Quin Crumb (America. 1998)  is an artist, fabricator, and skateboarder from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Crumb earned a BFA in graphic design in 2021 from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. His work inspects our relationships with objects, activities, social norms, and images that surround us. He works with a variety of mediums including but not limited to drawing, printmaking, foundry, animation, and furniture design. Crumb approaches making with a unique design process which mirrors collage and dovetails pragmatism with absurdity. Much of his work stems from a daily drawing, collage, and writing practice which he maintains with varying degrees of tenacity. This practice is largely fueled by experimentation and play. It acts as a point of unity where his writing, drawing, and scraps from other forms of art making find a home next to found objects and material. Crumb’s practice leverages humor, material experimentation, constrained processes, intuition and mistakes to explore intersections of absurdity, functionality, skateboarding, spirituality, craftsmanship, vulnerability, ambiguity, sacredness, mending, masculinity, pointing, connections, failure, storytelling, secrets, and more. Crumb lives and works in Brooklyn, NY as a wood and metal fabricator and art handler. He Spends his time outside of work cultivating his personal art practice, skateboarding, and singing karaoke.

Contact

email: quincrumb@gmail.com
instagram: @quintifipics
twitch:  www.twitch.tv/quintificus

The University of Tennessee Chattanooga

BFA Graphic Design, summa cum laude | 2021
Innovations In Honors, UTC Honor’s College
Departmental Honors, UTC College of Arts & Sciences

Salem Art Works

Studio Artist Coordinator & Wood Shop Director | Salem, NY | 2022-
Managing Studio artist’s worktrade, facilitating critiques,  wood, metal & print shop upkeep, machine maintenance, resident artist support & shop training, gallery curation and install, and sculpture installation.

The Open Press

Resident Print Shop Manager | Chattanooga, TN | 2022-23
Organizing and teaching workshops, machine maintenance, ordering supplies, training resident artists on machine use and safety, event programming, and facilitating shop use for members.

Institute of Contemporary Art at UTC

Contract Art Handler | Chattanooga, TN | 2022-23
Installation of art works, painting the galleries, fabricating display walls and shelves, delivering and shipping works, deinstallation, packing, and cataloging of art works.

Branch Technology

Fabrication Technician | Chattanooga, TN | 2021-2022
Research and product development, day to day fabrication work in wood, metal, concrete and plastic, wood and metal shop upkeep and machine maintenance, and high pressure problem solving

UTC Sequoya Review

Art Editor & Designer | Chattanooga, TN | 2020-21
Publication design and layout, curation of selected works, art direction, and delegation of design work.

Chattanooga Design Studio

Graphic Designer | Chattanooga, TN | 2020-21
Worked on ideation, design, and exectution of
community projects.

UTC Art SECAC Design Assistantship

Graphic Design Intern | Chattanooga, TN | 2019
Design of materials for national arts conference including handbook, app, and motion graphics

UTC Center for Global Education

Graphic Design Intern | Chattanooga, TN | 2018-19
Design, photography, and videography work including branding, posters, merchandise, and motion graphics

Residencies & Awards

Stove Works

Artist in Residence | Chattanooga, TN | 2022, 2023

The Open Press

Printer in Residence | Chattanooga, TN | 2022-23

Society of Ink & Paper

President | Chattanooga, TN |2019-2021

MICA Printers' Camp

Resident | Baltimore, MA | 2019

UCF Shuptrine Art Scholarship

Awarded by UTC Art | 2020

Jane M. And John H. Guthrie scholarship

Awarded by UTC Innovations in Honors | 2019

Matt Hasse Scholarship

Awarded by UTC art | 2019

First Place

UTC Juried Student Exhibition | 2019

Peoples Choice Award

UTC Animated Drawing Screening | 2018