Artists Residency

Roslyn Dupré is a bricoleur and mixed-media artist who blends humble materials and craft to fashion sewn papers and woven constructions. A former geoscientist and editor, she is a maker of objects, an observer, and a commentator. Much of her work is abstracted commentary, with constructed objects capturing her reflections of the world around her. Her objects sometimes embody expressions of memory, reinterpreted in the context of new realities and greater experience. Others are more distant and less immediately narrative but are careful compositions of action and material, form and response. The historical significance of the materials she uses is integral to her work, as each object carries the weight of its past and does not pretend to exist without it.

Dupré earned an MFA in the Sculpture Department from the Katherine G. McGovern School of Art, University of Houston. Recent solo shows have included The daily devotional at Lawndale, which was accompanied by Rabea Ballin’s thoughtful essay, and On US at LRT Gallery. Her work was also recently included in the Texas Biennial 2024’s The Last Sky: Thermals and Thresholds at Sawyer Yards and is on display at Hobby Airport as part of the City of Houston’s Civic Art Collection.

To learn more about Roslyn Dupré, visit https://www.roslyndupre.com/.

Roslyn’s residency is generously sponsored in part by Phyllis Childress.

Katie Mongoven/秋莲 is a Chinese American fiber artist from Washington, DC, based in Detroit, Michigan. Using thread, hair, beads, and found ceramics, she examines the themes of identity, ornamentalism, and bodily autonomy as they interact within the Asian American diaspora, viewed through the lens of an orphan and adoptee from China’s one-child-policy era.

Mongoven received a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, along with the Surface Design Association’s Outstanding Student Award. She was a Roman J. Witt Visiting Artist at the University of Michigan, a Windgate University Fellow at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, and the Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University. Other residencies she attended include the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Michigan, with a forthcoming residency at Stove Works. Solo and group exhibitions include the University of Michigan, Playground Detroit, and Riffe Gallery and ROY G BIV Gallery in Ohio.

To learn more about Katie Mongoven, visit katiemongoven.com.

Katie’s residency is generously sponsored in part by Scott & Judy Nyquist and Jerome Schultz.

Lorena Morales is a multidisciplinary visual artist currently based in Houston, Texas. Her work relates to the evolving nature of home and the significance of what this carries for an individual and their identity in a rapidly changing world. Through a variety of materials, she explores the relationship between personal and collective experiences, stories, and contexts, challenging the viewer to further discover the simultaneously positive and negative feelings surrounding home by exploring spaces that are intangible, metaphoric and psychological.

Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Morales holds certificates in painting and sculpture from the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as well as a degree in business administration. She completed the Block XIX Program at the Glassell School of Art, and was also awarded a grant by the Carlos Cruz-Diez Foundation and the Glassell School of Art for participation in an advanced seminar in contemporary art. She was one of the selected 2021/22 artists-in-residence at the L’AIR Arts Research Residency in Paris, France, and in 2023, she joined the hybrid art residency Mar Adentro at Puertas Adentro in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Morales’ work has been exhibited extensively in art galleries, nonprofit organizations, and art museums in Texas, as well as nationally and internationally, in Venezuela, France, Uruguay, and Germany. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, City of Houston’s Civic Art Collection, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and in many other public and private collections. More recently, Morales was selected as the 1^st Place winner for The Wendy Wagner Foundation 2024 Fall Trio Creative Grant. Her work is represented by Hooks-Epstein Galleries in Houston, Texas, and Contemporaneo Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina.

To learn more about Lorena Morales, visit https://www.lorenamorales.com/.

Lorena’s residency was generously sponsored in part by Phyllis Childress.