ARTIST TALKS / LECTURES

2024   Visiting Artist Talk & Open Studio, Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture, Sisters, OR

2024   Visiting Artist Talk & Open Studio, StudioWorks, Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport, ME  

2024   Artist Talk & Group Discussion Facilitator, Out in The Open, Eastport, ME

2024   Guest Speaker/Teaching Artist, Climate & The Arts Youth Workshop, Community Environmental Council, Santa Barbara, CA


TEACHING / WORKSHOPS

2024   Denim Care & Repair Workshop, Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture, Sisters, OR

2023   Visiting Teaching Artist, MOXI The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Santa Barbara, CA

2012 - 2019  Community Craft Workshops, Anthropologie, Santa Barbara, CA


OTHER ARTIST WORK EXPERIENCE

2024 - Currrent   Basketry Production Assistant, Sarah Rosalena, Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide, Santa Barbara, CA

2020 - Current    Artist, Studio ESB Painting & Illustration Studio, Santa Barbara, CA

2023    Selected Application Reviewer, The J.M.K. Innovation Prize, New York, NY

2015 - 2023   Artist/Designer, Eliot Spaulding Studio Custom Art & Installation, Santa Barbara, CA

2021 - 2022   Designer Assistant, Sarah Walker Design Studio, Santa Barbara, CA

2019 - 2020   Contemporaries Committee Member, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

2010 - 2019    Traveling Display Artist, Anthropologie (URBN Inc.), Santa Barbara, CA


RESIDENCIES

2024   Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture, Sisters, OR

2024   StudioWorks, Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport, ME

2024   Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve, Ojai, CA


AWARDS

2024   Selected Artist, Explore Ecology / Santa Barbara Office of Arts & Culture Grant, Santa Barbara, CA

2022   Juried Scholarship, European Cultural Academy, Venice, IT

2012    Honors in Outstanding Scholastic Achievement, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Art, Orange, CA

2012    Best in Sculpture, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Art, Orange, CA

2012    Artist of the Year, Chapman University Panhellenic Council, Orange, CA

2011    Best Senior Design Show, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Art, Orange, CA

2008 - 2012    Merit Scholarship, Chapman University, Orange, CA

2008 - 2012    Chancellor’s List, Chapman University, Orange, CA

 
EDUCATION / SPECIAL COURSEWORK

2022   European Cultural Academy, Venice, IT (Contemporary Art course)
              Awarded a scholarship to further develop ‘10 Knots’ installation concept through an immersive contemporary art course held amidst the 59th Venice Biennale.
             
2012    BFA cum laude with Departmental Honors, Graphic Design with 3D Environmental Display Emphasis, Chapman University, Orange, CA

2011  Chapman University & NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, La Cañada Flintridge, CA (The Intersection of Art and Science course)
              Selected for 15 student experimental pilot course taught by artist Lia Halloran. Created interdisciplinary work for exhibition informed by meeting with Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, and weekly visits to JPL campus observing astrophysicists, engineers, and scientists at work on special projects.


SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve, Bark Index Site Specific Solo Installation w/in Art in Nature Exhibition, Ojai, CA

2023    Sullivan Goss Gallery, 100 GRAND, Santa Barbara, CA

2023    Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, 5 x 5, Montecito, CA

2023    Chris White Gallery, Chapel of Tears, Willmington, DE

2022   Community Arts Workshop, Ready to Hang, Santa Barbara, CA

2012    Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Juried Biannual Departmental Showcase, Orange, CA

2011    Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University,  Insomnia: Design That Never Sleeps, Orange, CA

2011    Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Juried Biannual Departmental Showcase, Orange, CA

2011    Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, LASSO: Art & Science at NASA JPL, Orange, CA

2011    Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Juried Biannual Departmental Showcase, Orange, CA


PUBLICATIONS

“Eliot Spaulding: Artistic Interpretations of Human Involvement in Vulnerable Ecosystems”, The Roundhouse Foundation, June 26, 2024
https://roundhousefoundation.org/pine-meadow-ranch/eliot-spaulding-artistic-interpretations-of-human-involvement-in-vulnerable-ecosystems/

Krysa, Danielle, “Art Delivery from The Jealous Curator”, Substack,  June 22, 2024
https://thejealouscurator.substack.com/p/art-delivery-062223-f36

“Denim Care and Repair Workshop”, The Roundhouse Foundation, May 13, 2024
https://roundhousefoundation.org/pine-meadow-ranch/pine-meadow-ranch-events/denim-care-and-repair-workshop/

Explore Ecology, “City of Santa Barbara Awards Grant For New Art From Scrap Signage”, January 29, 2024
https://www.edhat.com/business_news/city-of-santa-barbara-awards-grant-for-new-art-from-scrap-signage/

Rivera Amin, Lakshmi, “A View From the Easel”, Hyperallergic, February 15, 2024
https://hyperallergic.com/872135/a-view-from-the-easel-223/?utm_source=mutualart&utm_medium=referral  

Robbins, Cara, “Journal: Eliot Spaulding”, Cara Robbins, January 9, 2024.
https://www.cararobbins.com/journal/eliotspaulding

“Visible Mending Workshop with Artist Eliot Spaulding”, MOXI The Wolf Musuem of Exploration + Innovation, November 17, 2023.
https://moxi.org/calendar/visible-mending-workshop/

Anthropologie (author), The Art of Anthropologie, Rizzoli New York 2022, p. 150-151