NICOLE HAVEKOST 94 PR

nikimade

Based in Rochester, MN

How does your current creative practice tie into your time spent at RISD?

I make work because I want to see what it looks like. Learning to trust that curiosity and investigate is a lesson learned from RISD that I still practice. Twenty five years later, I have much less fear about failing in that process; failure is where the learning happens. I wish I could share that experience with my younger student self, but in my time since RISD, I feel like I have grown into the possibility of artist that the school first recognized.

Is there a work/body of work that you are particularly excited about sharing with us at RISD Craft this year?

I recently found the best estate sale ever in my neighborhood. The homeowner was a doll collector, and I brought all sorts of dolls, parts and accessories home with me. I am already taking the dolls apart, reconfiguring the body parts and sculpting brand new parts for them. These dolls will be cousins to my Frankenstuffies, but allow me to tell a different kind of story.

Any recent press, exhibitions, achievements or awards you’d like to share with us?

I recently had a solo exhibition in the Anderson Gallery at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, California. A lovely review written by Gabrielle Gopinath can be viewed here.

I will be exhibiting 5 large scale works at the Southbend Museum of Art Biennial 30 in Southbend, Indiana in July 27 – September 29, 2019.

I will be teaching the workshop “Doll as Storyteller” at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, November 3 – 9, 2019.

To see more of Nicole’s work, visit www.nikimade.com