Camille Calegari (b. 2001) creates sculptural collages, detailed prints, and experimental folk instruments from found, gifted, discarded, and second-hand material. Using a combination of printmaking, folk art, and DIY techniques, they revive religious and family traditions of craft lost through assimilation and consumerism, rebuilding kinship with community, queerness, and the natural world.

Camille cobbles deconstructed Americana elements together in amalgams of trash, faggotry, folk art, nature, guilt, history, and radical self-creation, reflecting their own journey forging an identity in the crossroads of rural Christian fundamentalism and gentrified liberal urban sprawl. Their work depicts wild bodies and landscapes, memories of transgender childhood, forgotten queer history, Bible camp fever dreams, and the joys of bringing people together with art and music. They explore clashes between grief and healing, mass consumption and sustainability, and repression and freedom. 

By collaging trashed ephemera with natural materials and printed stories, Camille builds an anti-utopian visual language grounded in reality, challenging their audience to stop imagining the future and to start building one. They engage the viewer to forge and fight for their community, to rekindle their own culture that cannot be bought nor sold, to protect wild spaces, and to build homes within the bodies they grow into.  

Calegari received their BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025.

They currently live and work in the green and rolling hills of Capon Bridge, West Virginia.