Insights: Terra Goolsby

Join us for a special evening in the Garden as artist Terra Goolsby talks about her UMLAUF installation, Totems.

Totems is apart of the UMLAUF's rotating exhibition series, Suspended at the UMLAUF. 

Doors open at 6pm.  Panel Discussion at 6:30pm.  Free and open to the public.

Terra Goolsby (b. 1976, Austin, TX) is a Latinx multimedia artist based in Austin whose work explores mythology, memory, and cultural identity through sculpture and material transformation. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was a Presidential Scholar, and a BFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work draws on Mesoamerican and familial narratives, using materials like paper, clay, fabric, and carbon to explore themes of inheritance, metamorphosis, and cultural recognition.

Goolsby has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions including Anya Tish Gallery, Women & Their Work, and Dallas Contemporary. She has held residencies at West Dean College in England, Vermont Studio Center, and I-Park Foundation, and has received grants and fellowships from the City of Austin and the Edward James Foundation. She is a cofounder of Icosa Gallery and works out of her Austin studio.