Meteor Crater filming of Cocoon (2019). PC: Maya Vanderschuit
Howdy! Due to a series of injuries and faulty genetics, I am part-artist, part-horse, part-pig, and part-robot. I'm an artist and educator from the west and I consider myself a desert dweller with a penchant for the mountains. I was a science major for all of one semester in college, but environmental science and research are integral to my art practice. I bounce back and forth between being hopeful for the future of our planet and then assuming we're doomed. Frequently, I find myself asking, “how many species will humans take with us on our jolly ride into the grave of extinction?” I reflect on this joyous topic through my work, while processing the trauma my body has sustained and the natural beauties it has experienced. I find myself personifying and anthropomorphizing the lucky fictional mutants that might outlive homo-sapiens and roam the post-human landscape. As I consider the void that is speculative environmental futures, I work in what I consider therapeutic mediums: fiber art, sculpture, ceramics, installation, and trying to keep my houseplants alive.
Guild is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor and Foundations Area Head at the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2021, she graduated from the University of California, Irvine with an MFA in Art. She taught studio art at La Jolla Country Day School for 2 years after teaching K-6th grade art through the Laguna Art Museum from 2018-2021. University of San Diego in May 2016 with a dual-degree in Visual Arts and Art History. She has worked at the Art Department of CTSA at UCI, the Laguna Art Museum, Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE), the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History at USD, the New Children’s Museum, and Lux Art Institute. In 2018, she participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and ACRE in Steuben, WI. Guild has shown with ACRE, 1805 Gallery, CSU Long Beach, Wow Project LA, Great Park Gallery of Irvine, the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, the William D. Cannon Art Gallery, San Diego Art Institute, and Sebastopol Center for the Arts among others.
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