Upcoming Exhibitions
Spring Intern Exhibition: Overwintering
Opening Reception March 21st, 6-8PM
On view until April 7th
An exhibition of works on, of, and off paper, Overwintering is the culmination of work produced by Studio Intern Gil Dickinson, Nonprofit Management Intern Julia Maisel-Berick, and Assistant Studio Manager Celia Shaheen while living and working at Women’s Studio Workshop. Hailing from far warmer corners of the country–Florida, California, and Texas–these artists took inspiration from steadfast creatures that use practices of “overwintering” such as hibernation and migration to survive cold, icy conditions. Bonding over stoves full of soup, freezing pipes, and shoveling snow, Overwintering is a celebration of trips to the thrift store before dark, of piling under blankets during a movie, of dinners, and making a home together. Through studies and meditations on local wildlife, domestic spaces, collecting, and reliquaries, the three distinct bodies of work in Overwintering hold the stillness and pensiveness of winter alongside the light and energy of a new spring.
Meet the Artists
Gil Dickinson
Gil Dickinson is a printmaker and book artist from Boynton Beach, Florida. Inspired by their interest in ecology and ornithology, their body of work depicts the complex relationships between birds and their habitats. Driven to create work about the environments they’re immersed in, research and observation plays a large role in Gil’s process. They enjoy working in a variety of print mediums, including relief, etching, and lithography. Gil received a BFA in 2023 from Maryland Institute College of Art, where they studied printmaking and book arts. Currently a studio intern at Women’s Studio Workshop, they look forward to continuing their printmaking practice in Baltimore Maryland.
Julia Maisel-Berick
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Julia Maisel-Berick is a multi-media artist currently based in the Hudson Valley. Utilizing paper scraps, paint, fabric and glue, Julia crafts images inspired by medical advertisements, Victorian scrap-book homes, and the communal culture of quilting. Second-hand or repurposed materials often guide her compositions, and she is interested in emphasizing the uncanny nature of the mid-century lifestyle magazines collected from antique malls, neighbors, and street corners over the years. While at WSW, Julia’s work has expanded to include processes in print and papermaking as she finds new ways to piece textiles, found images, text, and paintings together. Grounded in a sense of nostalgia, her work crosses disciplines to evoke both the familiar and the peculiar in domestic settings.
Celia Shaheen
Celia Shaheen (she/her) is an artist and craftsperson from North Texas. In 2020, Celia graduated with a BFA in Studio Art, a BA in Honors Art History, and a museum studies certificate from the University of Texas at Austin. Celia’s studio practice oscillates at the intersection of archiving and making, using materials across the spectrum of textiles, printmaking, papermaking, and metals to investigate the shared language of textiles and storytelling, Lebanese culinary traditions, folklores of the animate and inanimate, and webs of lineage and longing. Currently the Assistant Studio Manager at WSW, Celia was a 2022-24 Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft, a 2021 Textiles Studio Assistant at Peters Valley School of Craft, and has exhibited in Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina.