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Cassie Tompkins (she/her) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and designer. She recently earned her MFA in Visual Studies and was awarded the MFA Thesis Award and Honorarium from the Pacific Northwest College of Arts. In 2010 she received a BFA with a concentration in visual communication design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in 2001 she graduated with a BFA in photography from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.

In 2017 she completed the inaugural FIELD/WORK Residency at the Chicago Artist Coalition and attended ACRE residency in Steuben, WI. She was an award recipient of the Cleve Carney Art Museum’s One: Annual Emerging Artist exhibition and an open studio resident at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME in 2018. She has exhibited throughout the Chicago area at the Comfort Station, the Annex Gallery at Spudnik Press, the Hyde Park Art Center, Lillstreet Art Center, ACRE Projects, Roman Susan, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, and Mana Contemporary.

Cassie was as part of the Design department at the Art Institute of Chicago for over 8 years and is now freelance designer working with cultural organizations throughout the country and is currently the Design Director at Women Unite!