Changing Nature

Madeleine Eve Ignon is a multimedia artist and graphic designer originally from Los Angeles who works in a wide range of painting, sewing, and collage techniques. Ignon makes multimedia and multi-panel pieces that enable collisions and conversations between the aesthetics of graphic design and painterly gestures. She has been awarded residencies at Starry Night Program (Truth or Consequences, New Mexico), Vermont Studio Center (Johnston, VT), and Drop Forge & Tool (Hudson, NY), and has exhibited internationally. She graduated from Connecticut College with a BA in Studio Art and a Certificate in Museum Studies, and received a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France. She earned her MFA from UC Santa Barbara, where she was the 2019–20 College of Creative Studies Teaching Fellow. Ignon currently teaches art and design at UCSB and Santa Barbara City College, is one-half of the experimental curatorial collaborative Beta Epochs, and is an artist-in-residence at Taft Gardens and Nature Preserve in Ojai, CA.