Faculty

Eleanor Kipping (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based artist, educator and arts administrator. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the experience of the Black body in the united states diaspora through the examination and deconstruction of historical and contemporary narratives. She is interested in the public, private, and civic negotiations of race, gender, in addition to the effect and practice of violence and surveillance. This hybrid work exists as performance, video, and photography, poetry/spoken word, collaborative education, educational collaboration, installation. She has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2018), School of Visual Arts (2019), and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2020) and her work has been exhibited at Portland Museum of Art, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Yellow Fish Durational Performance Festival, and more. She is the Co-Founder and Director of Camp El Arts, and artist residency and retreat located in rural Penobscot, Maine and is also the Marketing Associate at the East Harlem based non-profit Hi-ARTS.