SPRING ARTIST PRESENTATION: KELLYANN MARIE

Where: Home ReSource
When: 12-1:00pm

Join us on Weds, April 22, for an artist presentation and conversation with Open AIR's Spring Artist-in-Residence KellyAnn Marie. All are welcome. Snacks will be provided. Let us know if you'll be joining us with the optional registration form: Form link is coming soon


ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Kellyann Marie is a queer transient responding to poverty and seeking a life in the in-between by creating pockets of home, through community, and through honoring the ephemera found there. By celebrating the second hand (second hand in that there is a proverbial hand to hold in objects from having been held), they work to connect queer life-art-home-godliness. They embrace oversharing and tenderness to honor the handmade skills that make life in poverty possible. The resulting work is paintings and textiles layered with personal narrative, meeting functional objects glorious in their usefulness –always centering the mark of the hand (to be thankful to have hands and that they would be so sweet as to leave a kiss on everything they might touch).

They are currently completing a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, hold an SSHRC-funded MFA from Memorial University of Newfoundland, a BFA from Florida State University, have presented at the University Arts Association of Canada (UAAC), and have exhibited nationally and internationally.