November 04, 2020 Monroe Isenberg Meet the artists of the 2020 MCAD Faculty Biennial Working with Shawn Stone, a professional acrobat and MFA in contemplative movement and dance, I created the sculpture and video—Habitus. Habitus is a performative sculpture that activates with movement and creates gentle sounds reminiscent of rain. The visual effects produced by the movement allude to prairie grass blowing in the wind, a chestnut seed, sea anemone, and a gentle being existing between animate and inanimate states. About Monroe Isenberg Monroe Isenberg’s work engages minimalism, light, space, sound, and reacts to phenomena natural to our world. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Maryland, College Park. Isenberg is the recipient of multiple awards, grants, and residencies including the 2019 tristate Trawick Artist prize, International Outstanding Student Achievement Award winner (2017), and included in the 2020 Aesthetica Art: Future Now anthology in the UK. His artwork has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections across the United States. Most recently, Isenberg was invited to participate in the fellowship program at the Lunga School in Iceland in fall 2019 and is currently an adjunct professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Explore more about Monroe Isenberg