Founders Artist Residency
Isys Hennigar (2026)
About the Founders Artist Residency
Inspired by OCAF’s 5 founders and their deep commitment to the arts, the Founders Artist Residency provides a practicing artist with four weeks of shared studio space and a $1,000 stipend. Depending on their areas of expertise, and professional ambitions, Artists may be invited to weigh in on infrastructure projects or other programmatic areas within the organization. Artists will have an opportunity to exhibit work at OCAF, and offer an artist talk and free workshop to our members. Applications will open each January. Residents will be selected by OCAF staff, patron members, and our exhibitions committee.
About the Artist
Isys Hennigar is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in ceramics, wood, and metal. Her work invokes real and reimagined ecological encounters, exploring the ways in which landscape and the natural world are interpreted, reconstructed, and mythologized. Isys received her MFA from the University of Georgia and her BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA), La Fondation Bernardaud (Limoges, France), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Sow & Tailor Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Lump Gallery (Raleigh, NC), and the North Carolina Museum of Art. She is the 2024 recipient of the South Arts State Fellowship for North Carolina and the 2025 recipient of the Brightwork Fellowship. She currently teaches at the University of Georgia
