bio

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Grace McIntyre-Willis is an interdisciplinary creator, collaborator, and educator. Their practice employs digital technologies to theorize and push the boundaries between what is deemed ‘natural’ and ‘robotic’, as a conduit for information, to automate ecological systems, and to visualize the surreal. As a creator working with a variety of media, Grace seeks opportunities to work alongside other disciplines to enrich both artistic and scientific research.

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. Grace is originally from a small rural town outside of Pensacola, Florida where they grew up enjoying both farm and beach life.

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. In recent years, Grace has been funded by the National Science Foundation to visit FCAT, (Fundación para la Conservación de los Andes Tropicales), a remote ecological research station in the Chocò rainforests of northwestern Ecuador, where they are working closely with ecologists to create 3D photogrammetry models of botanical specimens to be placed in an open-access digital library.

They are always looking for opportunities to join ecologists in the field; if your project seems like a good fit, reach out!