about piper

Born and raised in Ventura County, California, Piper Snowber is a Junior attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a Distinguished Scholars Scholarship. Piper is a non-binary, multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates the broader social, political, and ecological context of fiber materials and installation practices. Their ultimate goal is to enrich the soil, literally and figuratively, by developing relationships to land, people, and materials. They have exhibited work at Watershed Art and Ecology, Studio Channel Islands, and the Museum of Ventura County. Piper has been involved with various environmental justice organizations, including the Pesticide Free Soil Project and CFROG, as well as community gardens and small-scale, BIPOC-led farms, such as Kindred C.R.A.F.T. They hope to continue their artistic practice and complete several years of work exchange after school.

They are currently researching the issue of transgenics, focusing specifically on Agrochemical companies, such as Monsanto. They are working to develop research materials alongside an installation that addresses these issues and the ways that human health, ecological systems, and local economies have been affected by it.

Inspired and fascinated by the Mapuche cosmovision that represents time as a spiral (one that exists in 3-dimensional space, which every being is constantly moving between), Piper is working to undo their ideas of linear time through art-making and daily practices. Such as thinking. And writing. And talking about it.

Piper is learning how to metalwork, relief print, and weave on a floor loom. They journal every night, they love to ride their bike, and they frequently visit bodies of water.

email: psnowb@artic.edu

piper.snowber@gmail.com

CV

Piper Jane Wallace Snowber

Born 2005, Camarillo, California

Lives and studies in Chicago, Illinois

Education

2023-2027 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA expected

Exhibition

2023 Rio Mesa High School Annual IB HL Art Exhibit

2023 Alzheimer’s Association of Ventura County display

2024 Museum of Ventura County Scholarship Award Ceremony

2024 School of the Art Institute ArtBash

2025 Studio Channel Islands Art Center “Emergence” juried exhibition

2025 Studio Channel Islands Art Center “Trans/formed” exhibition and performance

2025 Watershed Art and Ecology “Under the Sun, As It Were”

Publication

2020 ThreeFaced Zine

2020 Writopia Covid-19 Poetry Anthology

2024 Skrew Magazine

2025 Studio Channel Islands Art Center “Emergence” Poetry Anthology

Awards

2022 Elks Lodge Most Valuable Student Scholarship

2023 Loma Vista 4-H Program Scholarship

2023 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Distinguished Scholars Scholarship

2023 International Baccalaureate Diploma Recipient

2023 Museum of Ventura County Bonita C. McFarland Scholarship

2025 Museum of Ventura County Scholarship

Professional Experience

2020 Wildbird Woodworks, Studio Apprentice

2021-Present ETRNL Clothing, Founder and Designer

2021-2023 Pesticide-Free Soil Project, Intern and Organizer

2023 Climate First: Replacing Oil and Gas, Community Outreach Intern

2024 Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Intern and Camp Counselor

2025 Embroidery Specialist at Lola and the Boys, Chicago

2025 (present) Teacher’s Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Contemporary Practices, Adult Continuing Education, and Multi-Arts Camp for children ages 8-9.

Collaborative Projects

2025 Rewired 2.0 with Endeavor Health, Chicago

2025 Quilt Church (Fall Cohort), Chicago

2025 Entanglements - class with Sarah Black. Under “Entangled Meal” header.