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Kearra Amaya Gopee - November 2024

Kearra Amaya Gopee (they/them) is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York). Using video, sculpture, sound, writing and other media, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. They live and work between Trinidad and Tobago and New York City.

Kearra Amaya Gopee (they/them) (b. 1994, Miami, FL) is an anti-disciplinary visual artist and facilitator from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York). Using video, sculpture, sound, writing, and other media, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. Their work has been exhibited at venues such as documenta15, The Kitchen, BAM, and at film festivals internationally. Previously, they have been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, the Leslie Lohman Museum, Queer|Art, the Global Fund for Women. From 2023-2024, they were an Elaine G. Weitzen ISP Studio Program Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 2024, they will be in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program as well as Headlands Center for the Arts. They have participated in residencies at Skowhegan, Red Bull Arts Detroit and NLS Kingston in Jamaica, among others. They have guest lectured at Emory University, Rutgers University, and the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture. They hold an MFA from UCLA with a concentration in Interdisciplinary Studio and a BFA in Photography and Imaging from New York University.

Visit Kearra’s website here.

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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.

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Bee Daniel - November 2024

Bee is a 35 year old trans woman with thick eyebrows and a big mouth. She helped found New Fruit, a studio space/venue/ print shop and collective in 2014 and was able to learn from and work alongside many renowned artists both local and national. Her graffiti past eventually lead her to learn sign painting and mural work. She has since installed large scale murals all over the country, both of her own works and the works of her peers.

Bee is a 35 year old trans woman with thick eyebrows and a big mouth. Born and raised in western Maine she moved to Portland at age 18, tried art school but went broke and quit to write graffiti and play in bands. She worked on art however and whenever she could, often times for quick money to stay afloat, but learned many different mediums as a result. She helped found New Fruit, a studio space/venue/ print shop and collective in 2014 and was able to learn from and work alongside many renowned artists both local and national. Her graffiti past eventually lead her to learn sign painting and mural work. She has since installed large scale murals all over the country, both of her own works and the works of her peers.

Visit Bee’s website here.