Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, Anna Ialeggio has a solo exhibition at Cornell University’s Glass Box in Fernow Hall (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences). Entitled “Core Samples,” the exhibition showcases creative and material research from Ialeggio’s Wells College Summer Research Grant (2023). Clay-heavy soil samples from several sites of prairie rehabilitation are plumbed through high-fire processes to reveal their various ineffable qualities as ceramic glazes, and to meditate on the cyclical nature of reclamation in an age of massive climactic and cultural drift. The next phase of this project will be shown in Fall 2024.
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Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, Anna Ialeggio has received a significant grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation on behalf of The Soil Factory, an interdisciplinary project space in Ithaca, NY. The grant will fund the Soil Factory’s artist-in-residence program, which connects contemporary artists and cultural workers with scientists, farmers, and community members to discuss, experiment, and collaborate on creative solutions to global ecological & social issues.
An essay entitled “The Second Field” by Anna Ialeggio, Assistant Professor of Studio Art. is included in the upcoming publication, The New Farmers Almanac, Vol VI: Adjustments and Accommodations. Greenhorns, via Chelsea Green Press, forthcoming Jan 2023.
Anna Ialeggio, Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, was awarded an artist grant by the Puffin Foundation, Ltd (July 2022). This grant supports the presentation of TWO DIFFRN’T HAYSTACKS, a site-specific sculpture made from locally- grown hay, commissioned by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, NY from August – December 2022.
Anna Ialeggio, Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, has been awarded the 2022 Ursula Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship by the UO Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at the University of Oregon. This award supports travel for the purpose of research on, and work with, the papers of feminist science fiction authors housed in SCUA. Ialeggio’s research will support an upcoming exhibition of experimental documentary, drawing, sculpture and text centered on ecological reclamation and science fiction world-building.