(she/hers)
https://www.instagram.com/willucastings/
Education
2019 M.F.A, Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Fine Art, Boston, MA
2015 B.F.A, University of Georgia, Fine Art & Scientific Illustration, Athens, GA
2011 CalArts, Fine Art, Valencia, CA
Grants, Fellowships, Awards
2023 Juror for the Visual Art Fellowship, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, AL
Artist-in-Residence, JX Farms, Cleveland, MS
2022-2023 Project Grant, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, AL
Project Grant, Verdant Fund, Warhol Foundation’s Regional Re-granting Program, Mobile, AL
2022 Artist-in-Residence, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Assets for Artists Program, North Adams, MA
Gee’s Bend Quilting Artist Retreat, Alabama Folk School, Nauvoo, AL
2021 ArtBox Teach Artist Mentor, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL (Socially Engaged Art Project)
2020 Relief Grant, Verdant Fund, Warhol Foundation’s Regional Re-granting Program, Mobile, AL
Craft Community Relief Fund Grant, CERF+The Artists Safety Net, Montpelier, VT
Relief Fund Grant, Mass Cultural Council, Boston, MA
City of Boston Artist Relief Fund Grant, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, Boston, MA
2019-2020 Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA
Environmental Research Fellowship, Research in New Orleans, LA, on Environmental Racism, Tufts University, Tufts University’s
Institute of the Environment, Medford, MA
2019 Dean’s Research Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Office of the Dean, Boston, MA
Graduate Travel Support Program Grant, Research in Accra and Elmina, Ghana on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade,
Tufts University, Office of the Provost, Medford, MA
Montague Travel Grant, Research in Accra and Elmina, Ghana on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade,
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Masters Program, Boston, MA
2018 Graduate Student Research Competition Grant, Research in New Orleans, LA, and Mobile, AL on Enslavement within the US, Tufts University,
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Medford, MA
Social Justice Fund Grant, Research in Selma, Montgomery, Demopolis, and Huntsville, AL on Enslavement in the US,
Tufts University, Tufts Progressive Alumni Association, Medford, MA
Selected Experience
2023 Teaching Assistant, Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, ME (Henry Horenstein - Hidden Maine: Everything by Lobster Traps : Photography Workshop)
Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA (Time: Intro to Time-based Methods)
2021 - 2023 Part-Time Instructor, Lesley University, College of Art & Design, Cambridge, MA (Women, Gender, and Race in Animation &
History of Animation)
2020 - 2022 Part-Time Instructor, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Huntsville, AL (Drawing 1, Drawing 2, and 3D Foundations)
Instructor, Tufts University, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Medford, MA (Racializing Visual Culture: Movies to Monuments)
2019 - 2020 Post Graduate Teaching Fellow, Tufts University, School Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (BFA Senior Thesis Program)
2017- 2019 Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA (Painting as a 3D 4D Object, Socially Engaged Art,
Intro to Digital Photography, Recycled Reconfigured Reimagined, Animation Integration)
Art Walk Program Coordinator and Gallery Associate, Islesford Dock Restaurant and Gallery, Islesford, Little Cranberry, ME
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Debut, Lowe Mill Arts Center, Huntsville, AL (solo)
Southern Galactic: Celebrating Sun Ra, Public Artwork made in collaboration with Jahni Moore, funding from the Verdant Fund, Alabama State Council on the Arts, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and logistical support from United Women of Color, Huntsville Revisited Museum, Straight to Ale, and the North Huntsville Public Library, Huntsville, AL
2022 B22: Wiregrass Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
Use Your Outside Voice., University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL (solo)
Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Smithsonian Affiliate, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center (juried by Scott Andresen)
Beyond Words, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA (juried by Gabriel Sosa)
Shelter, Alabama Women's Caucus for Art, Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment Center, Huntsville, AL (juried by ALWCA) (catalog)
What’s Next? I : An Intimate Reflection, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA
2021 (Re)Sisters, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA (curated by Pamela Bower-Basso & Caitlin Doering)
2020 Fact vs. Fiction, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA (juried by Samuel Adams)
Faculty Exhibition, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
Inaugural Juried Online SMFA Art Sale, Tufts University Art Galleries, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
(juried by Shinique Smith, Akili Tommasino, and Nina Johnson)
80/20, Alabama Women's Caucus for Art, Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment Center, Huntsville, AL (juried by ALWCA) (catalog)
Rituals of Resistance, Nasty Women Connecticut, New Haven, CT (curated by Luciana McClure)
Touchy Feely, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
Unfinished Business - The Complicated History of Voting Rights in America, Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Boston, MA (sponsored by Violence Transformed)
Without Extinction is Liberty: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, Durbin Gallery, Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL (curated by Lindsey O’Connor)
Fresh Faces, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
The Art of Hope, Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS (juried by John Sabraw)
2019 Fusion | Anniversary Show, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA (curated by Nick Capasso)
No Time for Laundry | Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Tufts University Art Galleries, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Medford, MA (catalog)
2018 Sporty Politics - SMFA Radio Broadcast, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2018 CMCA Biennial Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME (juried by Kate Green and Robin Williams) (catalog)
32 Webster Court, The Newton House Project, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Newton, MA
Exchange, Curatorial Practice: SMFA Students At Work, Mission Hill and Slater Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Tufts University, Boston, Medford, MA (catalog)
Strength in Numbers, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA (curated by Katie Lee-Mansfield)
27th Annual Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL (catalog)
Translation, Tower Gallery, Tisch Library, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2017 Gender Gala, Conference on Gender and International Affairs, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Tamper Cafe, Medford, MA
Truth, Post Truth, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA
Wall to Wall Two: Working Together, Nave Gallery, Boston, MA (catalog)
Introducing Roc Caivano, Tamara Gonda, Willoughby Hastings, Ed Hawkes, and Sharon Whitham, Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
The Red Clay Survey: Regional Juried Show, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL (juried by Gerry Bergstein, co-curated by Peter Baldaia and David Reyes) (catalog)
2015 Symbiosis: the Unity of Art and Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
24th Annual Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL (catalog)
22nd Annual Scientific & Medical Illustration Exhibition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2014 21st Annual Scientific & Medical Illustration Exhibition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2012 100 PERCENT 2, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Fuzzy Pictures, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA