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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
Education 
2025             B.F.A, Fine Art 
            Cornell University 
          College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

Professional Experience 
2023-2024        Lead Printmaking Monitor, Intaglio Expertise, Cornell University 
2024            Cornell AAP Career Development Advisor, Ithaca, NY
2024            Studio Assistant, Paul Ramirez Jonas,
 La Pulperia Press, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 
2023-2024        Teaching Assistant, Cornell University 
(Advanced Print Media: To Publish is to Make Publics, SP24) Ithaca, NY 
2023             Children’s Art and Design Intern, Simon & Schuster Publication, New York, NY
Selected Awards and Recognition 
2025             Cornell Department of Art, Anderson Ranch Printmaking Scholarship 
2024            AXA Art Prize US, Finalist, New York Academy of Art
2024 & 2023        Kip Brady Prize Recipient for Outstanding Student Contribution in Printmaking    
2023 & 2024         Creative Research Grant, Cornell University 
2023            Ezra Colin Cornell Award in Digital Media
Exhibitions 
2025             Two-Person Exhibition to woo, to wane, to bind, to bear, Ithaca, NY
2024            Group Exhibition, Homeward, Ithaca, NY
2024            Group Exhibition, I See You, The Ink Shop, and Olive Branch Press Show, Ithaca, NY
2024            Group Exhibition, Cornell Council for the Arts Exhibition,
Dewey Decimal System, Ithaca, NY                                                                     
2024                      Group Exhibition, AXA Art Prize US 2024 Juried Exhibition 
New York Academy of Art, New York City, NY
2023            Curator/Group Exhibitor for I See You, The Ink Shop and Olive Branch Press Show, 
                Print Media, Ithaca, NY                                                                                                                       
2023            Group Exhibition, Material Spirituality, Ithaca, NY                                                                 
2023            Group Exhibition, Familia Printshop: Member Exhibition, Dallas, TX                                                               
2023            Solo Exhibition, Salt: Reconnecting and Disconnecting, Solo Exhibition, Ithaca, NY                                      
2023            Group Exhibition, THEN X NOW, An Alumni Show, Ithaca, NY         
2022            Group Exhibition, Advanced Print Media: Social Works, Ithaca, NY                                       
                                                                    
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 Wordsfor Painful Times: Triumph Through Divorce, Illustrator   
2021-2022         Brielle and the Burbs: Hair I Come, Illustrator 
Workshops2024             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 
2024             SGCI (Southern Graphics Council International) Various Workshops Participant, 
Providence, RI 
2023             Pace Prints Monotype Workshop by Sarah Carpenter, Ithaca, NY 
            


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