Please join us in welcoming Bryan Denis as the Near North Makerspace’s new artist in residence!

Bryan Denis’s work sits between visual design, storytelling, science, and hands-on making. They have a background in wildlife biology and graphic design, and they are especially drawn to combining real biological ideas with fantasy and worldbuilding. Bryan likes taking something imaginary and asking what it would look like if it actually existed: how it would live, what evidence it would leave behind, and how we might study or interpret it.

Bryan’s current creative work includes illustration and photo compositing, graphic design, podcast production, voicework, fantasy worldbuilding, props, miniature work, painting, woodworking, and 3D printing. Across all of those mediums, they keep coming back to the same idea: making imaginary worlds feel like real places with history, ecology, objects, and evidence.

Bryan will be working in the makerspace on their project Fauna Incognita: Field Studies in Speculative Zoology. We are thrilled to welcome them to into the space and look forward to seeing their work. Feel free to stop by the Near North Makerspace and see their process!

Stayed tuned for a future artist talk and workshop by Bryan.