Artists In Residence
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 2026 Artists-in-Residence
CLP is proud to announce the third annual Artist-in-Residence Series as part of our Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt Initiative.
Quaishawn Whitlock
CLP-Hazelwood Artist-in-Residence
Quaishawn Whitlock is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and business owner born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA.
“My creative practice is rooted in storytelling, cultural memory, and printmaking as both a visual language and a tool for research and discovery. The process-driven nature of printmaking lends itself to experimentation and accessibility—qualities that I extend into my curatorial and installation-based work. By using these frameworks, I explore the past, interrogate the present, and question the trajectories shaping our future through an investigation called “Buffering” which acts as a metaphor for the philosophical and psychological shaping of Black identity in a world where identities, communities, and people remain under constant attack.”
https://www.qultivate.org/
Vic Spindler Fox
CLP-Knoxville Artist-in-Residence
Vic Spindler Fox is an nth-generation East Tennessee native and seventh-generation textile artist. They work professionally in environmental fieldwork, agriculture, and community data, and personally on getting in the middle of a big mess and cutting their way out. Vic’s artistic work focuses on reclaimed and mended textiles designed for daily use, rooted in embodiment and a sense of place, and based around ideas of mourning and memory, scrap and salvage, queerness and ghosts.
“My personal practice is rooted in embodiment and a sense of place, and based around ideas of functional pieces designed for daily use, as well as ritual and esoteric objects that prompt unsettling questions. I’ve been working with textiles, and textiles as narrative objects, for about the past two decades. I’m interested in quilts and garments as tangible, persistent records of history, and records of wear and work – a garment that needs repair is often one that has been labored in. That garment is then also a record of care, and its own form of labor. The goal for me is to make objects that have a lifespan that demands and receives repair.”
https://mourningtown.com/
Ash Strazzinski
CLP-South Side Artist-in-Residence
Ash Strazzinski is a multimedia visual artist who is deeply invested in playtime; wildly curious about bodies; mystified by femininity and masculinity; and confused about gender. She makes images, objects, installations, and one-of-a-kind artist books that instigate questions about our presentation of self; language and communication; and our relationships with images, objects, and materials.
https://www.ashstrazzinski.com/
Griffin Nordstrom
CLP-West End Artist-in-Residence
Griffin Nordstrom is an Appalachian quiltmaker and storyteller who explores themes of reuse through craft and reinterpreting history through a contemporary lens. Griffin comes from a multi-generational family quiltmaking tradition of over 150 years, but his practice utilizing secondhand textiles was self-taught through years of material experimentation. His quilts are identifiable as vibrant clusters of color and pattern, melding patchwork, traditional, and improv techniques to create movement in dynamic compositions. Though chaotic, they provide direction for the eye to flow, like a labyrinth tracking around switchbacks. His quilts are imbued with lived narratives, whether abstracted or directly represented on the quilt, exploring ideas of queerness, placemaking, and environmental lessons. As a practiced historian and interpreter, he approaches his quiltmaking as a chain in a legacy of making, seeking to express the various lineages he builds from in his work.
https://gnordstrom.weebly.com/
Taylor Raye
CLP-Woods Run Artist-in-Residence
Taylor Raye is a Pittsburgh-based visual artist whose work explores memory, nature, and folklore through dreamy, layered landscapes. Working primarily in acrylic on wood panel with charcoal drawing elements, she blends personal story, observation, and imaginative natural worlds, creating work that honors both emotional and ecological landscapes.
https://taylorrayeart.com/