I invite people to risk engaging with others to understand themselves through visual, interactive, social, performative, and community-based work. I pursue actions, collaborations and installations in a range of contexts, including long-standing and temporary communities. 

I also cultivate a personal studio practice across media, including drawing/painting, writing, printmaking and glass work. This work has involved exploring personally restorative work in balance with my socially engaged projects.

The connective thread in all my work is my desire to build community and redress the significant social issues that afflict our society. I use art to lift up, to question, to connect, to give power, and to learn. I am committed to building and sustaining the connections between individual creative practice, collaborations with others, and social justice.

Bio

IlaSahai Prouty lives in the mountains, and also by the sea. She received her MFA from the California College of Art, a BA from Brown University. She is currently an assistant professor in the Art Department at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. She was a Core Fellow, and Resident Artist at the Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC and has exhibited at venues throughout the United States.

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