MFA 2026 Artists MFA 2026 Artists: Immer Cook

About Immer Cook

Immer Cook is a ceramicist and sculptor from Easthampton, Massachusetts, with a background in modern dance and landscape construction. He received his B.A. in Creative Arts from Bradford College in Haverhill, MA in 1996 where he was given the George Hasseltine Art Prize and Richard Kenny Memorial Art Purchase Award. He is currently a Ceramics MFA candidate and Teaching Fellow at UMass Dartmouth, creating assemblages combining hand-built ceramics and found materials that explore a spectrum of permanence, stability, gesture and craft.

Statement

I create temporary systems of structural dependency that use hybrid forms and improvised supports to convey a spectrum of stability and precariousness. I explore the relationship of natural growth and constructed fragments in temporary ecosystems that question how bodies and structure adapt, lean and persist in unstable environments. Through iteration and experimentation, I position myself as a student of the materials and objects I work with. I prioritize their intrinsic properties and the ways they can fit together to form larger structures, rather than their intended uses.

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