About Savannah, the artist, designer, and community member...
Biography
Savannah Flores is a senior Bachelor of Fine Art student at Cornell University (BFA’ 25), deeply involved with Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning ecosystem. She is a peer career advisor at the Cornell AAP Career Services Office and a Lead Print Monitor in the Art Department. She has been a teaching assistant to Paul Ramirez Jonas, Chair of the Art Department. She has garnered national and regional recognition in the fine arts and publication, as she has been featured in the Ithaca Book and Zine Fair and Printed Matter. Moreover, she is currently a finalist in the New York Academy of Art’s 2024 AXA Prize. Along with fine art, Savannah is exceptionally passionate about book publishing, production, and design, and she even completed an internship at Simon & Schuster Publication in Children’s Design during her sophomore summer. In her spare time, she illustrates and creates zine resources for all types of communities.
Artist Statement
Savannah uses the body as a metaphor for intergenerational trauma in first-generation minority households through processes of printmaking and papermaking. Her visceral layering of handmade paper, silhouettes, and archival images expresses the enduring impact of settler colonialism and assimilation on the individual and the collective. To disrupt these colonial structures, Savannah represents bodies in migration, speaking to and colliding with colorful abstract worlds encompassing a hereditary past/present space. Her work highlights the rawness of disrupted motherly relationships as an effect of these structures. Her work is a homage to mothers and grandmothers who attempt to heal their wounds through their daughters' experiences, often mirroring the same pain they've experienced. Savannah’s work aims to prove that colonial structures and assimilation still impact millions of families today.
Curriculum Vitae (Fall 2024)
Contact: scf76@cornell.edu
Phone: 469-403-4152
Website: savannahflores.art
Phone: 469-403-4152
Website: savannahflores.art
Education
2025 B.F.A, Fine Art
Cornell University, School of Architecture, Art, and Planning
2025 B.F.A, Fine Art
Cornell University, School of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Professional Experience
2023-2024 Lead Printmaking Monitor, Intaglio Expertise, Cornell University
2024 Career Development Advisor,
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY
2024 Assistant to Paul Ramirez Jonas, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023-2024 Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023 Simon & Schuster Publication, Children’s Art and Design Intern, New York, NY
Selected Awards and Recognition
2024 AXA Art Prize US, Finalist, New York Academy of Art
2024 & 2023 Kip Brady Prize Recipient for Outstanding Student Contribution in Printmaking
2023 Ezra Colin Cornell Award in Digital Media
2023 & 2024 Creative Research Grant, Cornell University
Exhibitions
2023 Curator for I See You, The Ink Shop, and Olive Branch Press Show,
Media, Ithaca, NY
2022 Advanced Print Media: Social Works, Group Exhibition, Ithaca, NY
2023 Material Spirituality, Group Exhibition, Ithaca, NY
2023 Familia Printshop: Member Exhibition, Dallas, TX
2023 Salt: Reconnecting and Disconnecting, Solo Exhibition, Ithaca, NY
2023 THEN X NOW, Alumni Group Show, Ithaca, NY
2024 I See You, The Ink Shop, and Olive Branch Press Show, Ithaca, NY
2024 Cornell Council for the Arts Exhibition, Dewey Decimal System, Ithaca, NY
2024 AXA Art Prize US 2024 Juried Exhibition at the New York Academy of Art
Publications & Facilitated Art Fairs
2024 Showpony Studios, Facilitated Community Print Sale & Vendor Fair, Ithaca, NY
2024 Labels, La Pulperia Press, Production Manager for Paul Ramirez Jonas
2023 & 2024 Multiple Paper Feed: An Alternative Art Fair, Ithaca, NY
2023 & 2024 Ithaca Book and Zine Fair, Vendor, Ithaca, NY
2021-2022 Positive Words for Painful Times: Triumph Through Divorce, Illustrator
2021-2022 Brielle and the Burbs: Hair I Come, Illustrator
Workshops
2024 Lithography: Stone & Photolithography,
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2024 Oil and Water: Collagraph, Stencils & Monoprint with Sue Oehme, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2023 Pace Prints Monotype Workshop by Sarah Carpenter, Ithaca, NY