Open AIR Presentation: Kellyanne Marie, Artist

An artist presentation and conversation with Open AIR's Spring Artist-in-Residence Kellyann Marie. All are welcome. Snacks will be provided.
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).