Join us for Making It!, an ongoing series featuring visiting artists talking about their work, careers, and their experiences 'making it' in the arts. On April 23rd, hear from multidisciplinary artist Eric Araujo. 

Eric Araujo is a multidisciplinary artist from New York. His practice extends across various mediums such as sculpture, painting, and drawing. Eric received his BFA from Pratt Institute and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Eric’s work has been shown in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the di Rosa Preserve in Napa Valley, the Canzani Center Gallery at Columbus College of Art and Design, Johannson Projects in Oakland CA, BRIC Arts Brooklyn and Raritan Valley Community College in NJ. In 2017 he was the Sculpture Fellow at The Bascom Center for the Arts in Highlands, NC where he created 3 large-scale permanent outdoor public works, and during the summer of 2018 collaborated with the artist Danh Vo on new sculptures that were exhibited at the SMK in Copenhagen and various other venues across the globe. In 2023 Eric had a solo exhibition of sculpture and wall works  with Chashama in New York and was an artist in residence at JOYA: AiR in Andalusia, Spain.  Last year  he was included in a group exhibition at the Museum of Northern California Art and was included in Ends Well, an outdoor sculpture group exhibition with Field Projects and Mother-in-Law’s in Germantown, NY. Most recently he is the recipient of the FST Studio Projects Fund Grant awarded to artists in NYC to help offset the high costs of studio rent.

This event in the Making It! series will take place virtually via Zoom.