Nicholas Cladis
Nicholas Cladis is an artist working in Iowa City, IA and a 2025-26 Iowa Artist Fellow. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Fukui Prefectural University (Japan), and has been a visiting artist at several other universities, non-profits, and craft schools worldwide. Nicholas’ work incorporates site-responsive / experimental installation, community engagement, and an attention to — and appreciation of — craft in a contemporary fine arts context. To Nicholas, the empowering, uplifting, and transformational act of making paper by hand generates essential connective points to history (time), community (people), and ecology (place).
A former Japan Foundation Fellow and resident of Japan, Nicholas maintains an active relationship with the Echizen paper-making community in Fukui Prefecture. This relationship has inspired an array of cross-cultural arts exchanges, exhibitions, and workshops.
IG: @nicholascladis
Web: nicholascladis.com