Website updates!

It’s been a busy summer and as we go into fall I have finally found some time to make some updates on my website! Take a while to look around! You’ll find exhibitions updates, including several gorgeous pictures of recent installations, RRSRR5 and Expanding Horizion, plus my new works on paper series, Shadow Maps, which are available for purchase.

Check ‘em out!

AND save the date: Seattle Center Sculpture Walk 2025: Artist Tour at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA - October 21, meet in the Poetry Garden at 9am This event is FREE and open to the public!

Prince with her work, Shifting Ribbons, RRSRR5, in the Poetry Garden at Seattle Center for the 2025 Sculpture Walk, Seattle, WA. Photo by Steven Miller.

"Shifting Ribbons (RRSRR5)" in the Poetry Garden at Seattle Center

I’m excited to announce a new public work!

Ratchet straps, once tools of tension and compression, are transformed into flowing, lyrical forms that evoke rock strata, tree limbs, or ribbons of wind.  Building upon previous versions of this artwork for Seattle Center, this fifth iteration softens and deepens the original sculptural gesture, leaning into the poetics of restraint.  The addition of poetry—directly inscribed into the materials—extends an invitation: to pause, reflect, receive, and be curious. 

Prince with her installation “Shifting Ribbons (RRSRR5)” in the Poetry Garden at Seattle Center, for the 2025 Sculpture Walk. Seattle, WA 2025

Prince developed a series of poems reflecting on rest, reuse, and the quiet beauty of paring back—of holding what remains and embracing the fleeting rhythms of daily life.

Inscribed on ratchet straps in black and white paint marker and hand-worked into the sculpture, these poems create moments of curiosity and reflection woven directly into the form.

Rooted in the strength of salvaged materials and the endurance of memory, the work offers a gentle invitation to slow down, look closely, and find contentment in what endures. It shifts the focus from accumulation to appreciation, encouraging viewers to honor what is already here: the frayed, the mended, and the still-strong.


Shifting Ribbons will be up through November 2025.

This project was commissioned by the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture.

I'm officially a participant in Seattle Restored!

“I’m thrilled to be selected as an official participant in @SeattleRestored! This program is bringing back the heartbeat of our city by hosting pop-ups and art installations throughout Seattle. Visit SeattleRestored.org to learn when and where you can visit ours!”

UPDATE: This program is under new management through Shunpike and is now titled “Artist Residencies and Storefronts.”

See my window installation “Expanding Horizon” at 1403 4th Ave, Seattle, WA Now through January 2026!

March Jean Body Engagement!

I’m excited to announce I will be holding a Jean Body Engagement at Method Gallery.

Jean Body Engagements feature the continuation of Megan Prince’s Jean Bodies in which completed sculptures will be on view and a work in progress will be developed in a public engagement component in the designated space. Event attendees are invited to participate; bringing jean donations to the location and in the process of tying them together, creating one sculpture as a relic of real community and space for conversation around what reuse can look like in daily life. (details below)

Too often belonging and community become exclusive based on personal abilities, experiences and circumstances, in this instance the ability to see one's work. Throughout the Jean Body Engagements community members (residents, workers and visitors) are invited to participate in a variety of ways as they are able. Attending community members will be encouraged to take part in the engagements by showing up, holding conversation, bringing jean donations, touching and interacting with the in-process sculpture(s) and also by joining in the process of tying pre-cut used jean material together with me at each event. Each community member in attendance will be given a demonstration on the handworking technique and be invited to sit and create with the material to their ability and/or as they see fit. There will be two Method volunteers assisting in working with all community members during this event to ensure they feel comfortable doing this work with the end goal that the communities naturally come together, in pairs or small groups, handbuilding with the materials and having conversation about what it means to “see” the work. In this way creating artwork as relics of community in real time and holding space for conversation around belonging. Participants will leave truly belonging to the Jean Body Community and taking with them the important knowledge that they are not alone.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Method Gallery: 106 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA

Sunday, March 23 from 2-6pm

Reception and Artist Talk on February 13 at 4:30pm

Join us for a reception and artist talk celebrating Prince’s recent public installation Tied, Together! This installation features two of Prince’s large-scale works: Red Ratchet Strap Remnant Relationship in it’s fourth iteration RRSRR4 alongside Princes multi-phase work Tying/Untying, Phase Three.

Megan Prince: Tied, Together

Reception at 4:30pm on Thursday, February 13

Artist Talk at 4:45pm

Port of Seattle, Pier 69, 2711 Alaskan Way

Detail of Prince’s installation Tied, Together at Port of Seattle, Pier 69, Seattle, WA

ARCADE: Weaving a New Kind of Seattle Art Fair

Hello friends!

I am glad to share ARCADE has written a feature article about my Jean Body Engagement with Method Gallery during the Seattle Art Fair this summer 2024. The article is included in the fall issue of the quarterly digital design magazine. Read the article here and check out the other amazing articles on the local art scene.

Prince talks with a visitor in her booth with Method Gallery at the Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA 2024. Photo by J. Troff

Join the next Jean Body Engagement at Mini Mart City Park on Friday, October 18th from 4-8pm.

Breaking News! I'm to be the first pilot artist for the new AIR program at MMCP!

I'm ecstatic to announce I'll be returning to Mini Mart City Park as one of the first artists in residence! Stay tuned for all the fun, and plenty of sneak peaks, on Instagram as I pilot this new program at MMCP this fall and explore all it offers. I'll be there throughout October and November.

Two things you can start looking forward to while I'm there: I'll be holding my next "Jean Bodies Engagement" and have an on-site dropbox for used jean donations as part of my time there. More to come!

Installation view of Megan Prince’s exhibition Jean Bodies and Friends at Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA 2022. Photo by Mark Woods.

Seattle Art Fair with Method 7/25-28

 I am pleased to share Method Gallery will feature the continuation of my Jean Bodies Project at Seattle Art Fair THIS WEEK. Visit us in booth D13!

Kicking off a new iteration, my Jean Bodies will be on view and I will be on-site further developing works in progress in a public engagement component in the booth. Seattle Art Fair attendees are invited to participate; bring your jean donations to booth D13 and join the process of tying them together with me at various points throughout the fair. Together we will create sculptures as relics of real communities and hold space for conversation around what reuse can look like in daily life.

Detail of Children live up to what you believe of them, 2021, reclaimed and cut children’s denim, 9x17x46 inches

Opening Evening for VIP and Fair Pass Holders

Thursday, July 25: 6—9pm

 

All Public Days
Friday, July 26: 11am—7pm
Saturday, July 27: 11am—7pm
Sunday, July 28: 11am—6pm

 

Lumen Field Event Center 800 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, WA 98134

Chrysalis with Method Gallery, 6/15 from 6-10pm

Read on for all the dates and info on where to find me and my work!

June 15th promises to be an amazing evening. CHRYSALIS will be a vibrant showcase of METHOD Gallery’s mission, featuring an evening of art, fashion, performance, and dancing. I’m excited to, once again, be working with METHOD Gallery, exhibiting and pushing the boundaries in my work. In addition to showing a curated selection of artworks, I am creating some wearable pieces for the fashion show. Tickets are pay-what-you-can and it’s sure to be fun! (Get your tickets here)

CHRYSALIS

Saturday, June 15th @ 6-11PM

Europa Gallery

401 2nd Ave South

Seattle, WA 98104

Embodiment group show at AMcE Creative Arts

I am happy to announce my participation in Embodiment, a group show at AMcE Creative Arts! I’ll be sharing a selection of my Communities in this exhibition.

Community #29, 2021, Gauche, oil pastel and graphite on Rives paper, 22 5/8 x 29 in. (framed) Photo Mark Woods

AMcE Creative Arts is pleased to present Embodiment – a group show of works that touch on memory and history

May 18 – June 30, 2024

The works in Embodiment contend with personal and collective histories, relationships, and memory. Through varying media, the six featured artists reflect on the past’s influence on our present modalities and whether it offers confluence or opposition. Our human connection to the intricacies of external and internal systems and environments are also considered. The work’s elements and imagery serve as puzzle pieces of a bigger picture perspective.


Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 5p – 7p

Saturday, June 8, 3p: Curatorial walk through and an afternoon of artist talks with Alfred Harris, Rachel Maxi, Megan Prince, and Cara Tomlinson.

Sunday, June 30, 3p – 5p: AMcE’s third anniversary celebration and closing reception for Embodiment

Out of the Box: METHOD Silent Auction & Gala 

My contribution for Method Gallery “Out of the Box” is made out of the box.

What happens when you give an artist that likes to use reclaimed materials a specific material? They use it. I applied time and fire with woodworking tools and finished with tung oil. My piece “Time Burns Away” is part of my current series “1,000 Paintings of Love” and available for bidding online 12/2 and viewing at Method during First Thursday and at the Gala.

Learn more. Check it out. Get your tix.

Artist Talk with Ellen McGivern 10/20

Hi Friends!

Here’s a link to my Artist Talk about my durational work Tying/Untying and my closing exhibition Build Time at Prairie Underground. Enjoy and thanks to all that made it out!

Prince and McGivern chat about Prince’s exhibition Build Time and the end of Tying/Untying. Prairie Underground, Seattle, WA 2023.

BELIEVE WOMEN

It is with a heavy heart that I share my final performance hours for phase two of “Tying/Untying” happened Thursday, July 27, from 4-7pm. This final performance was done in solidarity with women.

Believe Women; Women: if you think or feel strange about something, TRUST YOURSELF.

“Tying/Untying” echos the frustration and reward of working together. Performance materials and costume generously donated by @prairieunderground

Prince performs Phase Two of Tying/Untying in a window front on 5th Avenue and Pike Street for XO23 at the Coliseum Theater, Seattle, WA, 2023. Photo Elisa Huerta-Enochian

XO23 has closed early due to recent developments in the leadership of the XO community, all of the exhibition events are cancelled going forward. Visit my IG @meganprinceart for more information.