Virtual Studio Visit: Stephanie Todhunter

New Program!

As we embrace social distancing, and look for creative ways to share art and inspiration, CAA is launching a series of Virtual Studio visits. We will host these visits via ZOOM, allowing up to 100 guests to ‘visit’ local artist's studios, ask questions about the artists work and progress, and share in community, from a distance. For our this Virtual Studio Visit, we are pleased to visit the studio of Stephanie Todhunter!

Virtual Studio Visits are free, and open to all!

If you are not already registered in our database, you can close the account login pop-up on the registration page by clicking the X in the top right corner, and then proceed with your registration. 

All attendees must register for this event in order to receive the link and login information for the ZOOM event. Registration automatically closes at 11:59pm EST on May 11. If you are unable to register in time, please contact Erin Becker at ebecker@cambridgeart.org to sign-up for the event.

The link to the ZOOM event will be emailed in the morning on the scheduled event date. 

About Stephanie's Artwork: Stephanie Todhunter started working on the latchkey kids in 2014. The backbone of the series is an ongoing succession of plaster encased vintage dolls, each re-colored and re-named. The plaster encased girls (reminiscent of Han Solo encased in carbonite) begin as vintage Dawn dolls from the 1970s. These dolls were only made for a brief amount of time and generally only remembered by the GenX generation. Dawn dolls are smaller than Barbies and, although they have exaggerated waspish waists and perky breasts, are “tweenish” in age. They were small, generic, easy to carry and easy to lose. Once the dolls have been plastered and inked, they develop distinct and often unsettling features and personalities. Stephanie takes a photographic portrait of each girl to capture and highlight these quirks. These portraits are used in larger pieces to tell stories about the lost girls. Common themes are isolation, stranger danger, missing children, parental neglect, and lord-of-the-flies-like adventure in small town suburbia. Most recently Stephanie has been working on a subset of the lost girls, called SugarCerealSaints, which play on the concerns and fears of evangelical Christians living in the 1980s (satanic panic, backmasking, dungeons and dragons, barcode tattoos).

About Stephanie: Stephanie Todhunter grew up in the late 70s/early 80s Midwest, and was moved from small town to small town by her single working mother. Immediacy and experimentation are essential to her multidisciplinary practice. Stephanie's work has been included in group exhibitions and featured in solo shows in Boston and across New England, and is held in private collections around the world. She is currently based outside of Boston.

Learn more about Stephanie:

Online stephanietodhunter.com

On Instagram @stephanietodhunterart