Craig Grabhorn

Craig Grabhorn is a Wisconsin-based designer and founder of c.Cal a studio designing objects, spaces, brands, and experiences. He currently lives and works in Sheboygan, WI, and works as the Community Arts Residency Coordinator with The John Michael Kohler Arts Center. He was born and raised in rural Minnesota and has made a career as a practiced designer, printmaker, painter, curator, and arts organizer.

His work is inspired by a meditative exploration or observation of place and the opportunities within our natural surroundings. Through intensive listening he translates environment into material works, including prints, paintings and sculptural works. Objects he creates are often tools or vehicles of exploration, used to help capture and interpret the emotions and opportunities he finds.

Since moving to Sheboygan, Craig has been communing with Lake Michigan and the expansive horizon in a photography project titled 50over50atmos. This meditation was inspired after a two-year retreat in the hills of the Driftless region in southwest Wisconsin to study and create a print series exploring the ancient landscape. 50over50atmos documents the ever-changing colors, surfaces, and atmosphere of Lake Michigan as a daily capture from the same location on the shore. The practice of watching with an intimacy fuels a passion to find connection to local environment.

Grabhorn also exhibited with the Bubbler alongside his residency in 2015. See more in the exhibition archive.

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