Current Residents

Kaila Guilmet (b. 1991 Concord, MA) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Athens, OH. Guilmet earned a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2013. Previous residencies include: galeria perdida (Chilchota, Michoacán MX), Recess Session (New York, NY), and Ace Hotel (New York, NY). Before becoming a resident at CAC, Guilmet was the recipient of The Studio Potters' Grant for Apprenticeship.

"My practice is in a place of research and experimentation. I find myself interested in systems, and the emergent properties that arise from those systems. We use systems in a myriad of ways: to categorize, to make meaning, to institutionalize, to play.

My current body of work uses the system of hyperbolic geometry to create linked looped hyperbolic forms. I have found resonance in clay as a material for these investigations. It is a material that vibrates with combinatorial possibility. With these sculptural forms, I have begun to investigate what occurs at the edges of established systems, where order becomes porous, and meaning arises that cannot be so easily understood through conventional frameworks."