Jose Cotto
Jose Cotto is an interdisciplinary artist and designer from Great Brook Valley. His creative practice explores relationships between people, place, and time – often integrating poetry, fabrication, architectural design, mark-making, and lens-based media. Cotto’s work has been featured by Paper Monuments, Prospect New Orleans, ASHE, Newcomb Art Museum, Antenna Gallery, and the Contemporary Art Center. He earned a Masters of Architecture from Tulane University and BFA in Design + Architecture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Cotto is a Salzburg Global Seminar Cultural Innovators Fellow and was an Artist In Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center and A Studio in the Woods. Prior to joining Utile as Director of Community Engagement + Design Justice, he was part of the team at the Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane University’s School of Architecture.