Candy Depew
is based in Philadelphia and travels internationally making her work along with researching collections of ornamental prints and decorative arts. She is preparing a multi-component, multi-directional, far-reaching project that will coalesce into a periodical publication—a fittingly glossy magazine—called candycoated (www.candycoated.org). The candycoated project disseminates, promotes, and shapes cultural understandings and creative manifestations of the decorative impulse. To highlight and fund the candycoated mission to spread beauty, Candy created moneymaker$, a line of intimate apparel decorated with her unique silkscreen designs.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Candy earned her BFA from Kent State University, with major studies in ceramics, jewelry and metals, drawing, French literature, and cultural anthropology. After studying at Newcomb School of Art at Tulane University, New Orleans, she completed her MFA at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, in 1997. In 2002, she continued furthering her interests with The London Consortium at the Tate Modern, London, focusing on the concept of "candycoateding".
Candy has lectured on and shown her sculptural ceramic work, silkscreen prints, and room installations at universities and galleries in the US and internationally. Candy worked with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, from 1998 to 2002, advancing to the position of Master Printer. In 2002, she received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, which enabled her to complete a five-year artist residency at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia . In 2004, she was selected for a four-month artist residency at the Kohler Arts/Industry Program in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In 2005, she was honored with a residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre in DenBosch, The Netherlands, with film-work create in Amsterdam, an NEA, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Chiem-Ried funded studio residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program- NYC. Candy returned to the Netherlands in 2009 at the EKWC with a future visit in 2012 to create domestic design projects with the Tilburg Textile museum.
To complement her candycoated initiative of decorating the world little by little and spreading her passion for silkscreen printing and decorating, Candy established the "StudioSchool" of decorative art & design in Philadelphia at her CandyCoated Center.** She has partnered with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Public School District to set up printing studios with students in their schools. She continues to candy coat her world, and is helping others to do so, as well.
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