Callisa Lawn

My life in art has moved through many mediums and communities honoring the process as much as the outcome. My first job was in a ceramics studio, while film photography created a community to geek out over double exposures, destroy film with chemical solutions and exhume old thrift store cameras. My parents' work renovating old homes, refinishing furniture and tailoring vintage finds informed my perspective of care and appreciation for the craftsmanship of others. Building steel sculptures, and making the largest possible darkroom prints in my BFA, I found voice in a conceptual space and began to understand why my perspective as a maker matters. Now, I work in a darkroom to develop film and teach others the accessibility of cyanotypes. After attending the Penland School of Craft, I’ve found a home with Torched utilizing all my experience and developing a practice in small metals.