Kelly Tapia-Chuning Among International Sculpture Center's 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement Awardees
Kelly Tapia-Chuning, home is in the purple line cradled by the land, what’s above and below (el hogar está en la línea violeta acuñada por la tierra, lo que está arriba y abajo), 2023
dismantled serape (Mexican blanket), dried desert globemallow harvested in southern Utah during a superbloom, handmade vessel made with reclaimed copper from Utah, copper nails. 79 x 50 x 9 inches.
Recent Cranbrook Academy of Art graduate, Kelly Tapia-Chuning was recently named one of the International Sculpture Center’s 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awardees. Her work, “home is in the purple line cradled by the land, what’s above and below (el hogar está en la línea violeta acuñada por la tierra, lo que está arriba y abajo)” (2023) is featured from her submission. Tapia-Chuning’s artist statement is available to read in full on her website.
The International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award was founded in 1994 to recognize young sculptors and encourage their continued commitment to the field of sculpture, as well as to recognize the award recipients’ faculty sponsors and their institutions.
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