francesca Carletto-Leon. They are wearing a light purple sweater and have red hair.

Francesca Carletto-Leon (she/they)

DRAWING & PAINTING

Cesca (she/they) is an award winning video game developer and educator specializing in emotion-first design and collaborative multiplayer experiences. Her work combines programming, electronics, and traditional art formats to create playful experiences. They hold an MFA in Game Design from New York University and are presently teaching at Columbia College Chicago, University of Nebraska Lincoln, and Lillstreet Art Center.

cesca.games

@cesca_is_making

Headshot of Sushi Wang. She is standing outside in a park with green grass and terms. She has long brown hair and is wearing a black shirt.

Sishi Wang (she/her)

METALSMITHING & JEWELRY

Born and raised in China, Wang holds a MFA degree in Metalsmithing and jewelry design at Indiana University of Bloomington, IN, and a BFA from East Carolina University, NC.

Her work reflects elements from everyday life through traditional metalsmithing and enameling techniques. Drawing from both architectural details and botanical forms, she tells stories through making. Wang exhibits nationally and internationally, and her work has been published in Art Extravagance Catalog and Alchemy 5: Transformation in Contemporary Enamels.

www.sishiwang.com

@sishi_jewelry

Michelle Chun sits on the top step of a three step ladder in front of a collection of in-progress paintings. She is wearing a striped shirt, jeans, and yellow socks.

Michelle Chun (she/her)

DRAWING & PAINTING

Michelle Chun is a visual maker born and raised in Southern California. She received a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MAR in Visual and Material Culture from Yale Divinity School. Through excavation of familial archive and historical references, her practice is an assemblage of precarious nostalgia, glass prayers, and treasured fragments from the immigrant’s longings for eschatological belonging. She is a HATCH resident at the Chicago Arts Coalition and has shown at Helen J Gallery in Los Angeles, Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, and Gelman Gallery in Rhode Island among other exhibitions.

www.michellejchun.com

@michellejchun

Headshot of Seuil Chung. He is wearing blue camouflage puffer vest, a blue baseball cap, and is standing in front of a textured white wall.

Seuil Chung (he/him)

CERAMICS

Seuil Chung is an artist working with hand-built ceramic sculptures. His practice focuses on creating abstract sculptures that blur the line between bodily representation and ceramic material as a visual exploration of the subconscious mind. Chung recently taught in the Ceramics Department at the University of Akron. He received his BFA in Studio at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019 and his MFA in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2021. His work was shown at the Akron Art Museum for the FRONT International Triennial held in Northeast Ohio in 2022. He had his solo show, “Mouse Hunt,” at KINK Contemporary Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2022. The artist will present his next solo exhibition, “I Love You,” at Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in December 2023.

www.seuilchung.com

@seuil_chung

Headshot of Breana Marie Ferreira. The artist is wearing a gray sweater with large stars and is standing in front of a shelf of ceramic materials with her hands in her pockets.

Breana Marie Ferreira (she/her)

CERAMICS

Breana Ferreira (she/her) was born and raised in Southern California and received her BFA in Ceramics in the Spring of 2022 from the University of North Texas. Her practice integrates clay with a variety of 2-dimensional art practices to capture the natural and industrial aspects of everyday life. Her pots exist as vessels for personal narrative that contribute to the tradition of the pot as a container for culture, for communication, and for the kitchen. Breana is currently an emerging studio artist working with clay in association with the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA as a long-term artist in residence until September of 2023.

breanaferreira.com

@brebreanam