On Saturday, November 22, 2025 Jude Abu Zaineh (@judeaz_) completed her two-week Print+New Media residency with us!

Jude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist-curator working across art, food, science, and technology studies. Her work develops counter-archive practices and investigates themes of culture, displacement, storytelling, diaspora, and belonging, through de-colonial and feminist perspectives. She examines ideals of home and community influenced by her childhood and upbringing in Southwest Asia. Abu Zaineh is the recipient of several awards including, the 2020 William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists, and was one of the first selected artists to participate in a collaborative residency with the Ontario Science Centre and MOCA Toronto (Canada). She has presented her works at Ireland Glass Biennale; Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, Malta; Cultivamos Cultura, São Luis, Portugal; Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal; Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, Mexico; SVA, NYC, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, USA; Forest City Gallery, London, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France; Museum London, Canada; Museum of Glass, Washington, USA, and more. Her work has been featured in VICE Arabia, PBS, NPR, across CBC Canada platforms, Canadian Art magazine, NEUES GLAS-NEW GLASS: art & architecture magazines, and on the cover of fuse: the Museum of Glass Magazine. She received an MFA from the University of Windsor (Canada) and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY, USA), where she was an RPI Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Fellow and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow.

“Having dedicated studio time and access to facilities at iea was incredibly transformative and rewarding. I had the chance to work across so many material practices ranging from printing on paper, wood, and textile, to glasswork, and metal etchings to push my ideas and projects further. The campus and broader community at Alfred was generous and embraced my work in unimaginable ways; I connected with so many faculty and students. Most importantly, the staff and interns at iea are an exceptional team to work with. I hope to come back in the future and continue building on this body of work and the relationships developed here!”

If you missed Jude’s artist talk, make sure you check it out and others on the iea YouTube channel here!

Jude Abu Zaineh and iea Director Myles Calvert mixing inks for screenprinting.

Dye sublimation on woodblocks.

Dye sublimation on fabric.

Jude and Veronica (iea Intern) reviewing Jude’s completed prints.

Jude, Brig, and Myles screenprinting.

Jude speaking with Alfred students.