October 10, 2024
TILT Artist Lab
The AIR Program Open Studio is the public’s opportunity to meet TILT’s artists-in-residence and learn more about their artistic practices. Stop by our Artist Lab to meet Will Harris, who is in residency at TILT during the month of October. Harris is a Philadelphia based artist currently working on a project that chronicles his grandmother’s experience with dementia through photography and soundscapes to encapsulate the erosion of memory. He published an award winning book about the subject called You can call me Nana.
Artist Biography
Will Harris (he/him) is a multimedia artist whose work deals with memory, history, identity, time, and place. In 2019 he was a finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass and was awarded their MFA Student Scholarship. Harris has exhibited in the USA, India, and Denmark, and in 2015 he had a residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland. In early 2020 he received a Black Creative Endeavors Grant, awarded by Something Special Studios in New York. His first book, You can call me Nana, was a finalist in the 2021 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards and shortlisted for a Lucie Foundation Photobook Award. It is held in private and public collections worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art (NY), the George Eastman Museum Library (NY), the Central University for Art History (Munich) and the Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection at San Telmo Museum (Spain).