Printmaker Cayla Skillin-Brauchle is interested in the personal and collective landscapes we construct over time: How do we create them? How do they, in turn, define us? Class Kingdom Phylum, her first show in Burlington, Vt., was inspired by organizational techniques, scientific categorization, and family traditions.
Cayla explores patterning and organization through images of everyday objects and personal collections, using screen and woodblock prints to illustrate individual rituals and community habits. Given her focus on printmaking, being an artist-in-residence at JDK—with its renowned screen-printing studio, the Iskra Print Collective—was a natural fit. The work in her show, which opened May 8 and ran until June 5, was produced during her seven months at JDK, as well during a recent residency at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, Vt.).
Cayla will be pursuing an M.F.A. in printmaking at Ohio University this fall.
