Instagram story viewer> @isabelzzeng> Tagged

Isabel Zeng

@isabelzzeng

755

followers

789

following

craft, performance, video
drink the sea, wipe the horizon, unleash the sun

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

BJC Focus: Steady Hands
October 10th and 11th

Join the Baltimore Jewelry Center for our annual symposium, BJC Focus: Steady Hands. Together, we’ll explore what occurs when we slow down and look more closely at our work and working practices.

Presented to coincide with Handwork 2026, a year-long initiative from Craft in America @craftinamerica, this year’s symposium invites speakers who consider thoughtful making, traditional techniques, contemplation, and practices that resist the pressure for speed and efficiency. Day two of the symposium will be an open studio, with free studio rental available to our community and an opportunity to spend the day making something by hand.

Saturday, October 10 | 12–3pm ET

Online artist talks featuring :
-Emily Banas @decartscurator
-Naama Levit @naamalevit
-Jolynn Santiago @jolynnsantiago
-Isabel Zeng @isabelzzeng

This lecture series is free and open to all via Zoom.

Sunday, October 11 | 12 – 6pm
Join us at BJC for an open studio day with FREE studio rental, demonstrations, and a chance to spend the day making alongside our community.

Both days are free to attend.
Registration required: Links in our linktr.ee

105

1

Wishing a happy (belated) retirement to our beloved professor, Tom Muir⭐️

We’ll miss you, but we hope to see you again soon in the studio!
.
.
.
#metals #metalsmith #bgsuart #retirement #bgsumetals

215

13

A little raising demo with the incredible David Huang⚒️✨

We are so lucky to have had the opportunity to watch David demonstrate a variety of raising techniques and tools during his demo at SNAG. He is truly a technical master when it comes to forming!
.
.
.
#metal #metalsmith #demo #raising #snagxdetroit

542

8

The legendary Elizabeth Brim brings the heat🔥⚒️

What an honor to witness Elizabeth’s demo on her iconic imaginary flowers during SNAG’s Friday breakout sessions! She is an absolute force to be reckoned with and a pleasure to be around🌸
.
.
.
#metal #blacksmith #metalsmith #forging #snagxdetroit

655

23

Performance de @isabelzzeng

36

3

Performance de @isabelzzeng y Michael Arrigo

36

1

A week ago I returned from Mexico and I am learning how to be here again...
After a time that was intense, full, dense with encounters and presence, everything feels both close and very distant.
The whole experience stayed somewhere in the body, in the pulsing, in the rhythm, in something I still cannot name and maybe I want be able to...
This is only a small fragment of a three-day ritual of the Rarámuri community in Norogachi,
which we were able to witness together with a group of artists invited by Gustavo Alvarez / Performancear o Morir <3
These celebrations take place during Holy Week, a form introduced by missionaries, which the Rarámuri have woven into their own rhythm of the world, connected to the cycles of life, land, and community.
Dance here is not a form of expression, it is an action, a relation, a way of sustaining the world.
The Rarámuri dance for three days and three nights !
They say that if they stop dancing , the world begins to fall apart.
***
Tydzień temu wróciłam z Meksyku i uczę się znowu być tutaj....
Po czasie, który był intensywny, pełny, gęsty od spotkań i obecności, wszystko wydaje się jednocześnie bliskie i bardzo odległe.
Całe doświadczenie zostało gdzieś w ciele, w pulsowaniu, w rytmie, w czymś, czego jeszcze nie umiem nazwać, nie wiem nawet czy to w ogóle mozliwe...

To tylko mały fragment trzydniowego rytuału społeczności Rarámuri w Norogachi, którego mogliśmy doświadczyć razem z grupą artystek i artystów zaproszonych przez @cosmossfactory Gustavo Alvarez / @performancear_o_morir <3
Obchody odbywają się w czasie Wielkiego Tygodnia, formie przyniesionej przez misjonarzy, którą Rarámuri włączyli w swój własny rytm świata, związany z cyklem życia, ziemi i wspólnoty.
Taniec nie służy tu ekspresji.
Jest działaniem, relacją, sposobem podtrzymywania świata.
Rarámuri tańczą przez trzy dni i trzy noce!
Mówią, że jeśli przestają tańczyć, świat się rozpada.
Wyjazd został zrealizowany w ramach Zadania Horyzontalnego Akademii Sztuk Pięknych im. Władysława Strzemińskiego w Łodzi.

32

2

Woman Made Gallery presents Quiet Piggy: We Cannot Be Silenced, a powerful virtual group exhibition featuring 58 artists from the US and abroad, juried by Julie Carpenter. The exhibition confronts misogynistic language head-on, reclaiming derogatory terms as a rally cry for resilience, resistance, and defiance.

Swipe to see our featured artists' work and visit our website to see the whole virtual exhibition: https://womanmade.org/quiet-piggy/

#womanmadegallery #quietpiggy #wecannotbesilenced #womenartists #feministart

101

4

Unconventional ideas spark curiosity.
Sleepy Eyes challenges both the audience and the artists to experience cinema differently.

Films are taken out of traditional spaces and placed directly in the street — creating new questions, new rhythms, and new ways of watching.

We asked some of the selected artists what this shift meant for them, and their answers surprised us.

#outdoorcinema #citycinema #experimentalfilm #thehague

36

0

You won’t want to miss the opening of these fantastic exhibitions this Thursday! Come out to Artlink from 5-8PM on Jan 8th to celebrate the opening of our exhibitions: Midwest Regional, Storied, and Postcard Exhibition & Sale!

There’s a bit of every style and medium included in these exhibitions, so there is a little something for everyone to fall in love with! See you Thursday!

#exhibitions #downtownfortwayne #gallery #event #artlinkfw

44

0

Come out to Artlink next Thursday, Jan 8 from 5-8PM for the opening of our 2026 Regional Exhibition, Storied, and our Postcard Exhibition & Sale! These are three excellent exhibitions that you won’t want to miss. You can even bring a postcard-sized work home with you that night for only $5!

51

1

Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating the artists and community members who make Toledo vibrant and thriving. What a meaningful way to close out 2025!

Join us in congratulating the 2025 Merit Award recipients:
• Ruth Foote @photoruthfoote
• Barry Whittaker @barry_whittaker
• Isabel Zeng @isabelzzeng

Selected by a panel of Midwest arts leaders, these outstanding local artists are recognized for their meaningful contributions to our region’s creative community.

Learn more about each artist at theartscommission.org/artists/merit-awards or via the link in our bio.

Thank you to our sponsors the Ohio Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Margy Trumbull, for making this program possible.

Photography by Mariah Maddox

3

0