Sophie Foley is an artist. She draws. She creates collages. She is a zine maker. This, she tells me on the afternoon we speak by phone, is part of what drew her to Bard Graduate Center’s Lab for Teen Thinkers.
“My mom did push me to do this,” Sophie Foley is an artist. She draws. She creates collages. She is a zine maker. This, she tells me on the afternoon we speak by phone, is part of what drew her to Bard Graduate Center’s Lab for Teen Thinkers. “My mom did push me to do this,” she says of the decision to apply to the program, “but that was also in addition to me being very interested in the arts.”
It was an interest that blossomed throughout the summer of 2019, as Foley’s research culminated in an expansive presentation on zine making, informed by the Museum of Art and Design’s exhibition Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986. For the young artist, the Lab for Teen Thinkers placed her in the center of a dynamic institution and its brand of cultural inquiry that has guided artists, curators, critics, and historians for decades—what Foley describes as “this very interesting study of how objects and materialism form our identities.”
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Jessica Lynne is a writer, art critic, and a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives.
