E. Saffronia Downing works with wild clay to map material residues across time and place. She received her MFA in Ceramics from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Downing has been a recipient of awards, fellowships, and residencies such as the Future Bodies symposium at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, and a studio session at A-B Project, Los Angeles, CA; grants from SPACE American Rescue Plan and Buck Lab for Climate and Environment; Fellowships at College of the Atlantic, Lunder Institute of American Art, and Oxbow School of Art; and, national and international residencies at PADA, ACRE, and Tokyo Arts University. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include A Beautiful Experience at John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; Tracks and Other Signs at Old Friends Gallery, Chicago, IL; Clay-In-Place at Triangle Projects, Los Angeles, CA; and Field Dug Over at Bad Water Gallery, Knoxville, TN. Downing is the co-creator of the digital publication ‘viral ecologies.’
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