AAD welcomes Jacob Hammes. This spring, Professor Hammes will be teaching ART 013 Sculpture I. Jacob C. Hammes is an interdisciplinary artist, arts organizer, and educator based in Philadelphia. Working primarily in sculpture, drawing, and sound, Hammes explores themes of late capitalist anxieties and how we constitute ourselves as individuals within a backdrop of time/labor precarity. He has exhibited locally and internationally including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Liberty Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University, Temple Contemporary, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2016, Hammes received the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Fellowship in Sculpture for his proposal to build the space that would become Pilot + Projects, an artist-run exhibition space in Kensington of which he is a founder, curator, and co-director. The space has held over three dozen exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and performances of local and international artists. Recently, Hammes has moved into comedy and joke writing. He is the author of 101 Jokes About the Working Class (2020), and “Grand Ballroom of Doom,” a biweekly comic strip depicting the brutality of late-stage capitalism as absurdist comedy, published by Artblog. In 2021, he was awarded funding from the Knight Foundation to produce “Uprising and Aftermath,” a long-form radio piece featuring interviews with activists who were victims of police violence during recent social justice protests in Philadelphia. The work will be broadcast on WPEB FM in the summer of 2022. Hammes also teaches at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, University of the Arts, and Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Hammes received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. #welcome #lehighuniversity #lehighaad #art #architecture #design #sculpture #studio #threedimensionaldesign (at Lehigh University Art, Architecture and Design) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbdKlOWuAaC/?utm_medium=tumblr
