Jennifer Sirey (1990 Fine Arts) is a Brooklyn-based artist known for her unusual sculptures. Creating human-size “living architectures,” her process-driven sculptures engage organic materials and natural phenomena, incorporating glass, liquids, wax, bacteria, algae, wood and found objects in monolithic forms.

A visual artist, educator, and documentarian based in Hampshire County, West Virginia, Lisa Elmaleh (BFA 2007 Photography) specializes in large-format work in tintype, glass negative, and celluloid film. Since 2007, she has been traveling across the U.S., documenting American landscapes, life, and culture.

Lastly, Lorraine O'Grady, a conceptual multi-disciplinary artist who is reviving an old persona for a new performative work project and taught at SVA in the 1970s, was also granted a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.

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