Savannah is currently burnt out (as of May 2024). So here's a blurb that makes more sense:
"My artwork investigates/considers Materiality, origin, place, and maternal lineage. I have a very complicated family history, with my maternal grandmother being Cherokee (but utterly unaware of its practices and culture for the sake of self-preservation) and my maternal grandfather being Asian-Hispanic. I grew up in a female-led household, and my grandmother and mother spoke Mexican Spanish. I grew up with the customs of my grandfather's Mexican heritage, passed on through religion (Catholicism) and ritual to my mother.
All of my handmade paper features South American and Latin American plants. The natural dyes, deep reds, and pinks throughout my work are derived from the cochineal bug, which originated in Oaxaca, Mexico. Cochineal symbolizes more than a color; it is a site of indigenous resistance, and its culture lives on through me.
I am inspired by artists who use self-portraiture and the human body, such as Ana Mendieta, Belkis Ayon, Kathe Kollwitz, Lygia Pape, and Wangechi Mutu. Kollwitz’s graphic landscapes and Mendieta’s choreography inform the images in my work that play with the visceral tactility of the female body–complicating ideas of the homogenous perceptions of birth and maternity that trap women within multiple spheres of inequality and anguish through discrimination."
-----(Professional) Savannah
Summer 2024
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency- May 26th-June 8th 2024
Anderson Ranch- July 28th- August 2nd 2024
Publications
o Experience with Adobe Photoshop and InDesign is integrated into publication projects. Publication works are listed below:
o Experience with Adobe Photoshop and InDesign is integrated into publication projects. Publication works are listed below:
Esse 2021 Literary and Art Magazine of Ursuline Academy of Dallas: Art Designer and Contributor --------------------------2020-2021
-recognized as a 2022 Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) Crown Finalist (Silver Crown)
-First Place Award in the High School Scholastic Yearbook and Magazine category for the American Scholarstic Press Association (ASPA)
-REALM First Class in the 2021 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM) program. Esse 2021 is one of only two Texas schools to receive this highest distinction.
Positive Words for Painful Times: Triumph Through Divorce Back/Front Cover Layout and Illustration 2021-2022
o Integrated InDesign and Photoshop skills to portray a client's autobiography.
Brielle and the Burbs: Hair I Come by Hailey Jones and Savannah Flores --------------------------------------------------------------------Jacket and Cover Design/Artwork 2021-2022
o Confronted the issue of Eurocentric appearances and minority experiences in children's media with the author. ---------------------------
Multiple Paper Feed: An Alternative Art Fair Spring 2023
o Sold over six hundred dollars worth of handmade zines and books to the Cornell community. Zine and independent publications featured in Cornell University's Olin Library
Ithaca Book and Zine Fair Spring 2023
o Independently curated and sold hundreds of dollars in sales with handmade zines and books in collaboration with Illuminated Press and Buffalo Street Books.
Simon & Schuster Publishing Prologue Summer 2023
o Experienced a week-long intensive and thorough corporate book publishing industry overview.
Education
Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts
GPA: 4.0 / Dean's List
Expected Graduation: May 2025
In-Progress Minors: English and a Design Innovation + Strategy Minor in Human Ecology
Grants, scholarships, and work-study fund 100% of education
Awards and Recognition
o Kip Brady Prize Recipient 2023 & 2024: Outstanding Student Contribution in Printmaking
o Ezra Colin Cornell Award in Digital Media 2023: Awarded to one student for transcending Digital Media.
Key Skills
o Design: Color Theory, Composition, And Design
o Storytelling Through Media
o Project Management
o Communication
o Collaboration
o Teaching Assistant
Technical Skills
o Adobe Suite: Photoshop (Proficient), InDesign (Professional), Illustrator, Lightroom, Audition, and Premiere Pro
o Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, And PowerPoint
o Google Suite: Docs, Sheets, And Slideshow
o Rendering Software: Sketchup, AutoCAD, Lumion, Revit
Languages
o English (Fluent)
o Spanish (Proficient)
o Kip Brady Prize Recipient 2023 & 2024: Outstanding Student Contribution in Printmaking
o Ezra Colin Cornell Award in Digital Media 2023: Awarded to one student for transcending Digital Media.
Key Skills
o Design: Color Theory, Composition, And Design
o Storytelling Through Media
o Project Management
o Communication
o Collaboration
o Teaching Assistant
Technical Skills
o Adobe Suite: Photoshop (Proficient), InDesign (Professional), Illustrator, Lightroom, Audition, and Premiere Pro
o Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, And PowerPoint
o Google Suite: Docs, Sheets, And Slideshow
o Rendering Software: Sketchup, AutoCAD, Lumion, Revit
Languages
o English (Fluent)
o Spanish (Proficient)
Printmaking Skills
o Intaglio (Proficient)
o Lithography (Intermediate)
o Screenprint (Proficient)
o Monotype (Intermediate)
o Risograph (Proficient)
o Western Relief Printmaking (Intermediate)
o Eastern Printmaking (Moku-Hanga)
o Intaglio (Proficient)
o Lithography (Intermediate)
o Screenprint (Proficient)
o Monotype (Intermediate)
o Risograph (Proficient)
o Western Relief Printmaking (Intermediate)
o Eastern Printmaking (Moku-Hanga)
Professional Experience
Simon & Schuster Publication, Children's Art, and Design Intern Summer 2023
o Intern designer for Simon Spotlight and Little Simon Imprints under Dan Potash
o Text/Artwork/Spot Art/ Manuscript placement in Simon Spotlight and Little Simon Imprint projects such as See Otto Say Hi, Left Hand, Right Hand, Transformers: No Malto Left Behind, Liz's Perfect Painting, etc., and many more.
o Created digital asset sample pages for the following books: Flashback to the Awesome 80s, Daniel Tiger: Let's Play Hide-and-Seek, CoComelon: I Like School (hardcover and paperback), Ryan's World: Wild About Sharks, Chi Chi, and Pey Pey: School Day Drama (hardcover and paperback), Our Universe: The Night Sky.
Illustrator and User Experience Designer for Witness to Mass Incarceration Non-profit Organization September 2022 - January 2023
o Support previously incarcerated individuals in society through art forms and media work, also collecting data on indigenous tribes in North America to create representational graphics.
Book Illustrator for the Powerful Journey Organization 2021-2023
o Developed front/back covers for novels empowering women and guided the creative direction of published works.
Cornell University AAP Teaching Assistant for Paul Ramirez Jonas and Jen Delos Reyes 2024-Present
o Cornell Teaching Assistant for Advanced Print Media: To Publish is to Make Publics class.
o Aid in teaching diversity, inclusion, printmaking, and community building.
Kessler Scholar: Cohort 3 2021-Present
o Expanded knowledge of the diverse first-generation community to potential students about Cornell's low-income student support.
Cornell University, College of AAP Lead Print Monitor and Gallery Assistant
Spring 2023-Present
o Mentor and aid students in print media basics, monitor studios, and print spaces.
o Lead Print Monitor position includes teaching all printmaking methodologies/techniques and maintaining chemicals/materials for lithography, screenprint, and intaglio studios.
o Curation of Olive Tjaden Hall Gallery spaces.
Exhibitions
o Curator for I See You, The Ink Shop and Olive Branch Press Show, Print Media, Ithaca, NY Spring 2023
o Exhibited Works: Untold Stories (Marginalia Edition), Bella, Several Untitled Screen-print Monotypes (All Spring 2023 Works)
o Advanced Print Media: Social Works Group Exhibition, Ithaca, NY Fall 2022
o Material Spirituality, Group Exhibition, Ithaca, NY Spring 2023
o Familia Printshop, Member Exhibition, Dallas, TX Summer 2023
o Salt: Reconnecting and Disconnecting, Solo Exhibition, Ithaca, NY Fall 2023
o THEN X NOW, Alumni Group Show, Ithaca, NY Fall 2023
o Lithography work featured in I See You, The Ink Shop, and Olive Branch Press Show in Ithaca, NY, Spring 2024
o Various Zines and Independent publications featured in a Cornell Council for the Arts Exhibition, Dewey Decimal System in Ithaca, NY, Spring 2024
o Junior Thesis Group Show, Ithaca, NY Spring 2024
o AXA 2024 Juried Prize Exhibition at the Academy of Art, New York, NY Summer/ Fall 2024