Artist Info

Adam Atkinson
Penland, NC

Penland Affiliation | Penland Resident Artist, 2021

Artist Information | Adam’s work documents relationships between gender and the body using adornment and small-scale woodcarving as formats for exploration. He is a co-founder of Spectral Matter, an ongoing LGBTQIA+ exhibition platform, was co-chair for the ECU Symposium, and has been an instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University and Boise State University. Adam received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Boise State University and an MFA in Metal Design from East Carolina University.