Join us for this live online panel hosted by Studio 213, an artists' collaborative based in Boston's SoWa art district. We’ll talk to four artists while looking at their websites and discussing what they've learned in the process of making them:

- Christina Balch
- Julia Csekö
- Nick Di Stefano
- Adriana G. Prat

Our conversation will cover practical advice on building, designing, maintaining, and marketing your digital space as an artist, with time for Q&A at the end of the program. RSVP and submit your questions here. This event is free and will take place on Zoom.

Speaker Bios

Christina Balch: Christina Balch (she/her) is an artist, producer, and technologist. In her art practice, Christina is interested in the way people define themselves digitally, especially through the use of mobile technology and self-documentation during the age of social media. Rooted in drawings, her artwork comes to life in different forms including digital experiences and electronics. Christina works as a senior-level digital producer and digital marketing consultant for small businesses, advertising agencies, and corporations. Christina is based in Boston and a Southern California native.

Julia Csekö: Csekö was born in Colorado and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2010, she moved to Boston, Massachusetts to pursue an MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. She is the recipient of a Somerville Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship 2021, and the Somerville Museum Community Curator grant 2021/2022. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Umbrella Center for the Arts, and was invited as a Visiting Artist by Emerson College for the Summer of 2020. In addition, she has a public mural on view at Winter Place, downtown Boston, commissioned by the Boston Downtown BID, and created in partnership with the Boston Literary District. In 2018 Csekö was invited to the Assets for Artists MassMoCA residency program where she further investigated her multi-disciplinary practice as a sculptor, painter, and performer.

Her most recent work gravitates around social experiments grounded on a paradigm shift from competitive to collaborative mindset in social actions and interactions. Csekö is the recipient of a 2016 Walter Feldman Fellowship, awarded by the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston. She divides her time between being a Practicing Artist and an Educator at Montserrat College of Art.

Nick Di Stefano: Nick is a Boston-based artist fascinated by the intersection of design, technology and people. His work is an extension of his career as a user experience and product designer, drawing on art history and fine arts. He is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in working with typography and the deconstruction and transformation of spaces. With a background in installation and public art, he explores how art and design can impact the way people view themselves, each other, and their environment and the interactions at play between them.

Adriana G. Prat: Adriana is an academically trained scientist with a Ph.D in Biophysics. After moving to the USA from Argentina, a more introspective life revealed her call to become a visual artist. She acquired essential art skills in adult education centers while experimenting on her own with different media and techniques.

Her artwork typically consists of boldly colored and layered, oil- or acrylic-based non-representational paintings, often evoking maps, islands, or the cells of organisms, signaling that she has not abandoned her scientific past. With her more recent work, Adriana explores ways to inspire awareness of the climate crisis.

Adriana has exhibited at open studios, galleries, alternative spaces, and museums, in Argentina, and the US, mostly in the greater Boston area. More recently, she has shown in galleries in Reykjavík, Iceland, and London, UK. When not at her Cambridge studio or traveling, Adriana welcomes visitors to a shared studio in the Boston SoWa Art & Design District.