Braden Named Inaugural Media Artist in Residence

The Sam Fox School presents a new Media Artist Residency, which will allow one selected student artist or artist pair each semester to spend 10 days in the School’s Media Studio creating a time-based project. Led by associate professor of art Monika Weiss, the program will include a public opening midway through each residency period.

Sound artist Alex Braden, a candidate in the MFA in Visual Art program, will serve as the inaugural Media Artist in Residence November 5-15. A public reception for his work will take place at 5p November 10 in the Media Studio, on the lower level of Weil Hall.

In February 2022 the Media Artist Residency will feature a 10-day collaboration between BFA in Studio Art seniors Betsy Ellison and Lena Cramer.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Alex Braden grew up studying and teaching jazz guitar and classical piano, eventually abandoning a music scholarship to pursue a BFA in Sound Art. Later, in between producing, recording, and touring with a handful of bands, he further developed his fine art practice: experimenting with interactive and immersive sound in studio and on fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, VisArts, Rocklands Seattle, and Halcyon Arts Lab. Alex’s work has been featured in Hyperallergic, the Washington Post, SPIN, Noisey, and NPR. He has lectured at the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art and Montgomery College. After spending nearly two decades in Washington, DC, he now resides in St. Louis, Missouri.