Seeing Remnants in Life at The Kirkland Library

My large-scale installation, Seeing Remnants in Life, is up NOW through March 30, 2023 the Kirkland Library in partnership with The Kirkland Arts Center! In support of my art installation I am offering four different FREE public engagements over the duration of the show. Our first event is just around the corner:

Meet the Artist: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 6pm. I will be in conversation with Associate Curator and Gallery Program Manager of the Kirkland Art Center, Ellen McGivern about Seeing Remnants in Life. (Registration is requested, but not required.) Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.

Installation of Megan Prince’s Seeing Remnants in Life at The Kirkland Library, Kirkland, WA 2023.

Seeing Remnants in Life, consists of Impermanent (red Sharpie on photography seamless, 80x105 inches, 2022), and Red Ratchet Strap Remnant Relationship (RRSRR, reclaimed red ratchet straps, 92x339 inches, 2023) a reconfigurable multi-component fibers sculpture. Impermanent is the largest work in my 1,000 Paintings of Love series, each unique piece points to the individuality and importance of each of us in this life. RRSRR, from my Remnant Relationship series, uses remnant materials as a micro look at what we consider as cast-offs in society; a vehicle to think about what we consider unusable or garbage.

Additional Events for Seeing Remnants in Life:

Studio Visit: Sunday, February 19, 2023 from 2-4pm at the Kirkland Library.

Virtual Book Club: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 from 6-7pm; join us on Instagram LIVE. We will be discussing Circe by Miller, Madeline Check my companion book list for an insight into what inspires me!

Friendship Bracelet Workshop: Sunday, March 19, 2023 from 1-3pm at the Kirkland Library (Registration is requested, but not required.)


This project is supported, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.

Reworked

Reworked: Lee Davignon and Megan Prince, January 12 - Feb 11 at The Vestibule
Reception Saturday, Jan 14 4-6 pm

Tying/Untying Performance Hours: weekly on Thursdays from 5-7pm and Saturdays from 2-4pm watch Timelapse footage from my performances here.

Press release for Reworked at The Vestibule.

Lee Davignon and Megan Prince rework textile and plastic into sculpture and installations. In her participatory, durational performance, Tying/Untying, Prince invites visitors to knot a mass of reused textile while she attempts to unknot it and remake it into a sculpture. The project echoes the frustration and reward of working with others.

Davignon, a weaver by training, unmakes material while keeping its history of use. They unwind marine rope, ball hair, break up plastic packaging, and then they reweave or resculpt it until it is almost unrecognizable. They model how art-making ought to be aware of its material history and material future.

Fiber Art Now Meet-Up Fri Jan 13 6-8 pm

Materials donated by Prarie Underground.

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)

Life on Venus Magazine featuring my Jean Bodies sculptures is available for purchase.


This issue of UK Magazine, Life on Venus, is a conversation exploring the topic of sustainable fashion. We explore work from over 30 illustrators, photographers, poets, journalists and designers.

We look at 'Slow Fashion from the Other Side of Europe', we ask 'Is Fast Fashion a Feminist Issue' and explore if sustainability is a mental construct. It doesn't end there so join the conversation today with your own copy.

Pick up your copy here!

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EVERY DAY LOOK AT THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU WITH DIGNITY featured in Life on Venus Magazine!

Hi Friends,

My art practice, and specifically my Jean Bodies sculpture EVERY DAY LOOK AT THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU WITH DIGNITY, will be featured in an upcoming print addition of Life on Venus magazine exploring Sustainable Fashion. Life on Venus is a conversational magazine who aims to influence positive change by having open conversations.

As many of you know, I have been working on a series of textile sculptures, titled Jean Bodies, made from reclaimed jeans. The reuse of used denim jeans in my project speaks directly to sustainable fashion. People all over the world wear jeans and the style of jeans shifts every season causing them to be cast aside for the new style generating huge amounts of waste.

EVERY DAY LOOK AT THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU WITH DIGNITY, 2018, donated and cut denim jeans, 4x36x150

EVERY DAY LOOK AT THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU WITH DIGNITY, 2018, donated and cut denim jeans, 4x36x150

Stay tuned for the print. In the meantime you can check out the magazine and what they are doing here. You can also check out their instagram and facebook. Enjoy!