Creative Residency 2022 Jurors:
Design & Exploration
Meet the jurors who are helping us select the Design & Exploration participants for the 2022 Creative Residency program.
Madelaine Corbin is a multidisciplinary artist living in Detroit, Michigan. Her research-based practice moves fluidly between drawing, writing, sculpture, textiles, and natural dyeing. Madelaine received an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Visual Art from Oregon State University. Her naturally dyed works, drawings, and sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is also the author of “The Stuff of EverydayMagic,” available through the BLUE, The TATTER Textile Library in Brooklyn, New York and ecoartspace in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Corbin’s work has been supported in the form of residencies at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the Bloedel Reserve Creative Residency in Research, and at Prairie Ronde Artist Residency. Recent awards include the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Stuart Thompson Fellowship in 2019, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Emerging Artist Award in 2020, Honorable Mention for the 2020 Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Award, Alternate Finalist for a Fulbright Award in both 2020 and 2021, and finalist status for the Redmond Design Prize in 2020.
Mara Menahan is a botanical illustrator, an artist and student of the natural world. Through signage, drawing workshops and paintings, she works to connect people to each other, the places we inhabit and our more-than-human neighbors. She began her career at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. as the in-house botanical illustrator. Since then, she has worked to bear witness to threatened landscapes across North America, from the Bering Sea to the tip of the Baja California peninsula. Her paintings are a record of time: how slowly she moved across a landscape, the time she spent looking, and the time we live in, the anthropocene. For the past three years, Mara has grounded her artistic practice in fieldwork, working seasonally as a science technician at a National Science Foundation research station on top of the Greenland ice sheet.
Alexa Sykyra
Dr. Alexa Sekyra is the Head of the Scholars Program at the Getty Research Institute. Originally trained as an Art and Architectural Historian, Alexa received her Ph.D. from the University of Salzburg, Austria, specializing in the 18th century. She also received a postgraduate Masters in Arts and Media Management at the International Center for Culture and Management in Salzburg, and studied Architecture at the Southern Californian Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Getty, Alexa worked as an independent consultant (art, design and film), and curator in Los Angeles, Seoul, Salzburg and Vancouver.
