Mia Brown-Seguin is a sculptor and papermaker based in Virginia. She is inspired by human relationships with the environment, working from observations of life cycles, identity, and memory. Brown-Seguin considers her intimate connection with place, as well as the socio-political context of the female body within the landscape. In her practice, she uses traditional methods of craft with sculptural applications. By incorporating natural materials and found objects, she challenges scientific documentation and redefines the archival preconceptions of the art object.
Brown-Seguin is currently in Longwood University’s Working Artist program, concentrating in Papermaking. She is a member of the North American Hand Papermakers (NAHP) and The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA). She has received scholarship awards to attend The Paper and Book Intensive, Wells College Book Arts Center Summer Institute, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Penland School of Craft. In the previous years, she attended the Montemero Art Residency and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Italy, Spain, NY, MA, IL, and CO.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
current Longwood University Working Artist Program
2024 Cornell University Bachelor’s in Fine Arts 4.032 GPA
2022 Cornell in Rome
2019 MassArt Summer Intensive
2018 Stonehill College Project Contemporary Competitiveness
Residencies
2024 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence, Woodstock, NY
2023 Montemero Art Residency, Pulpi, Spain
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2024 HOMEWRECKER!!!, with Alexa Kanarowski, Show Pony Studio, Ithaca, NY
2023 Orb Weaver, Olive Tjaden Gallery & Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2023 Dirt Purchase, with Oliver Stern, Hartsel, CO
2022 A Place in Time, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions and Installations
2025 (upcoming) Annual Artist in Residence Exhibition, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2025 (upcoming) Working Artist Exhibition, The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA
2024 ULISES: ASSEMBLY, SMFA at Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA
2024 DIRECTIONS TO ABYSS, John Hartell Family Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2024 In Small Things Dorgotten, Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY
2023 THEN X NOW, Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2023 Cradle to Cocoon , Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2023 BAD BAD GOOD BAD GOOD GOOD BAD GOOD, Olive Tjaden Hall, Ithaca, NY
2023 County Fair, Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, NY
2023 PERIPHERY, Sacred Root Kava Bar, Ithaca, NY
2022 Pulp Fiction, Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2022 Figure in the Landscape, Sargent House Museum, Gloucester, MA
2022 Embodied Place, Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY
2022 Uncommon Prints X Common Matricies, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Life as Clouds, String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY
2022 Bound Books Unbound, Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Curatorial Work
2024 Dewey Decimal System Exhibition, John Hartel Family Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2024 THRIVANCE Exhibition, Herbert F Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY
2024 AMMO (Art Majors and Minors Organization) Exhibitions and Publications
Scholarships
2024 New Altitudes North American Hand Papermakers Conference Scholarship and Travel Stipend
2024 Fellowship at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
2024 Studio Assistanship at Penland School of Craft, Baskerville, NC
2024 Faculty Medal of Art at Cornell University
2024 Nell Meldahl Work-Study Scholarship for the Paper & Book Intensive at Ox-Bow
2024 Creative Research Grant of $500
2023 Cornell Council for the Arts Individual Grant of $1,000
2023 The Edith Stone and Walter King Memorial Prize
2022 Well’s College Book Arts Summer Institute Full Scholarship
2022 David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts
Attended Workshops
2024 Cast Paper Sculpture with Lee Emma Running at Penland School of Craft
2024 Landscapes of Handmade Paper with Jillian Sico at the Paper and Book Intensive
2024 Endbands! With Anna Embree at PBI held at OxBow
2024 Ground Up:Using Natural Pigments & “Found Color” in Pulp Painting with Hannah O’Hare Bennett
2022 Western Papermaking with Tom Balbo at Well’s College Book Arts Summer Institute
Facilitated Workshops
2024 Handmade Paper Workshop at the Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY
2024 Book Binding Public Studio and Wellness Workshop at the Herbert F Johnson Museum
2023 Handmade Paper for National Archeology Day Herbert F Johnson Museum Family Day
2022 Handmade Paper with Roberto Mannino, Temple University Rome