RILEY COX
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RESEARCH
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ABOUT
Rileycox000@gmail.com
BFA Fibers, Summa Cum Laude
(2023)
RESIDENCIES,
RESEARCH GRANTS,
Salem Art Works, NY
(2024)
Fabricademy, WAAG Futurelab, Amsterdam, NL
(2023-2024)
Windgate Lamar Fellow
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
(2023-2024)
SCIART, Researcher
UMBC, Baltimore, MD
(2023)
Mother Nacre, Research Team
Biodesign Winning Team
MOMA, Newyork, NY
(2023)
Hopkins Extreme Material Institute
Schulman Labs, Artist in Residence
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
(2022)
AWARDS
(2023)
BioDesign Challenge winning team - Mother Nacre
(2023)
SCIART research internship
(2023)
HEMI Summer Project Grant
(2022)
Lenore G. Tawney Foundation Scholarship
(2023)
Kuhlman Fiber Arts Scholarship (2021-2023)
Louise N. Myerberg Family Scholarship Academic Honors Scholarship
(2018 - 2023)
Creative Visions Award
(2018 - 2023)
Presidential Scholarship
(2018-2023)
R. Jenkins Bristor FA Fund
(2018 - 2023)
Arnell Lewis Land Art Scholarship (2018 - 2023)
Thalheimer Endowed Scholarship
(2018 - 2023)
MICA Grant
(2018)
Academic Scholarship MICA
(2018 - 2023)
Thalheimer Endowed Scholarship
(2018 - 2023)
Oxbow Artist FunForLife Program - Metal casting
(2018)
Penland School of Craft, Kenan Fellowship - Glass blowing
(2018)
Clive Davis Gallery, NY
(2025)
Kite Show -
Rockaway Beach, NY
(2024)
Artist in Residence Exhibition -
Salem Art Works, Salem NY
(2024)
If Birds Could Fly -
Mount Royal Station, Baltimore, MD
(2024)
Academy Final Exhibition -
WAAG Futurelab, Amsterdam, NL
(2024)
Biodesign Final Presentation -
MoMA, New York, NY
(2023)
Perennials -
Mount Royal Station,
Baltimore, MD
(2023)
Woven Pixel -
Middendorf Gallery,
Baltimore, MD
(2023)
Invention of an Ecosystem -
Gateway Gallery, Baltimore, MD
(2023)
Something Big -
Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD
(2022)
We Are Everywhere -
Fox 2 Gallery, Baltimore, MD
(2022)
Hopkins Extreme Material Institute - Malone Hall, Baltimore, MD
(2022)
Montgomery -
Montgomery Park,Baltimore, MD
(2021)
Sentiments -
Main O Gallery, Baltimore, MD
(2020)
MICA, Baltimore, MD
(2025 - Current)
Part Time Associate
3D Design Department
CCBC Essex + Catonsville, MD
(2024 - Current)
Studio Assistant
Annet Couwenberg, Baltimore, MD
(2025 - Current)
Studio Assistant
Liz Ensz, Baltimore, MD
(2024)
3D Printing Teacher
Openworks, Baltimore, MD
(2024 - Current)
Digital Fabrication Technician,
MICA, Baltimore, MD
(2022 - 2023)
EHS Studio Monitor,
MICA, Baltimore, MD
(2020 - 2023)
Art Teacher,
The Painting Workshop, Baltimore, MD
(2020 - 2022)
Private Art Tutor,
Baltimore, MD
(2020 - 2023)
House Intern,
Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
2019
Art Teacher,
Mosaic Center, Baltimore, MD
2019
Last Updated 24.10.31
RESEARCH
Accelerometer, Conductive Thread, Wires, Cotton Fabric, Arduino Uno, Wood, Electrical Tape, Laptop, Speaker, Max MSP
Etextile instrument that controls a Max MSP patch based on wind movement
This project is an open source jacquard loom that allows for individual control over 100 threads. Weavers are able to “program” patterns through punch cards which control whether or not a string will be lifted. This means that the loom is capable of weaving images and complex patterns which typical looms can’t. This version is inspired by the historical version of the jacquard loom but incorporates modern motorized control and is scaled down to be used by artists rather than industrial production.
The jacquard loom was introduced in the 17th century and in many ways came to represent a shift in human/machine relations. Textile workers had no rights over the machines that began to replace them and their desires were not considered by the engineers focused on speed and cost saving production. These looms went on to inspire early computer designs that used a similar punch card system to store data. This project is a way of rewriting this history, returning agency to weavers. This jacquard loom is able to be reproduced at any fablab, with all build plans available online for free and able to be edited and customized based on users needs.
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SMD LEDS, Wires, ATtiny 45, Push button, Silicon
Wearable skin electronics to confuse facial recognition systems. This project was made at the WAAG Futurelab in Amsterdam
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BACTERIALLY DERIVED MOTHER OF PEARL
MADDIE OLSEN, FINN YENCKEN, SARAH BECKER, LILY XIAO, ORIN NOEL, RILEY COX, STARTLONG WOLFRUM
Thinking about materials we preserve, especially as heirlooms, the pearl came up over and over. It is at once a token of generational love and a symbol of craft tradition, but also a visceral reminder that extraction (of earth, labor, and currency) is the core of the “precious materials” industry. Mother Nacre’s approach to bacterial nacre looks at the oyster as a role model for handling our most valued plastic, and uses bacteria to develop both a multi-layer coating and a bulk material that have properties of mollusk nacre
This process happens outside of an ocean; in collaboration with, not inside, an organism; and outside of industrial environments.
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Biplastic, Bacterial Cellulose, Estrogen, Metal Eyelets, Silica Beads, Methanol
This work is building off of research done by Mary Tsang at the MIT media lab. This project aimed to create speculative ways in which hormones could become an open source resource. I built a filter designed by Mary which extracts hormones from urine. I then soaked a bacterial cellulose pellicle I grew in my estrogen. Bacterial cellulose is a permeable material, which I used as a transdermal fabric. I made these into six circular patches imbedded within a shirt made of foam bioplastic. This work is imagining a future where we could grow our own clothes which act as a second skin, passing biological materials between garment and wearer. In this future, hormone access would become accessible the public outside of medical institutions allowing us to share hormones and achieve a sense of power and personal agency over our bodies and gender expression.
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TC-2 Woven Animation Frames, Cotton Fabric
Schulman Labs is working with synthetic DNA, programming exchange reactions to form desired patterns. This process takes DNA out of the context of the body to use it in a way comparable to a circuit. I wanted to reposition this research in relation to the body using a DNA pattern developed to mimic a stick figure. I translated the simulation into woven animation frames. These were then turned into a quilt, allowing you to hold this abstract process to your body.
Schulman Labs
RILEY COX'; MOLLIE CROSSMAN²; GARRETT HILL²; MAGGIE WANG²; DR. MARGARET G. MACDONALD³
Soluble salts within limestone objects are a major challenge for the Cultural Heritage field. Fluctuations in humidity during storage cause salts to dissolve, migrate, and recrystallize leading to loss of structural stability of the object. While full submersion into water is traditionally used, fragile objects require the use of a poultice.' Egyptian limestone objects in the collection of the Walters Art Museum require desalination with an agarose hydrogel poultice. Prior to the desalination, the surface is secured with an organic polymer consolidant to preserve structural integrity, but the effect of this consolidant on the treatment is unknown.
This project monitors and evaluates the efficacy of a 3% agarose hydrogel for desalination with and without a consolidant using a Profile NMR-MOUSE spectrometer. This portable, non-invasive analytical technique affords in-situ depth profile and relaxometry measurements of the salt water and hydrogel, affording real-time observation of the egress of salt water from stone to gel.2 T,' (spin-spin) relaxation times decrease with decreasing salinity and T, rates measured over the course of the treatment allows direct observation of the salinity changes in the stone. Additionally, objects at the Walters were also analyzed for salt content.
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