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Kaleena Stasiak

Assistant Professor of Art Printmaking

I am the Area Head and Assistant Professor of Art in the Printmaking Area. I organize and run the printmaking studio, teach printmaking classes, and am the faculty advisor for Pixel Press: UM Print + Photo Club.

Research Interests

I am an interdisciplinary artist who uses an assortment of haptic media to explore collective mythmaking, and its relevance to the present day. Digging through a lexicon of symbols and imagery evoking American colonial times, folk art, and quilts, I reframe the dominant ideologies surrounding early history and domestic labor. My graphic cyphers denote the power and breadth of traditional women’s work, functional handicraft, and the impulse to create. Decoration and ornamentation become expressions of desire, signifiers of identity, and autobiographical documentation of lives omitted from text-based historical narratives and artistic discourse.

Biography

Originally from Ontario, Canada, I hold a BFA in Printmaking from the Ontario College of Art and Design and an MFA in Printmaking & Book Arts from the University of Georgia. Recent shows include Prevailing Winds at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, Tournament of Lies at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, Ancient Art Objects at Whitespace in Atlanta, GA, and Identity Measures at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, LA. I have taught printmaking workshops at St. Michael’s Printshop in St. John’s, NF, where I was the May 2023 Visiting Artist, and at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts. I have also completed residencies at Stoveworks in Chattanooga, TN and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. In 2017 I founded the South East Women Wrestlers, a performance troupe based in Athens, GA, that uses the spectacle of wrestling to reframe stereotypes and representations of femininity.

Courses Taught

Education

MFA Fine Arts, University of Georgia (2018)