Artist Member
Senescence
Wood, paper, mica, found natural objects/bark, thread
Untitled
Paper, mica, spore prints, bark paper, Tyvek
Ambling
Watercolor paper, eco-printed images, wax, thread
Anita Gangi Balkun 
@abalkunart on Instagram
BIO
Anita Gangi Balkun is a multi-media artist who works with paper, textiles, and found objects using the touchstones of nature, family, history and daily life. She completed artist’s residencies at Drop Forge and Tool (Hudson, NY) and at the Farmington Valley Arts Center (Avon, CT), and has been commissioned to create public installations in New Haven and Hartford, CT. Balkun has earned show awards for her work in book arts and mixed media sculpture, and her work was recently highlighted in Fiber Art Now magazine’s Summer 2021 issue. Anita completed undergraduate degrees at Fairfield University and CCSU, and a MFA at the University of Hartford. A longtime teaching artist at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, she now enjoys art-making in her home and studio overlooking the river in Bloomfield, CT.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Each artwork tells a story of time, grounding, and tactile design…
The core of my artistic process is a blend of many interests fueled by curiosity and experimentation. I think of my studio as a lab for discovering new combinations and artistic approaches, especially when coming natural materials into my artwork. This intuitive method of ‘making’ also has very individual outcome – so each artwork is totally unique – a singular object with its own particular combination of materials and processes.