Maria Fernanda Nuñez Alzate named a recipient of the 2020 Penland Core Fellowship, a two-year work study fellowship at the Penland School of Crafts, an international center for craft education located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The Penland Core Fellowship offers emerging artists the opportunity to explore artistic interests and career possibilities while living and working in a supportive creative community.

Nuñez is a Colombian-born artist currently based in Portland, Oregon.  After spending her formative years in Bogotá, where she studied photography at the Zone Five School of Film and Photography, she relocated to the United States in 2011 to pursue a BFA in Sculpture at the California College of the Arts, which she completed in 2015. She is currently completing a Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory and Creative Research at the Oregon Institute for Creative Research, where she also works as a design and research assistant.  Although her interests are interdisciplinary, her work is primarily sculpture-based, utilizing a wide range of materials and focusing on themes of hybridity and liminality.  Her latest body of work, “Fragments of the Incorruptible Corpse,” draws upon a collection of nonfiction writing and drawings as well as video and installation components.

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