Shelli Hoppe
MA, MSED, MPS UX Design, MFA
Hello (from all over the) World!
Imagine meeting you here on a Wednesday while your favorite coworker (me!) sends you gifs of camels. You might be wondering, Why so ROYGBIV? Ah, so. Much. Rice! Am I speaking with the newest, hottest version of a Japanese AI? Not yet, but a designer can dream. I bring:
10 years experience in UX strategy, copywriting, and research.
2 years expert experience in Figma and Adobe Suite.
20 years of international education and development experience spanning 7 countries and 5 American states.
Prestigious Stuff: I have been awarded residencies, fellowships, and scholarships from the Artesumepaz, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Spitsbergen Artist Residency, Omega Institute, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop, Warren Wilson, Middlebury Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Catapult. Check out my resume for those specifics.
Interests: My intersectional and interdisciplinary artwork plays with humor, neuroscience research, behavioral health movements across artistic disciplines, Western/Eastern literary theories, and violence de-escalation. I am interested in our naive notions of the innocence of origin, affect theory in relation to political movements across international borders, modern computing and botany, counterterrorism’s legacy, and the origin of AI and associative thinking patterns in autistic children.
My Poetics: My choices are at deliberate odds with the aesthetics of cruelty. I practice play as a healing art, and joy as an invitation. I do all this with reverence and hope that I can move towards grace. Most of all, my work exists in a collectivist conversation with its audience. My question of our shared America, my forever homeland, is this: Is “defiance” the pejorative of difference?
