During the pandemic, Alex Hirsch was awarded a public art commission by Washington Arts Commission and Puyallup School District. She worked remotely with the committee, visited the campus using Covid precautions, and successfully completed the commission with the...
Started during his residency, PLAYA alum Charles Hood received a prize for his essay collection, titled A Salad Only A Devil Would Eat: the Joys of Ugly Nature. It won the Editor’s Choice Prize from Foreword, for being the best nonfiction book of 2021. In 2022, he...
Frances Ashforth was selected to draw over 30 images for the book, ‘Headwaters’ by author & friend Dylan Tomine. The book was published by Patagonia Books in April, 2022. Ashforth toured with Tomine to NYC and Idaho where they shared conversations and thoughts...
Congratulations to PLAYA alum, Jennifer Gunlock on receiving a 2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Based in Los Angeles, Jennifer Gunlock received an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2003. She has exhibited nationally and in local venues such as...
Debora Coombs, from Readsboro, Vermont had a Paper published, for the very first time, at an international math conference in 2020 that resulted in a show at The 2021 Mathematical Art Exhibition “for aesthetically pleasing works that combine mathematics and art....
Congratulations to PLAYA alum, Leslie Kirk Campbell on her debut novel. Leslie Kirk Campbell, of San Fransisco, California has had her debut novel, The Man With Eight Pairs Of Legs, a collection of fiction short stories, published by Sarabande Books in 2022. Campbell...
