Bucknell’s newest Ekard Artist-in-Residence began her position this past Sunday, Feb 1. Kirsten Stolle is a collage and text-based installation artist who utilizes imagery and terminology from chemical companies to examine their role in public systems and in social harm. Her time at Bucknell, which will end on Feb 17, will be spent conducting redaction, blackout and erasure poetry and collage workshops with students. A small exhibition, titled “Science for a Better Life,” is currently open in room 103 in Holmes Hall. 

Stolle spent the fall of 2025 in Genoa, Italy, as a Bogliasco Fellowship awardee. A tapestry she created using 1950s photographic material from Monsanto Chemical Company, titled “Last Supper” and ultimately modeled after the da Vinci of the same name, was featured during that time at the 18th International Textile Triennial in Poland. The work reimagines a standard corporate gathering of wealthy white men into a reflection on what would become a problematic future, even as they celebrate their then-current success within the business of war. Each man seated at the table — originally totaling but four — has been duplicated and mirrored to create a full-table appearance reminiscent of da Vinci’s arrangement of the Disciples.   

From Bucknell’s website: “The Ekard Artist-in-Residence provides students at Bucknell with  opportunities to engage with and learn from accomplished artists through  master classes, workshops, demonstrations and/or studio critiques in  conjunction with the Department of Art & Art History.”

Stolle will be giving a public talk in Holmes Hall, room 116, on Feb 11 at 5:00 p.m. More information about Stolle and her work can be found at kirstenstolle.com.