Tallulah Cartalucca (she/her/hers) grew up in the shade of trees rooted in parkways. These childhood trees sparked her lifelong fascination with human/tree relationships: the humor, tenderness, personal memories, and aliveness of trees in the Chicago ecosystem. She lives and works in Chicago, responding to this specific urban ecological site in her practice.
Tallulah is currently pursuing her MFA in Art and Technology/Sound Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is designing kinetic sculptures, collaborating with found materials, experimenting with interactivity and sensing, and documenting her favorite trees in her neighborhood. Her sculptures and installations celebrate trees as witnesses and participants in the environment they share with humans, treating personal encounters with trees as a form of slow research. Her studio is full of branches, extension cords, printed fabric, fans, and whistles. Blending photography, printmaking, textiles, and technology, she approaches interdisciplinarity as a way of understanding our complex and evolving ecosystem.
She has shown work in Chicago, Rockford, Detroit, and Houston. She is a recipient of the Mitchell Sound Grant and the Massey Scholarship, and has presented workshops at Building Brave Spaces and the National Young Artists Summit. As an artist and arts administrator, she organizes Terrain Exhibitions in Chicago and has curated exhibitions at Lillstreet Art Center and the WasteShed.
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