bio

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Grace McIntyre-Willis is an interdisciplinary artist and recent graduate of Tulane University's MFA program. They are currently an Adjunct Lecturer for Tulane's School of Architecture and the Build Enviroment teaching Design, and the Newcomb Art department teaching digital arts. During the summer, Grace teaches 7 - 13 yr olds material experimentation art courses at Country Day Creative Arts in Metarie, Louisiana. During and after their MFA, they helped create and manage a collaborative Digital Ceramics lab created by the School of Architecture and the Newcomb Art department. Seasonally, Grace serves as the Design/Graphics coordinator for the New Orleans Film Festival. Grace is originally from a small rural town outside of Pensacola, Florida where they grew up enjoying both farm and beach life. Their practice utilizes technology, biological systems, and 2D design to explore morphology, existentialism, and non-human intelligence in the form of sculptural, photographical, and illustrative works. Calling upon the visual references of organic form, they hope the works they create will encourage the viewer to point inquiries back at our existence and three-dimensional space.

Grace has shown at several venues throughout their early artistic career, such as the Pensacola Museum of Art, Art Bug in Los Angeles, and Good Children in New Orleans. Although, their artistic goals remain more geared towards research, and working in the field. Most recently, Grace was funded to visit a remote ecological research station in the Chocò rainforests of northwestern Ecuador, where they worked closely with biologists to create 3D photogrammetry models of botanical specimens to be placed in an open-access digital library. As an artist working with a variety of media, Grace seeks opportunities to work alongside other disciplines to enrich both artistic and scientific research.

They are always looking for opportunties to join ecologist in the field, so reach out!