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About Savannah, the artist, illustrator, zine-folder, comic-book lover, mentor, teacher, papermaker, printmaker, designer, and community curator...
Biography
Savannah Flores (she/they) is a working emerging artist who recently graduated from Cornell University in 2025 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a minor in Design Innovation & Strategy and is currently based in Dallas, Texas. She has held multiple roles in community-centered public art projects, including serving as a studio assistant and production manager for established artists at Cornell University’s Printmaking Facilities. She has garnered national and regional recognition in the fine arts and publication, having been featured in the Ithaca Book and Zine Fair and Printed Matter, and as a finalist in the New York Academy of Art’s 2024 AXA Prize. Currently, Savannah is the Fall Events Intern at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. She will also be the Printmaking Fellow at Vermont Studio Center for January 2026.
Artist Statement
Savannah uses the body as a metaphor for intergenerational trauma in first-generation minority households through processes of printmaking and papermaking. Her visceral layering of handmade paper, silhouettes, and archival images expresses the enduring impact of settler colonialism and assimilation on the individual and the collective. To disrupt these colonial structures, Savannah represents bodies in migration, speaking to and colliding with colorful, abstract worlds that encompass a hereditary past/present space. Her work highlights the rawness of disrupted mother-child relationships resulting from these structures. Her work is a homage to mothers and grandmothers who attempt to heal their wounds through their daughters' experiences, often mirroring the same pain they've experienced. Savannah’s work aims to demonstrate that colonial structures and assimilation continue to impact millions of families today.

More About My Cornell University (2021-2025) Accomplishments

Savannah has demonstrated exceptional artistic merit throughout her academic and early professional career, earning multiple prestigious awards and fellowships in recognition of her talent, dedication, and academic excellence. During her undergraduate studies, she received the Kip Brady Prize in Printmaking for three consecutive years (2023–2025), an honor awarded annually to an outstanding undergraduate printmaker. Her innovative approach to digital art also earned her the Ezra Colin Cornell Digital Media Award in 2023, which included a $3,000 stipend to support independent digital media projects. From 2023 to 2025, Savannah received consecutive Creative Research Grants, enabling the development of conceptually rigorous and technically advanced work.
In her final year, she was awarded the Anderson Ranch Senior Scholarship, which funded a competitive, week-long workshop experience in advanced printmaking, offered to only one graduating senior each year. She also earned the Faculty Medal of Art, a distinction awarded to only three graduating seniors across the department who demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, and a cohesive, research-driven thesis body of work.
Savannah's Arrowmont Fall Event Internship Blog-Post
Curriculum Vitae (Fall 2025)
Contact: savannahcharlie0825@gmail.com
Phone: 469-403-4152
Website: savannahcflores.art

Education 
2025          B.F.A, Fine Art 
                             Cornell University 
                             College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

Professional Experience 

2026                 Vermont Studio Center, Printmaking Fellow, Johnson, VT
2025                  Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Fall Events Internship, Gatlinburg, TN
2023-25            Lead Printmaking Monitor, Intaglio Expertise, Cornell University 
2024                  Cornell AAP Career Development Advisor, Ithaca, NY
2024                  Studio Assistant, Paul Ramirez Jonas,
                                       La Pulperia Press, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 
2023-2024       Teaching Assistant, Cornell University 
                                      (Advanced Print Media: To Publish is to Make Publics, SP24) Ithaca, NY 
2023                  Children’s Art and Design Intern, Simon & Schuster Publication, New York, NY

Teaching Opportunities 

2026        Papermaking and Personal Her-Story: Pulp Painting and Inclusion Workshop 
                              Ursuline Academy of Dallas, Dallas, TX 
2025          Water-Based Monoprint & Collaborative Printmaking Collage  
                              Ursuline Academy of Dallas, Dallas, TX 

Selected Awards and Recognition 
2025 Cornell Department of AAP, Faculty Medal of Art 
2025                         Cornell Department of Art, Anderson Ranch Printmaking Scholarship 
2024                        AXA Art Prize US, Finalist, New York Academy of Art
2023- 2025            Kip Brady Prize Recipient for Outstanding Student Contribution in Printmaking    
2023 & 2024         Creative Research Grant, Cornell University 
2023                        Ezra Colin Cornell Award in Digital Media

Exhibitions 
2025             Two-Person Exhibition to woo, to wane, to bind, to bear, Ithaca, NY
2024            Group Exhibition, Homeward, Ithaca, NY
2024            Group Exhibition, I See You, The Ink Shop, and Olive Branch Press Show, Ithaca, NY
2024            Group Exhibition, Cornell Council for the Arts Exhibition
                           Dewey Decimal System, Ithaca, NY                                                                     
2024                      Group Exhibition, AXA Art Prize US 2024 Juried Exhibition 
                           New York Academy of Art, New York City, NY
2023            Curator/Group Exhibitor for I See You, The Ink Shop , and Olive Branch Press Show, 
                           Print Media, Ithaca, NY                                                                                                                       
2023            Group Exhibition, Material Spirituality, Ithaca, NY                                                                 
2023            Group Exhibition, Familia Printshop: Member Exhibition, Dallas, TX                                                               
2023            Solo Exhibition, Salt: Reconnecting and Disconnecting, Solo Exhibition, Ithaca, NY                                      
2023            Group Exhibition, THEN X NOW, An Alumni Show, Ithaca, NY         
2022            Group Exhibition, Advanced Print Media: Social Works, Ithaca, NY                                       
                                                                    
Publications & Facilitated Art Fairs
 
2024                      Showpony Studios, Facilitated Community Print Sale & Vendor Fair, Ithaca, NY 
2024                      Labels, La Pulperia Press, Production Manager for Paul Ramirez Jonas 
2023 & 2024        Multiple Paper Feed: An Alternative Art Fair, Ithaca, NY
2023 & 2024         Ithaca Book and Zine Fair, Vendor, Ithaca, NY        
2021-2022             Positive Words for Painful Times: Triumph Through Divorce, Illustrator   
2021-2022            Brielle and the Burbs: Hair I Come, Illustrator 

Workshops

2024             Lithography: Stone & Photolithography,
                              Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI   
2024             Oil and Water: Collagraph, Stencils & Monoprint with Sue Oehme, 
                               Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO 
2024             SGCI (Southern Graphics Council International) Various Workshops Participant, 
                              Providence, RI 
2023             Pace Prints Monotype Workshop by Sarah Carpenter, Ithaca, NY 
            


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