Brandi Martin Yu

Teaching Artist

Brandi is a veteran of numerous CAW in-school, out-of-school time, and youth employment programs. She teaches painting, drawing, print-making, sculpture, mixed media, animation, and diorama construction. She is a graduate of The Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Visual Arts. Brandi’s installations and sculptures bring physicality to text and research to poetry. Her sculptural work uses text as physical manipulatives, making language malleable and its ownership up for grabs. She exhibits both in the US and abroad. Her recent site-specific residencies were in Bulgaria; Detroit; and Gettysburg. The Bridgeguard Residency (funded by the Štefan and Viera Frühauf Endowment Fund) spanned the Mária Valéria Bridge between Štúrovo, Slovakia, and Esztergom, Hungary. She lives in Brooklyn.