Cycle 4.0 applications are live! Head to the link in our bio to apply for our fall cohort 🫂
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Inbound Collaborative Studio is a community learning, engagement and skill sharing project.
Each member participates with these questions in mind:
-What do I want to learn?
-What can I teach?
-What do I want to make?
During the 10-week program, participants are paired with one collaborator in Chicago, IL. Together, you work on a project, participate in a skill share, and present your collaborative work within a cohort of pairs.
1. Community Learning
Make a project with a collaborator
2. Skill Sharing
Participate in skill share exchanges
3. Community Engagement
Exhibit your collaborative project with an event open to the community
Cycle 4.0 will begin on August 25th.
Application deadline is August 10th at 12pm CST.
A Cycle 3 project highlight from the collaboration between @6u6usaferoom and @eatsbeads4fun 🦋
“Dream of the Butterfly is an interactive installation that explores the tension between freedom and entrapment, reality and illusion, and personal transformation within restrictive structures. Drawing from Zhuangzi’s philosophical parable, the work evokes a dreamlike state where the boundaries between truth and illusion blur. A maze of rigid copper symbolizes systems of control that confine and dictate movement, while delicate ceramic butterflies navigate the space—fragile yet resilient emblems of femininity and metamorphosis. With no clear exit, the maze reflects an ongoing search for identity, inviting viewers into a space of disorientation, reflection, and becoming.”
Untitled
“Does water hold memory? Do we share a consciousness with the elements that not only surround us, but are found within us? Untitled is a tap into a collective consciousness, created intuitively and collaboratively by @y2keykey and @olivia.gov_ through trust, process, and connection—leading to an esoteric altar for reflection. With candles acting as a marker of time, liquified wax combines with water below to represent the ephemeral nature of life’s many cycles. Earth, water, air, and fire combine in the process and representation, emphasizing an elemental connectedness. Offering a penny for your thoughts, we invite you to make a wish into the spiraling well—perhaps the water will remember your wish.”
Angel numbers discovered on the back of a vanity mirror @y2keykey and @olivia.gov_ sourced for their collaborative piece. A good omen? Come find out at tonight’s showcase 🌀
“Getting to imagine something as large, intricate, and exciting as this would not have been possible without Lulu & inbound. The playfulness & connection I’ve experienced during this time has been refreshing, tender-hearted, and meaningful. I’ve found my metalsmithing practice to be quite independent and of a small-scale, so getting the chance to produce something of this magnitude alongside such talented people is truly one of a kind.” -Ali Romero on her collaboration with Lulu Chang.
2 days left until our showcase! Come by this Friday to see the pair’s finished work 🦋
Inbound showcase 3.0 is just around the corner! Join us on Friday, April 25th in celebrating some fabulous collaborations alongside music, drinks, and an interactive group activity.
Congratulations!
@y2keykey@olivia.gov_@eatsbeads4fun@6u6usaferoom
Poster by cycle 3 artist @olivia.gov_
-Inbound Collaborative Studio is a community learning, engagement, and skill sharing project. Over the course of 10 weeks artists participate in collaborative projects with these three questions in mind: What do I want to learn? What can I teach? What do I want to make?-
Introducing Keyarah Peppel, collaborating artist on Cycle 3.
Keyarah Peppel is a multidisciplinary Chicago based artist, working in painting, drawing, fibers, sculpture, and installation. Her work often centers grief, memory, nostalgia, identity, and sometimes fantasy. These themes are explored through materiality and color. She holds a BFA in Studio Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has displayed work in various galleries in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Introducing Olivia Chasteney, collaborating artist on Cycle 3.
Olivia is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with a reverence for the mundane, the overlooked, and the hidden in plain sight. She seeks to understand how the visual language and physical materials of everyday life connect us to ourselves and to each other.
Her practice is centered around looking, looking closely, and looking again. After doing a lot of Looking, she likes to experiment with intuitive approaches to traditionally rigid methods, including stained glass and oil painting.
Introducing Gab Scaff, collaborating artist on Cycle 3.
Gab Scaff is a queer, Brazilian-American multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL with a focus in hand and machine knitwear, textiles and ceramics. Gab has a passion for machine knitting and strives to pass down her knowledge to keep the art of machine knitwear alive. In addition to her own practice, Gab runs enid, an independent designer and artist showroom in West Town, Chicago dedicated to celebrating the creativity and innovation of independent designers. In her free time, you can find Gab at a coffee shop or cuddling her cat (Mino) and dog (Louie).
Introducing Lino Gil, collaborating artist on Cycle 3.
Lino Gil is a filmmaker and musician based in Chicago. While they have a background in the art department of filmmaking they also compose for the screen and are immersed in the process of combining sound and image.
Introducing Lulu Luyao Chang, collaborating artist on Cycle 3.
Lulu Luyao Chang (b.1996, Hyogo, Japan) is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator in Chicago and New York, working in installation, sculpture, ceramics and video, exploring social norms and repressions. She holds a BA in Art History from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and an MFA from School of Visual Arts in New York. She received ArtTable Fellowship in 2022 and she is one of the panelists of The State of LGBTQ of China organized by The China Project. She had her solo show at Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC) | Gallery 456 in NYC. Her work is also shown at Art Fair | Detroit in Detroit, Zero Art Fair in upstate NY, and Latitude Gallery, IRL Gallery, LatchKey Gallery, in NYC, etc. Her video screened at The China Project in NYC and Aotu Space in Beijing. Her essay published on academic journal World Art and her co-authored article is published on GUERNICA.
