Artist: IlaSahai Prouty | Location: Bakersville, NC
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Artist: IlaSahai Prouty | Location: Bakersville, NC
Bakersville, NC
IlaSahai Prouty views making art, teaching, learning, and collaboration as tools for being an upstanding contributor to our time and culture. She makes art about identity, repetition, dreams, personal experiences and collaboration.
Prouty lives in the mountains, but grew up by the sea. Her bi-racial background informs how she relates to groups, makes work, and thinks about old and new ideas.
She received her MFA from the California College of Art in the Bay Area, CA, and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, where she teaches Art for Social Change. Prouty was a Resident Artist at the Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, and has exhibited at venues throughout the United States including SECCA, the Asheville Museum, and the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, MA. Her public works include pieces for the Medical Examiner’s Office in Charlotte, NC, and the Waring School, Beverly, MA.