A BFA Thesis show by Elle Bisheimer (Arabella), Nell DeLigio-Spiess, Tessa Liebman, and Harper Pearce-Mitchell

Elle Bisheimer (Arabella) is an interdisciplinary autistic and queer artist primarily focused in fiber. Their work incorporates post-consumer waste fabrics, found objects, and secondhand craft materials to create sensorially-engaging fiber and sculpture works. Arabella’s practice and works incorporate craft and fashion techniques such as weaving, dyeing, sewing, and embroidery alongside industrial processes such as welding and moldmaking. They use these techniques and objects to reflect on material history and futurality, as well as the various ways that objects, textures, and colors are codified into our personal value systems. 

Nell DeLigio-Spiess made these works to honor survival and strength, to remember love, care, and belonging, and to express her gratitude for the natural world. 

Tessa Liebman attempts to make explicit the things that are by no means unfamiliar, just unfamiliar in our attention to them. She paints from images that depict domestic spaces and the human posturing of body language. Both subjects that glide around our attentions seamlessly. Understandings emerge without us having to try. The way we hold ourselves, the way the night sky looks from a kitchen window, the way light shines through leaves. These small permanences surround all of us, and connect us in the way that we all, without trying, are often blind to the same things.

"Harper Pearce-Mitchell explores the chest as a site of adornment and space to feature queer and transgender bodies, specifically using the chest as a site to represent the ideals of a trans masculine person's chest and the feelings of what it is to be transmasculine in a body that no longer feels like yours. While also combining these ideas with his take on coral forms to showcase transgender and queer bodies as natural and normal. Utilizing the fluidity of soft corals to converse with the fluidity of queer identities."