Eileen Wold, a 2021 Arts and Humanities Bainbridge Individual Artist Grant recipient, received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has exhibited and lectured nationally at galleries, universities, and museums. She has been featured on PBS’s Arts Beat for her Empty Waters project exploring the health of the Chesapeake Bay and at the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Big Table Talk series for her innovative approach to using non-traditional art materials as drawing objects. She received the Social Conscious Award from Contemporary Art Gallery Online in 2021 and is a featured member of ecoartspace.org. Wold was born and raised in New York and currently resides on Bainbridge Island, outside of Seattle, where she is an artist with CORE Gallery.