Studio 88 Artist Residency is pleased to welcome Jordan Kendall Parks as an artist-in-residence. A visual artist, printmaker, and installation artist, Parks brings a deeply embodied, place-responsive practice shaped by years of working within coastal, rural, and public landscapes. Her work asks how environments move through us—how land, water, air, and human presence shape our bodies, rhythms, and sense of belonging. Her residency takes place in February 2026 as part of the Reviving Nature programme.
Jordan Kendall Parks is a multidisciplinary artist and creative educator based in Southern Maine. Formally trained in printmaking, she earned a BFA in Printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Since graduating, Parks has developed a robust practice that spans hand-pulled relief monoprints, murals, outdoor installations, teaching, and community engagement.
Her career reflects a strong commitment to public access and ecological dialogue. Parks has been awarded numerous grants and honors, including the Kindling Fund (2017, 2024), the Awesome on the Water Grant (2022), the Brookie Award (2020), and the SnowFarm BIPOC Scholarship (2023). Her work has been supported by organisations invested in environmental stewardship, creative place-making, and community-driven art.
Parks has participated in artist residencies across the United States and internationally, including Indigo Arts Alliance, The Carpenter’s Boat Shop, Rippleffect Cow Island, and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in Iceland, among others. Her murals and public artworks can be found throughout New England and beyond, from Portland, Maine to Washington State and El Salvador, extending her nature-inspired visual language into shared, lived spaces.
Alongside her studio and public art practice, Parks is an active teaching artist, leading workshops and educational programs at institutions such as Waterfall Arts, Indigo Arts Alliance, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, and the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine.
At the core of Parks’ practice is an ongoing inquiry into how place inhabits the body. Working primarily in relief monoprinting and site-responsive outdoor installation, she uses carving, layering, and printing as tools for observation—mapping both the human imprint on the environment and the environment’s imprint on us.
Much of her work has evolved within the coastal and rural landscapes of Maine, responding to tidal movement, weather patterns, and human interaction with land and water. For Parks, printmaking becomes a parallel form of mapping—one that records gesture, texture, and time. Installing work outdoors is essential to her practice; it disrupts conventional ideas of where art belongs and who feels invited to encounter it. Outside, the work is shaped by light, weather, and human presence, becoming part of a shared ecosystem rather than a contained object.
Parks is currently drawn to unfamiliar environments and the questions they provoke: how new textures, densities, climates, and cultural rhythms alter the work—and the artist herself. Her practice is an embodied conversation between movement, environment, and belonging, continually reshaped by the places she inhabits.
During her residency at Studio 88, Parks proposes to expand this inquiry by responding directly to the ecological and atmospheric conditions of Doi Saket, Thailand. Departing from her long-standing focus on coastal waters, she will turn her attention to air as a landscape, exploring connections between air quality, respiratory vulnerability, herbal knowledge, and ecological stress.
Her project will include the development of a new series of relief monoprints, created through woodcut and monoprint processes. These works will be built from observational drawings, layered textures, and impressions gathered through daily walks, hikes, and site visits. The prints will function as both visual records and sensory maps of place, shaped by climate, movement, and lived experience.
In tandem with the print series, Parks plans to create a small outdoor or semi-outdoor installation, potentially a light-based or hanging sculptural work. This piece will be responsive to the region’s atmosphere and environmental pressures, allowing air, light, and space to actively shape the final form.
More about Jordan Kendall Parks on her website.
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