about

Carmen Jimenez is a sustainable object maker. Her work is for all who live on this earth.  She rescues materials that are being disposed of and hand crafts new wares for her neighbors. Carmen hopes these oddments will be loved by the modern human user, and the future generations of life to inherit them. Growing up on a barrier island in New Jersey, Carmen sees how drastically the landscape changes and chooses to welcome the not-so-distant future when the hermit crabs and dogfish inherit her things.

Clay is Carmen’s first love, and she remains conscious of the permanence of fired ceramic. Local clay is utilized between layers of melted LDPE plastic, slumped glass bottles, and newspaper pulp. Scrappy but intentional, her work asks the user to deeply reconsider their consumption and their relationship with the planet.

Please touch, use, and love these objects.

curriculum vitae

CARMEN JIMENEZ

06.02.1999

carmenmakesthings@gmail.com

ig: @carmenmakesthings

 

Education

2022  

BFA, magna cum laude, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Minor Ceramics, Sustainability + Social Practice, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD

2020  

Osaka Gakuin University, Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan (Japanese language courses)

2017

Marine Academy of Science and Technology, Highlands, NJ

 

Residencies

2021

Carpentry Apprenticeship, Monstera Acre, Dowelltown TN

2020

Restoration Artist Residency, Yellow Bird Artscape, Woodberry TN

 

Solo Exhibitions and Events

2022

Conscious Oddments, Gateway Gallery Baltimore MD

2020

Artist Talk, Cumberland University, Cumberland TN

 

Group Exhibitions and Events

2022

MICA Art Walk 2022, Gateway Gallery, Baltimore MD

Something Long, Preposterous, and Somewhat Cumbersome, Fox 3 Gallery, Baltimore MD

2021

Halloween Indoor Market, Philadelphia PA

Medusa’s Market, Philadelphia PA

Phoenix Festival, A New View Camden, Camden NJ

2020

Art Night 2020, Echo Lake, Fayette ME 

2019

Earth Echoes, Gateway Gallery, Baltimore MD

Art Market Student Vendor, Brown Center, Baltimore, MD

Sign Language: Breaking Down Behavior, Brown Center, Baltimore MD

Brigantine Art Walk, The Sea Wall, Brigantine NJ

2018

MICA Juried Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore MD

Fiber Art Exhibition Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore MD

Brigantine Art Walk, The Sea Wall, Brigantine NJ

 

Experience

2022

Ceramic Production Assistant, [recycling clay, rolling slabs, relief printing, customer relationships] Beatriz Marti Ceramics, Guaynabo PR

Ceramic Production Assistant [hand produce mugs from start to finish] CONLOQUE, Cupey PR

Flower Show Salesperson [sold heirloom seeds, art, gardening tools] Hudson Seed Company, Philadelphia PA

2021

Artist Apprentice [construction, landscaping, earthen plastering, mural painting] A New View Camden, Camden NJ

Production Assistant and Retail Worker [customer relationships, shipping and receiving, managed financial transactions] Ceramic Concept, Philadelphia PA

Pottery Assistant [glaze mixing, wheel throwing, hand building, maintaining firing schedules] Susan Demay Pottery, Smithville, TN

Carpentry Apprentice [built a porch, chicken coop, door frames, floors, planters] Monstera Acre, Dowelltown TN

Flower Show Salesperson [sold heirloom seeds, art, gardening tools] Hudson Seed Company, Philadelphia PA

2020

Organic Farm Worker World Wide Opportunites on Organic Farms, [landscape designer, grounds keeper, and gardener]

Pottery Instructor, [firing kiln, recycling clay, mixing glazes, sanitizing tools, teaching children] Camp Winnebago, Fayette, ME

The Noyes Arts Garage Intern, [Conducted interviews, created social media content, designed at-home virtual art lessons] The Arts Garage, Atlantic City, NJ

 

Awards

2020

Public Health Associate in Camping, 

Merit Achievement Award

2017-2021

MICA Dean’s List

MICA Creative Vision Award

MICA DaVinci Award

2016

Cleveland Institute of Art Pre-College Scholarship

 

Publications

2020

Noyes Museum of Art, Recycled Plastic Charms Art Project, Hammonton NJ

Noyes Museum of Art, Macramé Wall Art Project, Hammonton NJ

Stockton University, Recycled Plastic Charms Art Project, Atlantic City NJ

Stockton University, Macramé Wall Art Project, Atlantic City NJ