Art From Here Virtual Studio Visit | Kasie Campbell
Art From Here
Milk Diaries, 2020.
What does art practice look like in the time of COVID-19? Edmonton-based arts organizations Latitude 53, Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, SNAP Gallery and the Mitchell Art Gallery recognize the importance of nurturing ongoing relationships with artists and within the arts community.
Through this collaborative project, Art From Here brings focus to artists who are making work, or thinking about how to make, or not make, work, for and in this unprecedented environment, addressing community, collaboration, isolation, anxiety, technology, pressures of productivity, illness and care.
Each Wednesday, Art From Here will showcase a new work or project by an Amiskwacîwâskahikan / Edmonton artist. This will culminate with a virtual studio visit with the artist the following Tuesday, where the community can engage with the artist and their work.
This project begins with Kasie Campbell, and her ongoing series Milk Diaries (2020), online now at artfromhere.ca.
"It almost feels like I have spent the past two years in isolation. I’ve been consistently trying to navigate my artistic practice through intense waves of grief over the loss of my mum, infertility/miscarriage, and a fear of mortality and dying. Things have shifted in the last 4 months, with added postpartum anxieties, healing associated with childbirth, obsessive tracking of my baby’s feeds, breastfeeding struggles and COVID-19."
The live studio visit with Kasie Campbell will take place on April 28,2020 at 6:30 PM. The link to access this will be posted on artfromhere.ca.
Thank you to the Edmonton Arts Council and the Edmonton Community Foundation for their support from the Digital Arts Fund, to pay artists and make this project possible.
Kasie Campbell is a visual artist working out of Edmonton, AB. In 2015, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB. Campbell’s work integrates a variety of media including sculpture, photography, and installation with performative means. Themes of the abject and simultaneous tensions surrounding the female body have been major points of interest in her work. Campbell has exhibited her work throughout Canada and internationally at Grounds for Sculpture (south of NYC), Mana Contemporary in Hamilton, NJ, Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL, New York City at the Westbeth Gallery and more recently, Viljandi, Estonia.
