Eileen Braun

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts and have lived and worked in Atlanta Georgia since 2004. Previously I have served as Executive Director for a suburban New York cultural arts center, Art Educator and Buyer/Manager for the Spertus Museum in Chicago. I am a Hambidge Fellow and a lifelong mentor in the arts.

My work is heavily influenced by my interest in nurture and science. As a child, dinnertime conversations were a blend of my mother attending to our growing family needs and my father sharing updates from the scientific community – specifically his occupation: testing metallurgical samples – often by x-ray.
My current sculptural work in many ways blends these two. I create biomorphic forms (species) that appear to be communicating human-like emotional needs < nurture>. These newly formed organisms represent a new species conjured in my studio by cross-breeding insects, fish and vegetation. Their skeletal hulls revealing a phase of their life cycle, living in colonies. One can contemplate their offstage evolution: the desiccated hull revealing germ, the pending emergence of new life from chrysalis. The ectoplasm now peeling away from the structure, miraculously composed of metal, revealed .
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I have my BA in Sculpture and Art Education from Indiana University. My unique visual arts voice was developed primarily through intensive exploration and discovery in my home studio. It is exciting for me when a materials boundaries are an unknown. Unsupervised in my studio I am free to experiment and push my materials, then use my skills of observation to repeat the resulting effects.

Ms. Braun exhibits nationally; has her work in numerous private and corporate exhibitions; received the NICHE Award (2014 & 2015) ; and has been included in exhibitions at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA), San Angelo Museum of Art (TX), MESA (AZ), HCCA (TX), AMOCA (CA), and MFA Boston (MA). Her teapots are in both the Kamm and Arthur Goldberg Collections and featured in Lark Books 500 Teapots II. In Georgia she has had work in 2 Hartsfield Jackson Airport exhibitions Ceramix: Georgia’s Creative Claymakers (2015-16), E-Merge: Contemporary Atlanta Artists (2013-4), and Georgia Artists Selecting Artists (2013) MOCA GA.