Sarah C. Blanchette | Co-Founder
Sarah C. Blanchette is a photo-based fiber artist working out of the Detroit area.
Through repetitive acts of hand/machine sewing and physical manipulations of the self portrait, she documents her coming of age in a digital world while embarking on a journey towards growth and autonomy in womanhood.
Since establishing her studio practice in 2015, Blanchette has exhibited nationally and online in galleries, museums, zines, blogs, and artist run spaces. Alongside her practice, Blanchette is the Co-Founder of the artist collective, Critical Stuff.
Blanchette holds a BA in Journalism and Studio Art Photography from Oakland University (‘15) and an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art (‘17). She is a Juried Artist Member of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) and a member of Embrace Creatives. Her studio practice can be found here.
Sonia Litynskyj | Co-Founder
Sonia Litynskyj is an image maker working and living in Romeo, Michigan. Her studio is transcending, and works are often made in collaboration with day to day life. { Art Work } is treated as a materialization of experimental and evolving thought.
For Sonia, the lens, first and foremost, is a psychospiritual tool. A funnel clasped to the entrance of the individual's personal mythos, leaking through the portal as a universal language - the image.
When used subjectively, as it always should be, the image may be approached with speculation and critique. It should form and question reality. It should not be seen as an ultimate nor a final word. The { photograph } especially, should never be held accountable as a reflection of real, but a parallel to what we know of it.
{Taking} a photograph can be violent. Crafting image, as a method of conception, has unique and inevitable consequences. The act of crafting is messy, vulnerable, and cyclical. The image as we experience it through the meta must also be held accountable, recognized as a collective unconscious, through which I find myself often responding to or at the very least attempting to differentiate from.
Sonia holds a BA in Studio Art Photography from Oakland University( '14) and an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art ( '18). She owns and operates Dark Room Oracle, a folk magic studio and art residency.