Anna Hutchings
Bio
Born, raised and still living in the East Village of New York City.
I am an interdisciplinary artist, working in multiple areas of the visual arts, with ideas from
one medium crossing over and informing my work in other media. Photography has always
been the core of all my work, using my imagery as both reference and subject. It is through
photography that I am able to be a visual storyteller, both documenting and abstracting my
experiences and my life in both printed matter and sculptural forms.
Statement
I build and create worlds based around my experiences traveling in unconventional
ways, and my unique perspective and relationship to the landscapes around me. My work is
inspired by defining "landscape" through its ruins, domestic and industrial structures
abandoned. I recreate memories of these places through fabricated still-lifes combining
sculpture, photography and printmaking. Works on paper reimagine my experiences,
through composed images of hand-built models situated in stark isolation on the paper.
These singular compositions are suspended within this empty setting, grounded by the
slight shadows of my subject. While traditional landscapes sprawl across the image plane,
my work isolates the subject, creating infinite possibilities for its context, with compositions
that suggest an imagined horizon. I find beauty, not blight, in decaying infrastructure. My
prints document and make them visible.
Born, raised and still living in the East Village of New York City.
I am an interdisciplinary artist, working in multiple areas of the visual arts, with ideas from
one medium crossing over and informing my work in other media. Photography has always
been the core of all my work, using my imagery as both reference and subject. It is through
photography that I am able to be a visual storyteller, both documenting and abstracting my
experiences and my life in both printed matter and sculptural forms.
Statement
I build and create worlds based around my experiences traveling in unconventional
ways, and my unique perspective and relationship to the landscapes around me. My work is
inspired by defining "landscape" through its ruins, domestic and industrial structures
abandoned. I recreate memories of these places through fabricated still-lifes combining
sculpture, photography and printmaking. Works on paper reimagine my experiences,
through composed images of hand-built models situated in stark isolation on the paper.
These singular compositions are suspended within this empty setting, grounded by the
slight shadows of my subject. While traditional landscapes sprawl across the image plane,
my work isolates the subject, creating infinite possibilities for its context, with compositions
that suggest an imagined horizon. I find beauty, not blight, in decaying infrastructure. My
prints document and make them visible.
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Izzy Van den Heuvel
Bio
Izzy Van den Heuvel is an artist and first year MFA candidate at UW-Madison, with a focus in printmaking techniques and book arts. Her projects usually start with a “how” question, often centering on comfort, security, safety; what it is and how to find it. Her most recent exhibition, Ghost Stories for the Faint of Heart, was shown at the Maine College of Art and Design as part of her dual position as Printmaking Technician and Artist-in-Residence. Currently, she serves as the project assistant for Professor Faisal Abdu’Allah and carries out additional research with Professor Emily Arthur in historical etching techniques. She has a BA in studio art from Bard College where she received the Elizabeth Murray and Sol Lewitt Studio Arts Award and the Stanley Landsman Scholar Award. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of Oehme Graphics and the United States Department of State.
Statement
My projects usually start with a “how” question, often centering on comfort, security, safety; what it is and how to find it. I approach these questions with the same methodical mindset that I approach the process of printmaking, often working in series, allowing for development of a larger story by the accumulation of small pieces.
Izzy Van den Heuvel is an artist and first year MFA candidate at UW-Madison, with a focus in printmaking techniques and book arts. Her projects usually start with a “how” question, often centering on comfort, security, safety; what it is and how to find it. Her most recent exhibition, Ghost Stories for the Faint of Heart, was shown at the Maine College of Art and Design as part of her dual position as Printmaking Technician and Artist-in-Residence. Currently, she serves as the project assistant for Professor Faisal Abdu’Allah and carries out additional research with Professor Emily Arthur in historical etching techniques. She has a BA in studio art from Bard College where she received the Elizabeth Murray and Sol Lewitt Studio Arts Award and the Stanley Landsman Scholar Award. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of Oehme Graphics and the United States Department of State.
Statement
My projects usually start with a “how” question, often centering on comfort, security, safety; what it is and how to find it. I approach these questions with the same methodical mindset that I approach the process of printmaking, often working in series, allowing for development of a larger story by the accumulation of small pieces.
Kate Flake
Bio
Kate Flake (b.1991 United States) is an interdisciplinary artist and recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison where they were awarded a graduate fellowship. They hold a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Georgia and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Art from Brandeis University. Kate has interned at Atlanta Printmakers Studio and Second State Press and has completed residencies at OZ House in Ozu, Japan, and Penland School of Craft. They were selected for a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, Summer 2026, and in the spring of 2027, they will be a resident at the McColl Center in Charlotte, NC. Their work has been exhibited at the Portrait Society Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Image Flow Photography Center in San Anselmo, California, and the Art + Literature Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin.
Statement
In my interdisciplinary practice, I use photography and printmaking to create sculptures that examine my identity a queer, non-binary person and the relationships among my family, memory and body. I navigate the delicate line between honoring the people and cultures I inherited while pushing against its restrictive and normative boundaries. To create my work, I fragment and reconstruct self-portraits and family photographs into textiles, sculptures and installations. I use flexible materials, such as fabric, which are capable of changing without destroying their integrity. This material connects me to my family history of textile craft while also pushing against its conventions. By reorienting and reconstructing the fragmented pieces of my portraits, I am able to reclaim my image and expose as much or as little of myself as I desire. The forms I create become new bodies that better align with my internal sense of self, relieving tension and dysphoria. I often leave threads loose, edges raw and batting exposed to suggest that the body and identity are mutable and in a state of constant flux. Using these materials and processes, I uncover who I am not in static representation, but through transformation, fracture, and reassembly.
Kate Flake (b.1991 United States) is an interdisciplinary artist and recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison where they were awarded a graduate fellowship. They hold a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Georgia and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Art from Brandeis University. Kate has interned at Atlanta Printmakers Studio and Second State Press and has completed residencies at OZ House in Ozu, Japan, and Penland School of Craft. They were selected for a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, Summer 2026, and in the spring of 2027, they will be a resident at the McColl Center in Charlotte, NC. Their work has been exhibited at the Portrait Society Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Image Flow Photography Center in San Anselmo, California, and the Art + Literature Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin.
Statement
In my interdisciplinary practice, I use photography and printmaking to create sculptures that examine my identity a queer, non-binary person and the relationships among my family, memory and body. I navigate the delicate line between honoring the people and cultures I inherited while pushing against its restrictive and normative boundaries. To create my work, I fragment and reconstruct self-portraits and family photographs into textiles, sculptures and installations. I use flexible materials, such as fabric, which are capable of changing without destroying their integrity. This material connects me to my family history of textile craft while also pushing against its conventions. By reorienting and reconstructing the fragmented pieces of my portraits, I am able to reclaim my image and expose as much or as little of myself as I desire. The forms I create become new bodies that better align with my internal sense of self, relieving tension and dysphoria. I often leave threads loose, edges raw and batting exposed to suggest that the body and identity are mutable and in a state of constant flux. Using these materials and processes, I uncover who I am not in static representation, but through transformation, fracture, and reassembly.