Jordan Craig, 2018.
Photograph by Garret Vreeland. Copyright 2018 School for Advanced Research.
Jordan Craig
Culture: Northern Cheyenne
Northern Cheyenne painter and printmaker Jordan Ann Craig came to IARC as an emerging artist. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015 with a B.A in Studio Art and Psychology. While at Dartmouth she was a Curatorial Fellow at the Black Family Visual Arts Center and a Studio Art Special Instructor.
Craig’s paintings, prints and artist books are meticulous, and sometimes obsessive in mark or repetition. She draws her inspiration from Aboriginal art, Indigenous textiles and pottery, and landscapes. She tells stories about her childhood, family, trauma, and the appealing mundane.
Craig comments: "Using dots, peculiar geometries, cut paper, and pattern, I explore the feeling of forgetting how to sleep, the memory of building homes in trees, and the translation of language and dreams. I seek to balance the familiar and the mysterious, shared stories and secrets."
Craig’s paintings, prints and artist books are meticulous, and sometimes obsessive in mark or repetition. She draws her inspiration from Aboriginal art, Indigenous textiles and pottery, and landscapes. She tells stories about her childhood, family, trauma, and the appealing mundane.
Craig comments: "Using dots, peculiar geometries, cut paper, and pattern, I explore the feeling of forgetting how to sleep, the memory of building homes in trees, and the translation of language and dreams. I seek to balance the familiar and the mysterious, shared stories and secrets."