2020 Hotbox Residency

Danielle Demetria East & Julianna Johnston

Hotbox Goes Virtual

MASS is excited to announce the recipients of this year’s Hotbox Residency, Danielle Demetria East and Julianna Johnston! We look forward to supporting the artists as they make work from their home-studios, and engage our audience on our Instagram and website.

Danielle Demetria East

West Texas-based installation artist, Danielle Demetria East has been honing her skills as a found-object sculptor and mixed-media assemblage artist for the past few years. Originally from La Grange, Texas, East was born in 1997 and lived the majority of her life around her family (in particularly her grandmother) and in the rural areas of Fayette County, Texas. East’s work explores the similarities between the Black woman and practitioners of magic, using installation, sculpture, performance, and poetry to examine metaphors of femalehood and themes of pain, persecution, power, and healing.
https://danielledemetria.portfoliobox.net/

Julianna Johnston

Julianna Johnston is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Baltimore, MD. Her practice interweaves movement workshops, and live performances, with experimental documentaries, and video installations. Using play and absurdity, she attempts to shift viewers into active system analysts. Encouraging participants to question, reconsider, and re-imagine the systems that are outside, within, and between themselves.
https://www.juliannajohnston.com/