A Cosmology of Inclusions with Jaz Graf

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2024 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT

Mixed-media artist, Jaz Graf, explores how materials collide and synthesize to convey embodied and metaphorical stories. Her love of inclusions in the papermaking process has been essential in the development of her ongoing personal mythology. Graf plays with materials and their inherent and potential meanings. She considers Thai mulberry as plantcestor, offering remedy, rumination, and reverence. Graf will talk about a new body of work created at Dieu Donné’s paper studios during her West Bay View Foundation Fellowship in 2022-23. She delves into her iterative projects inspired by textiles, ancient manuscripts, and design motifs of her cultural heritage.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jaz Graf’s transdisciplinary practice ruminates on our connection to place, the location of identity, and the paradox of presence. Her work delves through the meaning of familial roots, reimagining humanity’s relationship to earth. Graf is a recipient of a West Bay View Foundation Fellowship, Newark Creative Catalyst Grant, Salzberg Book Arts Residency and Civil Society Institute Fellowship. Her work has been featured at The Newark Museum of Art, NJ as well as published in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, AM New York News, and on NJ-PBS television news. Graf holds a Master of Arts degree in Studio Art Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the University of Iowa.

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