meet the 2024 tough artists
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is thrilled to welcome our 18th Tough Art Residency cohort! The following artists will begin their residency at the museum at the end of May 2024 and develop new interactive works over the summer to be exhibited in Fall 2024:
La Vispera
La Vispera
La Vispera, an art collective by Colombian immigrant artists Kelly Jiménez and Alejandro Franco, specializes in transforming discarded materials, predominantly single-use plastic, into highly crafted works of art that mimic stained glass windows. Alejandro excels in multidisciplinary art, crafting found object assemblages and paintings, while Kelly, an art director, specializes in spatial interventions for visual concepts in set design and editorials. Now based in Pittsburgh for the past two years, La Vispera is eager to deepen connections and expand their artistic horizons.
Learn more about La Vispera:
la-vispera.com
Bryce Li
Bryce Li
Bryce Li makes delightful interactive experiences from an intersection of art, design, and computing. He’s previously created an interactive exhibit for children at teamLab, and he’s a soon-to-be graduate of the Carnegie-Mellon University School of Design.
Learn more about Bryce Li:
designbybryce.com
Sydney Parcell
Sydney Parcell
Sydney is an emerging artist living in the Bay Area, and has been a student of the arts since studying at a design high school in Miami. After a short stint in the tech industry and track-bike racing, her passions led her back to art after learning about Burning Man, where she learned welding, neon, improv theater, digital fabrication, and un-learning societial “shoulds” and “should-nots”. Sydney began working at the Exploratorium as a New Media Exhibit Developer at the start of the pandemic. She believes that art should be played with and remind people that life doesn’t have to be taken so seriously.
Learn more about Sydney
https://www.sydneyparcell.com
past tough art
tough art residency
The Tough Art summer residency is offered every year.