Kala Art Institute Artist Residency /  by Carol Elkovich

I am excited to have been selected as an Artist in Residence at the Kala Art Institute in 2027. I am eager to get my hands on the floor looms in the Sculpture Studio next spring. Returning to Kala will be a joy — the studios are so excellent, and I am excited to be around a new community of artists. Gratitude.

People's Choice Award /  by Carol Elkovich

It was such a pleasure to be awarded the honor of a people’s choice prize at the Places I’ve Never Known exhibition at Epperson Gallery in Crockett, California, for my piece — West from Loch Lomond. What a great community gallery and creative resource in Crockett.

CCA closure announced /  by Carol Elkovich

Having spent most of my adult life associated with California College of the Arts, first as an alum and then as a professor for another 27 years, this news is devastating. I will miss this community deeply. After over 100 years of CCA, the legacy of arts and design education in the Bay Area is being erased slowly as yet another small arts college closes. We need artists, culture, art education, and resilient creative thinking. I am now moving into another chapter of my practice and will practice what I have taught, as always — risk, resilience, deep thinking, slow making, and community building.

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar . Glasgow School of Art. six months in the Highlands /  by Carol Elkovich

This was the residency of a lifetime. Heavily documented in my IG, take a look there for videos, tours and research in the highlands and islands, and incredible landscapes. In 2024, I experienced an incredibly transformative six months while living, making, and researching in Scotland — which led to a body of new work, new approaches to materiality and landscape, a book (Reading Landscape — Intellect Press UK, Forthcoming Spring 2027 catalog), and a cherished new network of artists and designers. Grateful.

Off to Italy! /  by Carol Elkovich

I will be in residence at the Siena Art Institute for one month. I am making an installation titled “Fatherland” and working with the art students there playing my art games and working with them in their studios. So excited!

Siena, Italy