A Conversation with artists Marcie Miller Gross and SHENEQUA
Please join us in welcoming sculptor
Marcie Miller Gross and textile artist and weaver
SHENEQUA for the first of two conversations held in conjunction with the exhibition
Unconventional: The Legacy of Joseph Beuys. Each artist will delve into their creative process and symbolic use of unconventional materials, such as felt and synthetic hair. They will also touch upon how their work aligns with the artistic practice of German sculptor, performer, and teacher Joseph Beuys.
Rebecca Dubay, Associate Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute, will facilitate the discussion.
The conversation will take place live on Zoom, Monday November 1st at 6:00 pm CDT. Registration is required; please use the link below.
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About the artists:
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Marcie Miller Gross makes site responsive objects, drawings and installations informed by the spatial and conceptual conditions of a place. Created through an intimate material connection, her cumulative works made of industrial felt reflect her interest in the traces of time and evidence of people on a place. Miller Gross has been the recipient of several prestigious awards such as the Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship and the MidAmerica/National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship, and GlogauAIR residency in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout the world including Tshinghua University, Bejing, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Miller Gross received a Master of Fine Arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and has held teaching appointments at Kansas City Art Institute and University of Kansas.
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SHENEQUA is an Artpreneur who received her Masters in Design for Fashion, Body & Garment at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under the mentorship of Nick Cave. Founder of Weave Your Dreams Into Reality Studios LLC. Her last solo exhibition,
Woven Narratives, was on view in 2019 at Haw Contemporary (Stockyards) in Kansas City, Missouri. She has exhibited her works in
Performing Labor at Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, CA,
The Space We Grow Into at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, and Mane N’ Tail at The Luminary in St. Louis, MO, to name a few. A Featured Artist for Ties that Bind in American Craft Magazine 2015 and the Kansas City Star in 2014. A Windgate Fellow of the Center for Craft in 2014, and the inaugural YoungArts Daniel Arsham Fellow in 2017-18, presented by the Ridinger-McLaughlin Family.
About the moderator:
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Rebecca Dubay is an art historian specializing in art from 1945 to the present. She is an associate professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 2018, she was honored with KCAI’s Excellence in Teaching Award. She earned a B.A. degree in art history and business management from the University of South Florida (summa cum laude), an M.A. degree in art history from Tufts University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the history of art from Bryn Mawr College.
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