Claire Fall Blanchette (b. 1994, Maine, USA) is an artist working across multiple disciplines including sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Using organic and unconventional materials, Claire investigates the boundaries that humans have established between the built world and the environment. Her work questions how human and non-human partnerships may offer alternative strategies of survival for more symbiotic future.
Claire is the recipient of the Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Prize (University of Arizona), Helen Gross Award (University of Arizona), Reba Stewart – Genevieve McMillan Travel Fellowship (Massachusetts College of Art and Design). She was an artist-in-residence at Djerassi Resident Artist Program (CA), The Land With No Name (AZ), and Konstepidemin Arts Center (Gothenburg, Sweden). Claire has held solo exhibitions at the Environmental Natural Resource 2 Building (AZ), Lionel Rombach Gallery (AZ), and Evelyn Peeler Peacock Gallery (NY). Claire has shown nationally and internationally in group exhibitions, including at the Joseph Gross Gallery (AZ), Lionel Rombach Gallery (AZ), Subspace Gallery (AZ), New Mexico Highlands University (NM), Tippetts & Eccles Gallery (UT), West Valley Art Museum (AZ), 440 Gallery (NY), Ejecta Projects (PA), Shoestring Press (NY), and Konstepidemin Arts Center (Gothenburg, Sweden). Claire holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Arizona in Tucson and a BFA in Printmaking and History of Art from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. She is currently the artist-in-residence in the Expressive Arts Department at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, NM.
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