Christy Georg

Christy Georg is an Artist / Adventurer. She has worked as a deckhand aboard schooners, thru-hiked the Pacific Crest and Colorado Trails, and cruised the Arctic. Courage, endurance, and fortitude are recurring themes in her artwork, studio practice, and life. She has her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and has been awarded numerous grants, residencies, and professorships.

As a sculptor, her trans-disciplinary practice incorporates performance, video, photography, drawing, installation, research, and writing. The underlying subject of the work is the human experience; existentialism. She has been called “...a sculptor of wit and ingenuity, clearly in the tradition of Jean Tinguely and Bruce Nauman, but brilliantly original in her use of existential humor to invigorate the works” by Rob Fisher.

Teaching and education are an ongoing priority in her practice. She has taught at institutions including Massachusetts College of Art, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Program, Maine College of Art, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, the Institute for American Indian Arts, and Santa Fe Community College. She has taught workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Espaniola Valley Fiber Arts Center, Fiber College of Maine, Open Bench Project in Portland Maine, and MAKE Santa Fe. She is currently employed as the Operations Manager at the nonprofit makerspace MAKE Santa Fe. Beyond her studio, she hikes with her dog Killick in the aspens, kayaks reservoirs, teaches yoga & fabrication classes, and strives towards a minimalist lifestyle.