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Cecily Walsman
25/26
As a student of integrative studio practice in sculpture and illustration, Cecily Walsman has been exploring new ways to create emotive line drawings and portraits that depict the human experience through her specific artistic lens. She works with a wide variety of media, including steel rods, wire, thread on tulle fabric, sgraffito on ceramics, lino prints, and traditional pencil and paper. Walsman is especially drawn to materials that are repurposed, recyclable, or plant-based, such as textile scraps, metal, wood, and natural pigments. She recently co-founded a new student organization to bridge the gap between students and Indianapolis ’community of professional artists. As part of At The Tone Collective’s first exhibition in February 2026 at Herron School of Art and Design, she showed two sculptures, her award-winning juice box, and her female figural steel-rod piece inspired by her visit to Fernando Botero’s museum in Bogotá, Colombia. Walsman is regularly exploring new media, participating in shows, and selling her work in the Indianapolis area.
Neighbor, Witness, Beholder | canvas, tulle fabric, thread, steel | 72x48
Neighbor, Witness, Beholder | canvas, tulle fabric, thread, steel | 72x48
The Matrixial City by Gerburg Garmann , Cecily Walsman | multimedia | 65x45
“My work for this show was inspired by artist Bracha Ettinger’s writings and paintings about the “matrixial gaze” (from matrix, meaning womb), a term she coined to identify a concept in contrast to the traditional “phallic gaze.” The matrixial gaze is characterized by a pre-natal space where we are not individuals or islands, but wit(h)nesses to our co-existence, a concept she later translates into communal co-responsibilities. Inspired by Ettinger’s work, I have created Neighbor, Witness, Beholder to depict an abstract perspective on the story of the Good Samaritan. In this piece, I use embroidered portraits on tulle fabric to create a space filled with shadow portraits. You are invited to enter my womb-like installation, wit(h)ness your neighbors, and hold the experiences of others through your shadowed gaze.”
