Reilly Blum (b. 1998, Atlanta) is a Providence and Atlanta-based artist with a penchant for archival and observational research. Through her creative practice, which spans furniture-making, patchwork quilting, writing, time-based media, and curriculum design, she explores how objects can act as agents of memory. Reilly aims to study public agencies' influence over individual and cultural recollection. She is particularly interested in the policies that drive cultural preservation surrounding heritage crafts, architectural heritage sites, and protected landscapes, such as national parks. Her creative process allows her to investigate what she perceives as a disregard for the transitional landscapes that form the boundaries of these spaces. Through her work, she sheds light on the limitations of human development by exploring what happens when infrastructure starts to fray, architecture fails, nature reclaims territory, amnesia sets in, and the change from one state of being to another begins. Reilly cites Interstate 20, flash floods, and kudzu, three omnipresent features of Atlanta’s landscape, as core influences on her studio work. Reilly earned her BFA in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2021.