Kim Sillen
Bio
Kim Sillen is an artist, activist and graphic designer who lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She is interested in the role art and design can play in influencing public policy by mobilizing communities.
Stories (3/0)
The Barn on Bolton Road
My family wasn’t rich but we had a roomy old house that my parents bought for next to nothing on one of Elmford’s nicest streets, so my classmates lumped me in with the wealthy kids. Our home had been a carriage house in the 1800s, for what had once been the manor house up the hill on Bolton Road, the dead-end street to the side of our corner lot.
By Kim Sillen3 years ago in Fiction
Capture the Flag
The summer program I went to after the seventh and eighth grades became fodder for my dreams way past late childhood when I had been a participant, right up until my adult years when I was trying to figure out what to do with my own kid for the month of July. It was billed as a pre-college program, the kind of thing that made my son shake his head and wonder out loud how I could be his mother. No, he did not want to do extra work for fun during his vacation, he let me know. I admit, I really had been excited about the courses I took on that old New England campus, but the biggest attraction wasn’t the academics, even though I got to do things like design and build model houses out of foam core in the architecture studio. The real draw was being set free on a college campus at the age of thirteen for three weeks without too much supervision.
By Kim Sillen3 years ago in Confessions
- Top Story - June 2021
TriangleTop Story - June 2021
I never planned on becoming a textile designer—even graphic design wasn’t on my radar—but I knew from the time I could hold a crayon that I was going to be an artist in some form or another. Sure, my childhood plan actually included being an art-making professional soccer player who also wrote books, but drawing and painting were always on the forefront of my mind. I didn’t realize until I grew up how much the textile prints of my childhood influenced my vision and color sensibilities, and more to the point, my outlook on the world, even.
By Kim Sillen3 years ago in Motivation
