D. STEWART-LOOKKIN (b. 1982, USA)
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EDUCATION
2023 M.F.A., summa cum laude, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
2005 B.A. Smith College, Northampton, MA
2004 Kansai Gaidai University’s Academic Achievement Scholar, Hirakata City, Osaka, Japan
2001 US Congress-Bundestag Exchange Scholar, Karlsbad, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Show, Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, NY
Hudson Guild Community Art Show, Hudson Guild, Manhattan, NY
2022
Precious Excess: Compulsive Acquisition, Moonah Arts Centre, Tasmania, Australia
2020
Con Artist Art Collective show, New York, NY
2005
Senior Art Show, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Laundry Show, Northampton, MA
AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS
2023
Yvonne Shortt Nature Open Grant, New York, NY
Walter Cerf Fine Arts Award, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Grad Student Teaching Fellow, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
2001- 2005
Unitarian Universalist Stanfield and D’Orlando Art Scholarship, Northampton, MA
2000
Packer Collegiate Institute’s Art Excellence Award, Brooklyn, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023
Adjunct Professor for Workshop in New Materials, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Instructor of Visible Mending & Sewing, Earth Chxrch, New York, NY
Instructor of Visible Mending & Sewing, Community Church of New York, NY
2022
Teaching Assistant with Nicholas Oh in Grad Sculpture I at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Crochet teacher at World Fellowship Center, Albany, NH
Crochet teacher at Occupy Wall Street, New York, NY
Crochet teacher at King’s Bay Y at Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Workshop Leader, Smith College Pre-Orientation Program for Students of Color, Northampton, MA
2003
Arts & Crafts teacher at Camp Mohawk, White Plain, NY
2001
Docent/Apprentice, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
1999-2000
Apprentice Educator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
SOCIAL PRACTICE
2023
Karaoke & Laundry Folding Project, New York, NY
Weed Waste Part I, Pawling & Brooklyn, NY
2022
Junk Drawer Project, New York, Brooklyn, Queens, NJ & CT
2008-present
Activist, Singer and Maker with Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, New York, NY
2020
Helped create “Xmas tree” out of Amazon boxes in front of Jeff Bezos’ apartment in NYC
Hand sewed over 100 fabric flowers for the mobile statue of Marsha P. Johnson for The Queer Liberation
March
Helped create a shield for action against the PBA (Police Benevolent Association)
2019
Member of charter Choir Council
Helped create large scale puppet lips out of cardboard for The Queer Liberation March
2018-2019
Named “Singer of the Month”
2014
Helped design and create bees out of mixed media for anti-Monsanto actions
2008-2014
Helped create costumes for The Mermaid Parade in Coney Island, NY
2007
Summer Apprenticeship with Bread & Puppet Theater, Glover, VT
PUBLICATIONS
2015
Short film, “Grandpa's Garlic” by Hye Yun Park featured my original illustrations, New York, NY
2011
My Geometric Earrings’ pattern were featured in the how-to-book, State of Craft by London-based publisher, Cicada Books, London, UK
Time Out New York Kids featured my Hugging Finger Puppets in their June/July 2011 issue, New York, NY
ARTIST COLLECTIVE
2021 - present
Co-founding member of Precious Excess Collective, New York, Tasmania, Australia & England