Quinci Baker A'17

Class Notes

Quincy Baker A'17 participated in an arts residency during at the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, NY, at the center's Artist Residency program between June 2022 and October 2022.

"Storm King Art Center and Shandaken Projects are pleased to announce the 2022 season of Shandaken: Storm King, comprised of fifteen participating artists: Patricia Ayres, Quinci Baker, Caleb Jamel Brown, Nickolas Calabrese, Lucas de Lima, Manal Kara, Tina Lam, Juan Luna-Avin, Susan Metrican, Narcissister, Mimi Park, Peat Szilagyi, Ruby T, Christopher Udemezue, and Phyllis Yao. Representing a wide range of interdisciplinary practices, the artists will live and work onsite at Storm King starting in mid-June through early October for residencies ranging from two to six weeks."

"Quinci Baker is a mixed-media artist born in Washington, DC and raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Her works combine various crafts and repurposed materials in an exploration of collective memory and identity. Baker’s practice is heavily influenced by the secret languages that develop through the shared experiences of marginalized people and the mnemonics that elucidate a cultural identity. Baker earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in May 2022 and her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2017, where she received the Michael S. Vivio Memorial Prize for Excellence in Drawing and the Carin Tendler Lurkis Award for Excellence in Painting. In 2021, Baker was selected to participate in the SOMA Summer Residency in San Rafael, Mexico. She is currently based in New Haven, Connecticut." quincibaker.com

To read more about the artist residency at Storm King Art Center, please click here and here.

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