About The Makers ⋆༘⋆✿
Vic Barquin
Vic Barquin is an artist, printmaker, and arts administrator from Cranbury, NJ. In 2016, she received a BFA in Printmaking with honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. After graduation she moved to Chicago, Illinois where she established Halftone Projects—a collaborative publishing program which she ran out of her second bedroom turned screenprinting studio. Her work has been exhibited at ARC Gallery (Chicago, IL) Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (Little Rock, AR), Blah Blah Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Kaleidoscope Collective (Rogers, AR), University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS), and Indiana University Northwest (Gary, IN), among others. ] Recently, she completed her MFA in Studio Art at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and had writing published in The Lemon Car Lot and Sixty Inches from Center. Barquin is currently based in Chicago, IL.
Olivia Clanton
Olivia Mae Clanton (b. 1995, she/her) is a textile artist, quilt maker, and craft educator based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Clanton earned her BFA in Fiber with an emphasis in socially engaged art practices from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2017. Olivia is a recipient of a Rocket Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation and co-founded Open House, a community space for exhibitions and education in Kansas City, Missouri. From 2017-2019, Olivia organized free classes based in STEAM out of Garage School, a detached garage turned classroom. She received an Art in the Loop artist residency in 2018, and an Arts and Entrepreneurship residency at UArk in 2022. Olivia is now a practicing artist and educator, teaching craft processes and knowledge in non-traditional spaces.
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