Artist Residencies for any level
Meet our current
Dirtbag Artist in Residence
Clarke Hamilton
Clarke Hamilton is a Black visual artist and ceramicist from and based in Milwaukee, WI. Clarke reflects on her roots and research, archiving through creating visual narratives.
In 2026, she completed her B.A. in Studio Arts with a minor in Art History at the College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University. She was the Program Scholar and received the Sister Regina Buchholz, S.C.R.H. Award for excellence in art and service. Her ceramic work was featured in Young Contemporaries 2026: 42nd Annual Juried Student Exhibition at the Laband Art Gallery, and published in the 13th edition of LMU’s Interdisciplinary Journal Attic Salt.
“My creative practice is grounded in contextualizing a personal and collective memories of the Black identity and experiences through visual narratives of the personal and historical. Reflection upon my culture, heritage, and research of Black history + Blackness inform my visual interpretations. With clay, I seek to mold an archive amplifying visibility and preserving voice of Black peoples’ existences + experiences.”
