The 2019 Artist in Residence was Eleanor Kipping. Eleanor is a socially engaged artist and educator working to increase dialogue, understanding, and healing surrounding U.S. race relations and history.

How has your practice changed?

Since when? It changes every day, every month, year, decade. It also remains the same. The variable that changes is me and my supposed understanding of the world in which we live (and the way(s) in which it changes too). I respond to my societal experiences, my aging body, my sexuality and gender, my fears, my gains and losses, my frustrations. My attractions to different tools, methods, and techniques sometimes change, but I usually return to the things I love – photo, video, word, and the body. The one thing that doesn’t change is my desire to discover what it’s all going to tell me.

Read more of Eleanor’s responses to The AP Questionnaire or learn more about her current work.