Travis Head makes drawings primarily rooted in the notion of souvenir. His works commemorate actual lived experiences and those that might be better described as virtual, in equal measure.
Head’s drawings and artist’s books have been exhibited throughout the United States. He has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Ox-Bow, Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and he is a 2015 recipient of a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship. His work has been discussed in The Washington Post and reproduced in Syracuse University’s journal Stone Canoe and Manifest’s International Drawing Annual 7. His collective, The Four-footed Fellows Correspondence Club, has exhibited nationally, as well as in Norway and Qatar. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and a B.A. from the University of Mary Washington and is Associate Professor of Drawing at Virginia Tech’s School of Visual Art.
While in residence, Head translated autobiographical drawings into quilt squares using digital embroidery and hand-stitching techniques.
