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Hyla Willis is a founding member of subRosa, a feminist art collective. She has exhibited, performed and held workshops in Europe, Asia, Australia and throughout North America. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and teaches media arts at Robert Morris University. In her work and teaching, Willis uses the cultural and political economies of graphic design, creative experimentation, and acoustic ecology. Along with Faith Wilding, Hyla Willis has been a core member of subRosa. While subRosa started with a feminist critique of art and marketing it's performative and transdisciplinary practice has expanded to include biotech and bio-political feminist issues. In 2002, they won a Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields. In 2014, she was named Artist of the Year by Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Her show, titled “America’s Least Livable City and Other Works" referenced the famous ranking in 1985 when Pittsburgh was named America’s most livable city by Rand McNally, her hometown, Yuba City, Calif., was ranked least livable city on the list.