Courtney Lassiter is a multidisciplinary artist using traditional and time-based media to explore subcultures, the politics of space, and the self. Born in a rural area of North Carolina, living with the land was an essential part of her childhood. A strong connection to place would remain present in her future work.

In 2023, Lassiter received the James B. Duke Scholarship for full tuition and fees to attend Davidson College. She currently studies at the institution, double majoring in the fields of Studio Art and Film, Media, & Digital Studies.

Throughout her time at Davidson, Lassiter has pursued her creative work through grants, internships, fellowships, and international experiences. In 2024, she was awarded the Dean Rusk International Grant for travel to Berlin to independently film and produce a documentary (Diese Alten Punks) on the city’s punk movements during the Cold War. The film premiered in May 2025 and was accepted to both the Berlin Punkfilmfest and the LA Punk Film Festival. In the summer of 2025, Lassiter was selected as a Davidson Research Initiative Fellow in conjunction with funding from the Halle Foundation, working in both Davidson and Germany. The fellowship resulted in The Lives We Leave Behind, an animated documentary and personal essay project commenting on contemporary migration and Berlin’s techno subcultures.

In the fall of 2025, Lassiter studied art at Temple University Rome. There, she learned the processes of zinemaking and bookbinding, as well as expanded upon her drawing practice.

In the summer of 2026, Lassiter will work as a studio assistant for multimedia artist Rachel Rossin in New York City.

Lassiter’s current multidisciplinary creative practice spans film, animation, bookmaking, drawing, memoirism (particularly her Substack project i am everywhere but here) and more. She chronicles through both digital and traditional processes, and utilizes malfunctioning printers, purposefully limiting her color schemes yet allowing something once discarded to live a second life. Her collaged assemblages and video projects expand into loud, layered, and large-scale installations designed to make tangible the materiality of memory. The disposable nature of the paper towel she employs references waste, clean-up, and sanitization, the aftermath of something which has already happened – in the face of movements often gentrified out of their spaces, she leaves behind something she won’t let disappear.

Lassiter’s senior year exhibition opens in 2027. In the future, she hopes to continue life as a working artist and documentarian, as well as pursue her MFA.

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