Arts/Industry Featured Artists

For multidiscipline artist Jacob Olmedo, Kohler and art are a familiar duo. Having grown up nearby, Jacob shares the questions that inform their work today, as well as the central role Ruth DeYoung Kohler’s mentorship played in shaping the artist they’ve become.

Sculptor Lee Running works with painstaking care in a variety of mediums, creating works that draw attention to invisible labor and human impact on nature.

Arts/Industry resident Chotsani Elaine Dean offers a unique perspective on working with clay, economies built on trade, and creating art in a manufacturing setting.

L.A. artist and recent Kohler Arts/Industry resident Harold Mendez shares his experience as a first-generation American exploring the intersection of art, culture, and identity.

Radically unapologetic and brilliantly nuanced, multimedia artist and scholar Sarah K. Khan introduces us to her pantheon of heroes, their lives unbound from the 16th-century Book of Delights.

Arts/Industry resident Joann Quiñones explores material culture, in particular 18^th century decorative arts, complicating the narratives of who and what is valued in society and why.

Arriving at the residency after their twelfth heart surgery and keenly aware of their body, Jesse’s work imagines new possibilities at the intersection of queerness and neuro or physical divergence.

See Israeli artist Talia Mukmel at work in the Kohler foundry during her Arts/Industry residency. Get a glimpse into her process and the inspiration behind her art.