2022 CHRYSALIS AWARDEE

Morgan Hill ANNOUNCED AS 2022
JRACraft CHrysalis AWARDEE

Sculptor and jewelry designer Morgan Hill has been selected for the 2022 Chrysalis Award, an award given annually to an emerging artist by the James Renwick Alliance for Craft (JRACraft).
 
Morgan Hill is a sculptor and jewelry designer whose work draws on a wide range of aesthetic and conceptual influences from 90's pop culture, cult films, and costume design, to her traditional Southern upbringing. Her longing to break the silence surrounding culturally censured topics drives her to create work on themes of death, abuse, depression, and suicide, as well as their counterparts of rebirth, healing, and empowerment. On the lighter side, her jewelry brand Bad Habits by Morgan Hill celebrates the pleasure of excess and indulged desires. 

Hill was a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft from 2015-2017. In 2018, she was an ITE Windgate Fellow at the Center for Art in Wood. Her work is carried in galleries across the US and internationally. She creates her work at Treats Studios in Spruce Pine, NC, a studio cooperative she co-founded.
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www.morganhillcreative.com

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honorable mentions

ASPEN GOLANN
​honorable mention

​The jurors additionally selected honorable mention Aspen Golann. Golann is an artist and furniture maker who blends early American furniture forms with sculpture and social practice. She is the founder of The Chairmakers Toolbox and serves on the board of A Workshop of Our Own and as an ambassador to the board of Fine Woodworking Magazine. She has received support for her work from The Windgate Foundation, Winterthur Museum, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship and others and is the recipient of the 2020 Mineck Furniture Fellowship from The Society of Arts & Crafts.

www.aspengolann.com

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EMMA SENFT
​​HONORABLE MENTION

The jurors additionally selected honorable mention Emma Senft. Senft is an artist and woodworker who creates furniture and sculpture using wood, textile, and decontextualized construction materials. ​Emma has been a studio fellow at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and has exhibited at galleries across the U.S. and Canada. She is currently completing her MFA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

www.emmasenft.com