Bryn Du's Artist in Residence Program

Please join us in celebrating Artist Calder Kamin! Throughout the winter, Kamin shared her artistic talents and passion for creating beauty from everything around us. She led the "Nature Never Wastes" workshops and artist professional development classes during her residency.

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More About Calder

Artist, educator, and advocate Calder Kamin transforms trash into beautifully crafted creatures, inspiring others to be creative and courageous about the future. Nature’s endless ability to reuse and adapt motivates her to eliminate waste and reimagine it as art.

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Kamin's creative reuse art projects and public workshops have traveled to museums across the country, including The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The American Museum of Natural History, The Contemporary Austin, The i.d.e.a. Museum, and The Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Plastic Planet, her 2016 solo exhibition at Women & Their Work, was supported by a Mid-America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovations Grant and was featured in an episode of the PBS series Arts In Context. She was the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art Truck Artist, the first AIR at the Beach Museum of Art, and Artist-in-Residence at Breck Create, Landmark Apartments, and the DoSeum, San Antonio’s Children’s Museum. Her work at the DoSeum earned her second Mid-America Artistic Innovations Grant for the culminating exhibition. From 2020-2023, Calder served as a board member of Austin Creative Reuse, a nonprofit that diverts community waste to artists, crafters, and educators. She supports reuse centers wherever she travels.

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Her recent exhibitions include Ivester Contemporary, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Presa House Gallery, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Webster University, The Breckenridge International Festival of the Arts, and The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation. The City of Austin commissioned Calder's first permanent public art project for Mary Moore Searight Park. In 2023, she appeared in the Craft in America episode PLAY on PBS and opened her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at the Craft in America Center.

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She was a 2023 Resident Artist at SiNaCa Glass Studios, the Currier Museum of Art, and Camp Stomping Ground. Calder holds a double Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute.

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Text provided by calderkamin.com