Tallulah Cartalucca (she/her/hers) grew up in the shade of trees rooted in parkways. Childhood trees sparked her lifelong fascination with urban natural relationships: the humor, tenderness, personal memories, and aliveness of the Chicago ecosystem where she lives and works.
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 objects, creating poetry with interactivity and sensing, and documenting her favorite trees. Her sculptures and installations celebrate objects as witnesses and participants in the spaces they share with humans, treating personal encounters with nature as a form of slow research. Her studio is full of branches, extension cords, printed fabric, fans, and whistles. Blending sound, 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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