ELIOT SPAULDING
Interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sustainability, craft and community
Born 1990 in Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA, USA
805 . 252 . 2712
eliotspaulding@gmail.com
eliotspaulding.com
ARTIST WORK EXPERIENCE
2024 Guest Speaker/Teaching Artist, Climate & The Arts Youth Workshop, Community Environmental Council, Santa Barbara, CA
2020 - Current Artist, Studio ESB Painting & Illustration Studio, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Visiting Teaching Artist, MOXI The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Selected Application Reviewer, The J.M.K. Innovation Prize, New York, NY
2015 - 2023 Artist/Designer, Eliot Spaulding Studio Custom Art & Installation, Santa Barbara, CA
2021 - 2022 Designer Assistant, Sarah Walker Design Studio, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 - 2020 Contemporaries Committee Member, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 - 2019 Traveling Display Artist, Anthropologie (URBN Inc.), Philadelphia, PA
2010 - 2019 Display Coordinator, Anthropologie, Santa Barbara, CA
RESIDENCIES
2024 (forthcoming - July) Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture, Sisters, OR
2024 (forthcoming - June) StudioWorks, Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport, ME
2024 Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve, Ojai, CA
AWARDS
2024 Selected Artist, Explore Ecology / Santa Barbara Office of Arts & Culture Grant, Santa Barbara, CA
2022 Juried Scholarship, European Cultural Academy, Venice, IT
2012 Honors in Outstanding Scholastic Achievement, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Art, Orange, CA
2012 Best in Sculpture, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Art, Orange, CA
2012 Artist of the Year, Chapman University Panhellenic Council, Orange, CA
2011 Best Senior Design Show, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Art, Orange, CA
2008 - 2012 Merit Scholarship, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2008 - 2012 Chancellor’s List, Chapman University, Orange, CA
EDUCATION / SPECIAL COURSEWORK
2022 European Cultural Academy, Venice, IT (Contemporary Art course)
Awarded a scholarship to further develop ‘10 Knots’ installation concept through an immersive contemporary art course held amidst the 59th Venice Biennale.
2012 BFA cum laude with Departmental Honors, Graphic Design with 3D Environmental Display Emphasis, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2011 Chapman University & NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, La Cañada Flintridge, CA (The Intersection of Art and Science course)
Selected for 15 student experimental pilot course taught by artist Lia Halloran. Created interdisciplinary work for exhibition informed by meeting with Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, and weekly visits to JPL campus observing astrophysicists, engineers, and scientists at work on special projects.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Sullivan Goss Gallery, 100 GRAND, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, 5 x 5, Montecito, CA
2023 Chris White Gallery, Chapel of Tears, Willmington, DE
2022 Community Arts Workshop, Ready to Hang, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Juried Biannual Departmental Showcase, Orange, CA
2011 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Insomnia: Design That Never Sleeps, Orange, CA
2011 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Juried Biannual Departmental Showcase, Orange, CA
2011 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, LASSO: Art & Science at NASA JPL, Orange, CA
2011 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Juried Biannual Departmental Showcase, Orange, CA
PUBLICATIONS
Robbins, Cara. “Journal: Eliot Spaulding”, Cara Robbins, January 9, 2024.
https://www.cararobbins.com/journal/eliotspaulding
“Visible Mending Workshop with Artist Eliot Spaulding”, MOXI The Wolf Musuem of Exploration + Innovation, November 17, 2023.
https://moxi.org/calendar/visible-mending-workshop/
Anthropologie (author), The Art of Anthropologie, Rizzoli New York 2022, p. 150-151
2024 Guest Speaker/Teaching Artist, Climate & The Arts Youth Workshop, Community Environmental Council, Santa Barbara, CA
2020 - Current Artist, Studio ESB Painting & Illustration Studio, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Visiting Teaching Artist, MOXI The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Selected Application Reviewer, The J.M.K. Innovation Prize, New York, NY
2015 - 2023 Artist/Designer, Eliot Spaulding Studio Custom Art & Installation, Santa Barbara, CA
2021 - 2022 Designer Assistant, Sarah Walker Design Studio, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 - 2020 Contemporaries Committee Member, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 - 2019 Traveling Display Artist, Anthropologie (URBN Inc.), Philadelphia, PA
2010 - 2019 Display Coordinator, Anthropologie, Santa Barbara, CA
RESIDENCIES
2024 (forthcoming - July) Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture, Sisters, OR
2024 (forthcoming - June) StudioWorks, Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport, ME
2024 Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve, Ojai, CA
AWARDS
2024 Selected Artist, Explore Ecology / Santa Barbara Office of Arts & Culture Grant, Santa Barbara, CA
2022 Juried Scholarship, European Cultural Academy, Venice, IT
2012 Honors in Outstanding Scholastic Achievement, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Art, Orange, CA
2012 Best in Sculpture, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Art, Orange, CA
2012 Artist of the Year, Chapman University Panhellenic Council, Orange, CA
2011 Best Senior Design Show, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Art, Orange, CA
2008 - 2012 Merit Scholarship, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2008 - 2012 Chancellor’s List, Chapman University, Orange, CA
EDUCATION / SPECIAL COURSEWORK
2022 European Cultural Academy, Venice, IT (Contemporary Art course)
Awarded a scholarship to further develop ‘10 Knots’ installation concept through an immersive contemporary art course held amidst the 59th Venice Biennale.
2012 BFA cum laude with Departmental Honors, Graphic Design with 3D Environmental Display Emphasis, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2011 Chapman University & NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, La Cañada Flintridge, CA (The Intersection of Art and Science course)
Selected for 15 student experimental pilot course taught by artist Lia Halloran. Created interdisciplinary work for exhibition informed by meeting with Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, and weekly visits to JPL campus observing astrophysicists, engineers, and scientists at work on special projects.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Sullivan Goss Gallery, 100 GRAND, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, 5 x 5, Montecito, CA
2023 Chris White Gallery, Chapel of Tears, Willmington, DE
2022 Community Arts Workshop, Ready to Hang, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Juried Biannual Departmental Showcase, Orange, CA
2011 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Insomnia: Design That Never Sleeps, Orange, CA
2011 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Juried Biannual Departmental Showcase, Orange, CA
2011 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, LASSO: Art & Science at NASA JPL, Orange, CA
2011 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Juried Biannual Departmental Showcase, Orange, CA
PUBLICATIONS
Robbins, Cara. “Journal: Eliot Spaulding”, Cara Robbins, January 9, 2024.
https://www.cararobbins.com/journal/eliotspaulding
“Visible Mending Workshop with Artist Eliot Spaulding”, MOXI The Wolf Musuem of Exploration + Innovation, November 17, 2023.
https://moxi.org/calendar/visible-mending-workshop/
Anthropologie (author), The Art of Anthropologie, Rizzoli New York 2022, p. 150-151