STAR Collaboration

The STAR Collaboration (Students, Teachers, Artists-in-Residence) invites artists from visual, literary, musical, and performing arts genres to join Eagle Hill for a semester of focused art work, and to come together with our students and teachers to facilitate novel learning opportunities.

The STAR residency program is open to artists at any stage of their careers—emerging artists, well-established artists, art teachers, and artists returning to former careers in the arts. STAR artists are educators at heart, who want to work with students while expanding the definition of what being an educator means; who are interested in novel, interdisciplinary educational approaches; and who thrive on collaboration with others.

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Eleanor Ray

Interdisciplinary Art

Eleanor Ray (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist who has built an exploratory practice around reused materials. She is the founder of a creative reuse center (The WasteShed) which has become a crucial resource for Chicago’s art & educational communities, and delighted in building a diverse community and an absurdist brand around radical silliness and trash.

Much of this 10-year social praxis has involved acting as materials librarian and hosting a shifting web of experimental refusals of specious novelty and convenience. Among other projects, she has led dozens of public clothing repair workshops under the title of Radical Mending, teaching hundreds of participants of all ages creative textile-based problem-solving since 2012.