Tana Hargest makes art incorporating interdisciplinary uses of interactive media, performance, film/video, and installation work. Hargest has exhibited at venues including: Mass MoCA; Walker Art Center; MIT’s List Visual Art Center; and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Hargest received a 2004 Franklin Furnace Future of the Present Grant; a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship; a 2002 Jerome Foundation Media Arts Grant; a 2002 New York State Council of the Arts Individual Artist Grant; and a 2002 Creative Capital Grant. She’s also been in residence at MacDowell, Gaea Sea Change Residency; and Smack Mellon Studio Program. Hargest received a B.F.A. from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. From high-profile museums to community-based artists, Hargest advises stakeholders on change management, engages cross-disciplinary teams in emergent strategy and ideation, and implements projects to help grow mission-based programs, increase impact, and improve results.
Tana Hargest
Studios
Mixter
Tana Hargest worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…