Press for my installation Seeing Remnants in Life, my recent performance Tying/Untying and Soft Touch!

Recent mentions in The Seattle Times and Crosscut! (Click the links to read the articles.) It was fun to be out of town and find a copy of the article on Buy Nothing in the Sunday Seattle Times with a reproduction of my Jean Body sculpture, You’ve Been On My Mind! There something about being with something physically, holding it in your hands, that makes it feel real.


Virtual Book Club this Wednesday, March 1 from 6-7pm; join us on Instagram LIVE. Ellen McGivern and I will be discussing Circe by Madeline Miller. Check my companion book list for an insight into what inspires me! If you haven’t been to the Kirkland Library yet to see my installation, Seeing Remnants in Life, make sure you head over this month! It’s open through March 30.

Remnants are the leftovers in life. Frequently seen as invaluable and discarded. Remnants can be powerful when given a voice or even our attention. Choosing to notice and acknowledge what we throw away can inform what we take in. I ask myself what have I discarded recently and wasted without need? What do I take for granted, as a given? If I put in a little effort can I make that remnant a desired whole again? Reestablishing its value? Or give new life?

Megan Prince: Seeing Remnants in Life, featuring two large-scale works, is up now through March 30, 2023 the Kirkland Library, KCLS in partnership with The Kirkland Arts Center. This project is also supported, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.

Megan Prince: Great Mysterious Heart featured in Cliff Notes from Variable West

Variable West Founder Amelia Rina picks the most exciting events and exhibitions on the West Coast.
Each pick includes a question meant to act as a prompt for thinking about the art, artist, or exhibition.

What Rina says:

Textile arts have a natural affinity with narrative and the idiosyncrasies of relationships. In these sculptural textile works, Megan Prince weaves together conversations about interpersonal relationships, environmental impact, and the generative act of reuse. Made of hand-knit, donated second hand denim jeans, the "Jean Bodies" create literal and figurative connections between the jeans' original owners. Installed in the gallery space, they transform yet again into playful soft sculptures that invite interaction. Reflection: What stories do your clothes hold?

Megan Prince’s Jean Bodies at Alki Beach Park, Seattle, 2021.

Megan Prince: Great Mysterious Heart is featured alongside shows featuring artists Sofía Córdova and Gina M. Contreras.

Great Mysterious Heart: Megan Prince
Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
January 7 - February 12

Sofía Córdova: dawn_chorusiii: the fruit they don’t have here | 破曉歌聲 iii: 這裏沒有的水果 | coro_del_alba iii: la fruta que no tienen aquí
Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
December 3, 2021 - January 29, 2022

Modern Folk
Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
January 22 - February 19

Megan Prince: Great Mysterious Heart

My exhibition, Great Mysterious Heart, featuring my Jean Bodies and Communities is open!

Great Mysterious Heart (installation picture), 2022

Great Mysterious Heart (installation picture), 2022

Megan Prince: Great Mysterious Heart, January 7 through February 12, 2022.

Artist Gallery Hours: From 12-2pm, Saturday, January 8 and Saturday, January 15. Stop by and say hi!

At the Kirkland Arts Center, Gallery hours are Wednesdays-Fridays 12pm to 6pm and Saturdays 12pm - 4pm

Artist Talk and Closing Reception: Friday, February 11, 2022 (tentative)

Great Mysterious Heart opens in one month!

Friends,

I’m so excited about my upcoming solo exhibition, Great Mysterious Heart, at the Kirkland Arts Center!

This exhibition will feature a selection of both my Jean Bodies sculptures and Communities works on paper. Below is my artist statement for the show:

Great Mysterious Heart

Relationships compel interdisciplinary abstract artist Megan Prince to create; relationships between people, to belongings, and to the earth. We are all tied together by relationship. Her work points to the similarities we all share and the intrinsic desire we have of being together.

Prince’s floor sculptures, Jean Bodies, are constructed from donated worn jeans, cut up and hand knit together. Jeans are the vehicle used to look at similarities and differences in communities. The process of donation creates the relational element, inviting and empowering people to participate in the conversation to examine their relationships to their community and belongings, as well as consider the environmental impact.

With the works on paper, Communities, Prince explores aloneness, solidarity and togetherness. In Communities, the artist plots soft graphite stars on the mixed media works behind organic black forms in oil pastel, signifying our immediate people groups, and semi-circles of blue gouache, representing our earth. Each element points to levels of togetherness; we are not only in community with each other, but connected across our world and in the larger universe too.

Community #18, 20” x 26.5”, oil pastel, gouache and graphite on Rives cotton paper, 2021

You’ve Been on My Mind, 10x38x100, donated and reclaimed cut denim jeans, 2021

(This image is from a recent field trip I took my Jean Bodies sculptures on to Alki Beach Park in West Seattle.)

My show opens one month from today, January 7th, 2022 and will be open through February 12. As I mentioned before we won’t be able to announce the closing reception until closer to the date so keep your eyes peeled for that, plus I’ll be announcing artist gallery hours soon.

Gallery Hours are Thursday & Friday 12 pm – 6 pm, Saturday 12 pm – 4 pm

Kirkland Arts Center is located at 620 Market St., Kirkland, WA 98033.

Great Mysterious Heart

I am excited to share the dates for my upcoming solo exhibition at the Kirkland Arts Center this January 2022:

The exhibition dates are January 7 through February 12, 2022.

THESE ARE MY PEOPLE, THESE ARE MY FRIENDS (exhibition view from Interdependence at KAC), 2020, donated and reclaimed cut denim jeans, 8x156x60

I look forward to seeing you there! - Megan

These Are My People, These Are My Friends at the Kirkland Art Center!

Hi Friends,

I am pleased to announce that my Jean Bodies sculpture, These Are My People, These Are My Friends, has been selected for the upcoming exhibition Interdependence at the Kirkland Art Center.

As of right now there are no plans for a reception. If vaccinations continue as planned and the CDC begins to allow for larger gatherings there may be a closing event. I will update here if that happens so check back for more information.

Interdependence Exhibition Dates: May 27 - July 31st, 2021

These Are My People, These Are My Friends, 2020, reclaimed and cut denim, 8x156x60

These Are My People, These Are My Friends, 2020, reclaimed and cut denim, 8x156x60

In the meantime if you are on the east side stop by and see my sculpture in the exhibition. If you would like to meet up socially distanced at the exhibition drop me a line. The Kirkland Art Center is adhering to CDC protocol so make sure you wear a mask when you visit. I look forward to hearing from you!

Jean Bodies Update

Dear Friends,

I am accepting donations for my soft sculptures, Jean Bodies. Did you know it takes around 80 pairs of jeans for me to make each of these large sculptures? That’s a lot of jeans.

I have been collecting used denim in all colors in collaboration with individuals for the past several years. Before the pandemic this year, I had begun speeding up the collection process by purchasing jeans from stores like Goodwill but stopped due to the Covid-19 outbreak. I still don’t feel safe resuming my shopping and your collaboration in forwarding this project would be helpful. The jeans can be in any shape, including rips or stains. If you are unable to launder before you donate please let me know. No donation is too small.

I especially need black and gray tone jeans currently for two sculptures that are currently in process.

I keep a running list of my donors/collaborators for this project. I plan to share the donor list when I exhibit these pieces. I would love to add your name to the list, however if you prefer to not be publicly included let me know when you donate. This list of donors speaks to the community of people making these sculptures possible.

If you would like to donate jeans please email me through my contact page.

Thank you for supporting this project.

THESE ARE MY PEOPLE, THESE ARE MY FRIENDS (DETAIL), 2020, reclaimed and cut denim, 8x156x60

THESE ARE MY PEOPLE, THESE ARE MY FRIENDS (DETAIL), 2020, reclaimed and cut denim, 8x156x60