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Charisse is excited to be the Visiting Assistant Professor of Drawing at Oberlin College for the 2022-23 academic year, where she will teach figure drawing and painting. She was also selected to be part of the fall cohort of Zygote Press’s BIPOC residency where she will be learning new printmaking techniques.
Word of Mouth
Charisse currently has her miniature sculpture “Worth her Salt” included in Woman Made Gallery’s group exhibition Word of Mouth in Chicago, IL!
Featuring the artwork of 30 women and non-binary artists exploring food through an intersectional feminist lens. The exhibiting artists have subverted socially conditioned, gendered conceptions of an ingredient, a kitchen, a worm, or even a plate.
The show will be up until February 12, 2022. See it online here.
Artist in Residence
During her October 2018 residency with Akron Soul Train, Charisse will explore the evolution & complexities of soul food. She will replicate a 1:12 scale series of mixed media sculptures based on food memories. Charisse aims to draw out meaning in what we eat, illustrate how food habits change for everyone, and consider soul food’s place in the greater American food discourse.
New work by Charisse Harris included in the Ohio Art League's 2018 Spring Juried Show at Griffin Gallery at Creekside in Gahanna, OH. Exhibition will be up until May 11th. Go see it!
She Creates Columbus (SCC) is a pilot program of Wild Goose Creative to bring mentorship and career development to the next generation of creative women leaders in Columbus. Charisse was selected to participate in this six month program during the spring & summer of 2018.
ArtsOhio Blog Feature
"Connected Through the Human Experience", interview by Kim Webb. The artwork featured in Come Along With Me is dense and embedded with stories, layered from experiences. I interviewed three artists to find out more about what lies within their work.
Columbus Dispatch
Before he curated “Come Along With Me,” an Ohio State University classics professor asked contemporary Ohio artists to think about something that ancient philosophers addressed in early writings: how to live the good life.
The resulting paintings, sculptures, photographs and mixed-media works by 18 members of the Ohio Art League subtly — or not so subtly — offer life lessons.
Boston Mills Artfest
People lined up an hour before the gates opened for the opening night party for the 44th annual Boston Mills Artfest.
Director George Whitten said the juried art show featured artists from 37 states and one from Canada.