S04E06 #Arttalk - Lindsey Brittain Collins

Tech Conversations at FIU’s Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator

In this talk we welcome Lindsey Brittain Collins with co-host Neil Ramsay in a unique conversation on how architecture and design can address social and economic challenges and exploring ways that the built environment can be a tool for creating equity.

Meet Lindsey Brittain Collins a New York-based painter working across multiple mediums, including collage, sculpture, and installation. She creates architectural abstractions that narrate her encounters with built environments and urban spaces. Inspired by contemporary and historical events, memory, and personal experiences, her conceptually driven work focuses on sharing untold stories and examining the relationship between architecture and social and economic structures.

She is particularly interested in investigating how architecture and design can address social and economic challenges and exploring ways that the built environment can be a tool for creating equity. Drawing on her academic background in business, economics, and sociology, she approaches the topics in her work through a critical lens.
Lindsey received her MFA from Columbia University in 2021. She received her B.A. in Economics and Sociology from the University of Virginia and her MBA from Columbia Business School. In 2018 she was appointed by the Governor to the Art & Architectural Review Board for the state of Virginia. Lindsey has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center, and in 2019 she was the recipient of the Washington DC Arena Stage Emerging Leader in the Arts Award. Currently, Brittain Collins is an artist-in- residence at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center, where this year's program focuses on social justice and activism.