Gina Siepel - November 2024

Gina Siepel (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and woodworker, based in Greenfield MA . Their artistic practice reflects an engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology, and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina’s works have been shown in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum for Art in Wood, the Colby Museum, the DeCordova Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and Amherst College. Gina has been a fellow or artist-in-residence at Skowhegan, Hewnoaks, the Winterthur Museum, the Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Space, and Mildred’s Lane. She was a 2023 recipient of a Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft, and has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, and the Northampton Arts Council. Gina holds a BFA from the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase and an MFA from the Maine College of Art, and has taught at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Gina is currently a MacLeish Field Station Artist-in-Residence at Smith College.

Visit Gina’s website here.