Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Lin Elkins
March 13 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Free
Gallery Talk with Winter Residency Fellow Lin Elkins | NextFab, 1800 North American Street | Fri. March 13, 2025 | 6:30 pm EST | In-person event
Join us for a gallery talk with the 2026 Winter Residency Fellow Lin Elkins. The residency is designed for artists in Greater Philadelphia who work in the medium of wood and is a collaboration between the Museum for Art in Wood and NextFab. An exhibition of the work created over the two-month-long program will be presented at NextFab.
ABOUT LIN ELKINS
Lin is an artist, furniture maker, and craftswoman based in Philadelphia, PA. Lin holds a BS in Furniture Design from Appalachian State University. Post graduate, Lin has been a Fellow at UNC Asheville, a craft education intern at North House Folk School, the Staff Fellow and Media Coordinator at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. She also has assisted and led education courses at a variety of institutions, including Penland School of Craft and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
She is driven by the dichotomy between the natural and the built environment and how that tension affects the spiritual and physical connection we have to ourselves and the world around us. She explores this through purposeful functionality, playfulness, and art, creating opportunities for moments of comfort, wonder, and curiosity.
ABOUT NEXTFAB
NextFab is a network of membership-based makerspaces that provide access to tools, technology, education, events, and services for makers and creatives. They offer a variety of education and startup programs, as well as professional design, production, and placemaking services for whatever your fabrication needs.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM FOR ART IN WOOD
The Museum for Art in Wood is a museum of contemporary art, craft, and design in the material of wood. The Museum presents the work of emerging and established artists from the United States and abroad and offers thought-provoking exhibitions, a permanent collection of over 1,300 objects and works of art, publications and documentation, events and workshops, and a library with over 26,000 artist files, books, and documents that span the history of craft. The Museum also brings artists and researchers from around the world to Philadelphia every year to attend its unique Windgate Artist Residency Program.
If you have questions, please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at [email protected].