Scout Cartagena (They/She) is a sculpture artist and printmaker. Through a multi-disciplinary practice that uses printmaking, glass, audio and video, and performance they create works that attempt to find moments of stillness, capture fleeting memory, and express fractures created from the struggle of mental health and chronic illness within their Afro-latine heritage. They believe the body acts as an heirloom and explores this through creating "heirlooms" for themselves and their ancestors.
Cartagena received their BFA in Glass and Art Education certification at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia, and is currently attending SAIC in Chicago as a first year sculpture graduate.