Charlie Best '18 to visit Alfred University as Artist in Residence
Alfred University graduate Charlie Best, artist, teacher, and seamstrix, will be an Artist in Residence beginning April 5 at Alfred University’s Institute for Electronic Arts, School of Art and Design.
Alfred University graduate Charlie Best, artist, teacher, and seamstrix, will be an Artist in Residence beginning April 5 at Alfred University’s Institute for Electronic Arts, School of Art and Design.
Best earned a B.F.A. degree from Alfred University in 2018. Best's multidisciplinary practice has yielded experimental digital and analog media, performance, fiberwork, and works on paper. This practice is devoted to the visual and material culture of queer/trans lineage and life.
Currently, Best studies kids' PC games, found footage, and garment construction. Best is a white trans/nonbinary settler, born and educated on the lands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of Nations, specifically the Onöndowa’ga:’, or Seneca Nation. (Buffalo, NY, Western New York, and the Southern Tier.)
The Institute for Electronic Art’s Experimental Projects Residency is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Schein-Joseph Endowment. Under COVID-19 protocols sadly any in-person engagements with students and IEA AIRs will not be possible.