Jean Bodies in the forest

Friends, as I continue to develop my series of Jean Bodies sculptures I have been exploring different environments with them. I have taken them to a beach previously, and now here is a forest. Enjoy!

Megan Prince Jean Body, Children live up to what you believe of them, in a forested environment, partially obstructed by ferns and shadow.

Environmental photo of Megan Prince’s Jean Body, Children live up to what you believe of them (2021, reclaimed and cut children’s denim, 9x17x46) in the forest at Schmitz Park Reserve, 2022.

Currently you can see my largest Jean Body, These are my people, these are my friends, at the NSC Art Gallery in Distilled: Contemporary Abstraction. This group show will be open November 14, 2022 – January 13, 2023.

Distilled: Contemporary Abstraction features These Are My People, These Are My Friends

I am please to announce that my Jean Body, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE, THESE ARE MY FRIENDS , will be featured in the group show Distilled: Contemporary Abstraction. I’m thrilled to be showing alongside such a great line up of abstract artists!

Installation of Megan Prince’s soft sculpture, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE, THESE ARE MY FRIENDS at Mini Mart City Park (Georgetown, Seattle, WA) 2022. Photo by Mark Woods.

Distilled: Contemporary Abstraction 

November 14, 2022 – January 13, 2023 

 

In the art world the word abstraction is slippery in its meaning and the category is large. There are many connotations. It presumes many different visions and ways of working all pulled out of the representational world and distinct. For this exhibition we look toward work that takes a concept to its core with a clarified aspect. But even in the included pieces by these seven artists there are many ways of working. For some it might be a considered simplification, the concept distilled to its essential parts, whittled down. For some they submerge themselves in a place or ingest a researched idea distilling it to its essential parts, iterating and perhaps reiterating it after much time circling the mind. For all of the included artists what you are seeing is an offering of something of the repeated trace of the original idea. Whether simple or complex in its aspect each is made with a highly considered touch or gesture, honed. 

 

 

Participating Artists: 

Lydia Bassis: www.lydiabassis.com 

Avantika Bawa: www.avantikabawa.net 

Susan Belau: susanbelau.com 

Sue Danielson: www.suedanielson.net 

Carole d’Inverno: www.caroledinverno.com 

Sara Osebold: www.soseboldart.com 

Megan Prince: www.meganprince.com 

Communities showing at Molly's Bottle Shop

Friends, my Communities will be available to visit hyper-locally in my community (!) at Molly’s Bottle Shop in West Seattle for the month of October. Come say hi during the West Seattle Art Walk on Thursday, October 13 from 5-late!

Polaris and Cassiopeia with Satellite, 2021, Gauche, oil pastel and graphite on Rives BFK paper, 44.5 x 63.25 in. (maple frame)

Polaris and Cassiopeia with Satellite, 2021, Gauche, oil pastel and graphite on Rives BFK paper, 44.5 x 63.25 in. (maple frame)

Now is the time.


Togetherness.


Love. 


Community. 


Solidarity.


Courage. 


Hope.



Ignore the lies and find the hope.

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.

During the early works in this series the artist intuitively placed the stars but as this series developed Prince was compelled to use real stars. For the later works Prince used a star app on her smart phone to take pictures of the current constellations overhead, which she then hand-plotted on to the paper, documenting the current time.

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. Prince’s work points to the similarities we all share and the intrinsic desire we have of being together.

"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth. This is the real message of love." - Thich Nhat Hanh

Megan Prince: Communities

Molly’s Bottle Shop - West Seattle

3278c California Ave SW
Seattle, WA, 98116

Come see my Jean Body in Carbon at The Vestibule

I am excited to announce my Jean Bodies sculpture, Banding Together in Our Humanity, is featured in the group show Carbon at The Vestibule!

Banding together in our humanity, 2021, donated and reclaimed cut denim jeans, 11x32x76in.

Exhibition Sept 8-Oct 16

Burning and screaming, trees, regenerating mushrooms, plastic and concrete recycled into skulls and melting icons, sunburnt skin – all appear in this group exhibition. The work raises awareness of carbon footprints, emissions, and cycles through material, form, and content. The exhibition includes installation, sculpture, ceramic, photography, video, and painting.


Artists

Colleen RJC Bratton, Dain Susman, Erin Kendig, frameRateZero, Il,, Jocelyn Beausire, Karey Kessler, Lauren Iida, Megan Prince, Melinda Hurst Frye, Peter Christenson, Robin Green, Sean Gallagher, Serrah Russell, Suze Woolf, Vanessa Lanza

Reception, this Saturday, September 10 from 6-8pm

Opening night performance at 7pm by Jocelyn Beausire. Beausire created a print that will decay over the exhibition. Through movement, she will memorialize the performance from: on, of which took place in the Atacama Desert.


The Vestibule 5919 15th Ave NW Seattle, WA 98107 Gallery hours: Thur 10-3, Fri 12-6, Sat 12-6

Jean Bodies & Friends Closing Reception this Saturday

Last week to see my solo exhibition, Jean Bodies and Friends, at Mini Mart City Park

CLOSING RECEPTION this Saturday, 8/13, from 12-6pm during Georgetown Art Attack!
FRIENDSHIP BRACELET WORKSHOP from 2-5pm, free and open to the public


See you there!
Bring a friend, make a friend, be a friend.

Stop motion WIP clip of Megan Prince’s Jean Bodies & Friends at Mini Mart City Park, 2022. Thanks to @sainteliss for the helping hands on this!

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 used jeans, cut up and hand knit together. Her material choice speaks to accessibility and inclusion of all people and being a steward of our world. Using donated jeans nods to the people who wore them and the community relationship of the donors. One of the most common items people wear is a jean. With a range of attributes Prince uses jeans as a vehicle to look at similarities and differences in communities. Donation is also an important part of her project creating relationship, empowering people, and inviting participation in the conversation while pointing to environmental impact. 

The Jean Bodies point to a variety of ways that we come together in this life as people. One aspect of these sculptures is how their shapes reference forms found in nature, including the scale of the human body. The titles for these sculptures are culled from a combination of life experiences, and combined with intimate feelings as well as my readings. In her Jean Body,  Banding together in our humanity, Prince is inspired by an interview of activist and UW runner, Rosalie Fish, who races with a red handprint on her face to raise awareness of violence against indigenous women.

Intimate and maybe a little sentimental, Prince’s Remnant Relationships are small to medium sized hand-woven soft sculptures. The use of remnant materials is a micro look at what relationships we consider as cast-offs in society. Frequently made from leftover pieces of cast-off or remnant materials, the works in this series range from lap to palm sized and are made from a variety of pliable materials such as cotton, plastic, vintage lace, and suede. Prince’s recent work, Waiting for another to make the words, is a direct reflection after the Uvalde shooting, on the countless past shootings of our most vulnerable people. The size of each piece is directly related to the quantity of material available.

Mini Mart City Park

Cleaning Earth with Art

at Ellis Ave S & S Warsaw St, Georgetown, Seattle, WA

Jean Bodies & Friends at MMCP this weekend and next!

My solo exhibition, Jean Bodies and Friends, is open at Mini Mart City Park!
Bring a friend, make a friend, be a friend.

Up this Saturday and next. See you there!

Installation of Megan Prince: Jean Bodies and Friends at Mini Mart City Park, 2022

August 8/6 12-5pm & 8/13 12-6pm
CLOSING RECEPTION on 8/13 with a FRIENDSHIP BRACELET WORKSHOP from 2-5pm, free and open to the public.

Jean Bodies and Friends

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 used jeans, cut up and hand knit together. Her material choice speaks to accessibility and inclusion of all people and being a steward of our world. Using donated jeans nods to the people who wore them and the community relationship of the donors. One of the most common items people wear is a jean. With a range of attributes Prince uses jeans as a vehicle to look at similarities and differences in communities. Donation is also an important part of her project creating relationship, empowering people, and inviting participation in the conversation while pointing to environmental impact. 

The Jean Bodies point to a variety of ways that we come together in this life as people. One aspect of these sculptures is how their shapes reference forms found in nature, including the scale of the human body. The titles for these sculptures are culled from a combination of life experiences, and combined with intimate feelings as well as my readings. In her Jean Body,  Banding together in our humanity, Prince is inspired by an interview of activist and UW runner, Rosalie Fish, who races with a red handprint on her face to raise awareness of violence against indigenous women.

Intimate and maybe a little sentimental, Prince’s Remnant Relationships are small to medium sized hand-woven soft sculptures. The use of remnant materials is a micro look at what relationships we consider as cast-offs in society. Frequently made from leftover pieces of cast-off or remnant materials, the works in this series range from lap to palm sized and are made from a variety of pliable materials such as cotton, plastic, vintage lace, and suede. Prince’s recent work, Waiting for another to make the words, is a direct reflection after the Uvalde shooting, on the countless past shootings of our most vulnerable people. The size of each piece is directly related to the quantity of material available.


Forest For The Trees opens today - see me in HOWL ON FLOOR 5!

This incredible and expansive building with 7 floors full of art is open and free to the public today through Sunday. Come catch one of my durational performances for Ruts of Repetition and chat with me!

More info below.

Megan Prince and Amy Funbuttons perform Ruts of Repetition with Prince’s installation Spinning Lines during HOWL on the fifth floor of Forest For The Trees at RailSpur, Seattle, WA. July 21-24, 2022.

Both transparent and solid, Spinning Lines, is a site-specific string installation addressing the circular nature of life while toeing the line between drawing and sculpture. Why is it that we make the same choices and walk the same paths? Sometimes we get stuck and forget we have a choice. The truth comes out in the saying "We are creatures of habit." The seemingly simplistic aesthetic evokes a personal search for each viewer leading toward introspection and our human tendency to repeat ourselves.

Ruts of Repetition (RoR) is a durational performance about the paths we form in our daily lives and how easily we form these patterns and get stuck in them. It takes three repetitions to make a habit but a life time to break one. Adding to my installation, Spinning Lines, RoR will grow and evolve over the next four days.


For HOWL I recreated my site-specific installation, Spinning Lines, with a community of non-binary and female-identifying people and allies. The corresponding durational performance Ruts of Repetition will happen daily. In addition there will be two performance events; during HOWL’S opening reception 7/21 from 5-9pm and closing the show 7/24 from 7-9pm featuring arealists Amy Funbuttons and Rebekah Bastian dancing suspended in the installation for the last hour or until collapse. Visit my videos and perofmance page for more information on Spinning Lines (including process videos). This summer is the 12 year anniversary of Spinning Lines and I am so excited to be revisiting it on the West Coast!


Shout out to our amazing co-collaborator and dancer @bryoncarr who after much hard work has sadly had to step back from this project because of complications with Covid. Thank you for your enthusiasm Bryon. Your willingness to adventure and ask questions with me has made all the difference. Without you this project wouldn’t be what it is, it will be different with out your dancing, but your hand is present though your body is not. Big hugs and healing to you friend!

Press for Howl with Forest For The Trees

It’s installation weekend for my site-specific work, Spinning Lines, which will be put together by a team of community volunteers this Saturday and Sunday! Installation for HOWL is underway as are all of these expansive exhibitions on all seven floors at the RailSpur location for Forest For The Trees.

Here are some of the artists, curators and organizers of Forest For The Trees, a multi-exhibition art event that will fill a newly renovated historic building in Pioneer Square with art and installations July 21-24. They include, from left, Dominic Nieri, Amanda Manitach, Christopher Derek Bruno, Julianne Johnson, Austin Bellamy Hicks, Moses Sun, Jordan West Monez, rubén garcía marrufo, Yuliya (Julia) Bruk, Lele Barnett, Joe Zaczyk, maximiliano, Erik Molano and Gage Hamilton. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Read this great article from The Seattle Times by Gayle Clemans and Erika Shultz

AND this great article from Crosscut

And this great article from NW Asian Weekly


Forest For The Trees runs next week.

Thursday, July 21 - Sunday, July 24

12noon to 9pm daily.

Things continue to pick up as we near the opening of the four day run of this huge group exhibition. I am incredibly honored to be included in HOWL by curators Lele Barnett and Amanda Manitach.
Find us on floor 5!


At RailSpur in Pioneer Square; 419 Occidental Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104
Free and open to the public, this event is 21+

Get your free tickets through Eventbrite and come join us!

Spinning Lines

Both transparent and solid, this site-specific string installation addresses the circular nature of life while toeing the line between drawing and sculpture. Why is it that we make the same choices and walk the same paths? Sometimes we get stuck and forget we have a choice. The truth comes out in the saying "We are creatures of habit." The seemingly simplistic aesthetic evokes a personal search for each viewer leading toward introspection and our human tendency to repeat ourselves.


For HOWL I'm recreating my site-specific installation, Spinning Lines, with a community of non-binary and female-identifying people and allies. The corresponding durational performance Ruts of Repetition, performed by Bryon Carr, will happen daily. In addition there will be three performance events; during HOWL’S opening reception 7/21 and closing the show 7/24 from 7-9pm featuring arealists Amy Funbuttons and Rebekah Bastian dancing suspended in the installation for the last hour or until collapse. Visit my videos and perofmance page for more information on Spinning Lines (including process videos and how to join the flash mob on Friday). This summer is the 12 year anniversary of Spinning Lines and I am so excited to be revisiting it on the West Coast!

Call for Spinning Lines Installation Volunteers

My site-specific installation Spinning Lines will be installed next weekend, Saturday 7/16 & Sunday 7/17. I'm looking for one additional volunteer for Saturday from 9am-12noon and Sunday from 12pm-4pm. Email me for more information!

Spinning Lines will be featured the following week in “Howl”, July 21-24. “Howl” will be on Floor 5 and is one part of Forest For The Trees, a massive satellite exhibit during the Seattle Art Fair with multiple floors of shows at @railspur.seattle organized by @ffttnw and @artxiv

Free and open to the public, noon-9pm each day. Get your tickets now! Fftt.eventbrite.com

Megan Prince: Spinning Lines site-specifice installation at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. 2010

Additionally I have been developing a durational dance performance, Ruts of Repetition, with Bryon Carr and Amy Funbuttons. The performance will be organically engaging the installation throughout the exhibition!

Check back here soon for planned performance times and other fun!

Multi-disciplinary work in development for next month!

Friends,

I’m excited to share that I have a new performance developing in conjunction with my installation Spinning Lines 2022. Ruts of Repetition, a durational dance performance, will engage my string installation emphasizing how we get stuck in repetitive patterns in life. I will be performing alongside, Bryon Carr and Amy Funbuttons! We will be stopping by at various times throughout the exhibition, including a couple of planned performances you won’t want to miss!

Here’s a sneak peak of the performance development:

Excerpt from #wip durational performance Ruts of Repetition by Megan Prince, Bryon Carr and Amy Funbuttons for Spinning Lines 2022 featured in Howl at Forest For The Trees this July 21-24.

This multi-disciplinary work will be featured in the l exhibition Howl, curated by Lele Barnett and Amanda Manitach, at Forest for the Trees, a satellite to the Seattle Art Fair with a 4 day block party. FREE! If you are interested in sponsoring or volunteering, 🙏 pls send me a message.

Howl is a survey of female-identifying and non-binary artists who work in large-scale material and voice. From hanging gardens to tensile textile walls, ephemeral text tracings to punk-poetic shout-outs, the exhibit encompasses a range of material expressions as elegant as they are aggressive, spanning the softly ecstatic to blunt-force unapologetic. 

Exhibited works include installations from both regional and national artists, and features reproductions of vital and viral images produced by the organization Shout Your Abortion. Across the works in this exhibit is a through-line where technical precision meets poetic expression, an offering of violent beauty that calls for response. 

The bittersweet march towards collective healing, progress, health, and survival lands on the ever-bending backs of these beasts of perpetual burden and power. May women rule the world.

Howl will run, July 21-24 from 12noon-9pm each day. Performance dates and times to come.

Spinning Lines 2022 next month!

Friends!

I’m excited to announce I’ll be recreating my site-specific piece Spinning Lines, complete with a new durational performance co-coreographed with the amazing Bryon Carr.

Join us July 21-24 for Howl, curated by Lele Barnett and Amanda Manitach, with Forest for the Trees.

Press Release below and more information to come!

FOREST FOR THE TREES

COMING UP
Seattle, July 21-24
The Railspur
419 Occidental Ave

FFTT believes that artists play a vital role in the cultural ecosystems from which they grow, and aims to protect and expand their reach amid an ever-changing environment. We will be partnering with an array of artists and organizations that share these values with their respective communities. Visitors will experience seven floors of immersive installations, large scale murals, group exhibitions and a 4-day block party in the historic brick alley. Our hope is to increase public accessibility and engagement with a diversity of work from emerging artists, both local and visiting. Participating exhibitions include Forest For The Trees, Gaspar Yanga, Void Projects, Howl curated by Lele Barnett & Amanda Manitach, Ancient As Time by Christopher Martin, and XO Seattle.

The Space 

419 Occidental Ave is part of the Railspur revitalization project by Urban Villages. It is a seven-story historic warehouse with an activated alley in the heart of Pioneer Square, 0.5 miles from the Seattle Art Fair at the Lumen Field Event Center.

More FFTT info here!

Communities on my website!

Hi Friends! The full series of my pandemic works, Communities, are here!

Now is the time.
Togetherness.
Love.
Community.
Solidarity.
Courage.
Hope.

Ignore the lies and find the hope.

Alderamin, Cepheus, and Nodus Secundus, 2021, Gauche, oil pastel and graphite on Rives paper, 20 x 26.5 inches

Alderamin, Cepheus, and Nodus Secundus, 2021, Gauche, oil pastel and graphite on Rives paper, 20 x 26.5 inches (unframed)

Megan Prince: Communities 2020 - 2021

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.

Listed under the “Art” tab starting today June 1, 2022; all 19 of the mixed media works on paper are listed here with the works that are already SOLD listed as NA. A few of the works from this series are framed (from my winter exhibition at the Kirkland Arts Center, Great Mysterious Heart), while the majority of the works are unframed. Please reach out to me with any inquires about adding one of my Communities to your own collection!

Thank you for your ongoing support,

Megan

"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth. This is the real message of love." - Thich Nhat Hanh

Jean Bodies & Friends at Mini Mart City Park summer 2022!

Announcing my upcoming exhibition at the recently opened and long awaited Mini Mart City Park this summer!

The exhibition will be open to the public Saturdays: July 30, Aug 6, and Aug 13.

With a closing reception on August 13 during Georgetown Art Attack.

Megan Prince, Jean Bodies installed at Alki Beach Park.

This July and August my Jean Bodies sculptures will be installed throughout Mini Mart City Park, in conjunction with selected wall works in the gallery space. With like-minded community and enviromental focus, I can’t think of a more perfect place for my Jean Bodies to be featured than MMCP!

Mini Mart City Park, 6525 Ellis Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98108

Mini Mart City Park is a community-focused project in the process of transforming a former gas station into a site-specific, pocket park and cultural center. There are over 700 derelict, gas stations in the Puget Sound region and over 200,000 nationwide. In 2005 it was our vision to identify and purchase one such property in King County and rehabilitate it, proving the potential of art to propel a project that simultaneously repairs damaged land while providing shared, multi-use cultural space.

MMCP is a project by the artist trio SuttonBeresCuller.

Don’t miss this opportunity to join the conversation; mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information as we get closer.

What remains...

What remains is we need hope, action, and time to heal.

Yesterday we had terribly heartbreaking news, again. This time about the shooting in Uvalde, TX where 19 fourth grade children and two teachers were shot and killed by a gunman after he shot his grandmother.

How do we find hope to move forward and heal when time shows that we keep repeating these same heartbreaking events?

When we stoop to pick up the pieces of what remains of the broken bodies of our children we see the truth, we need action. WE NEED ACTION. Only once we have action will we be able to heal. Without action we are just waiting for the next heartbreak to come upon us. Our children, who keep suffering, are waiting for us to take this action to protect them. Sometimes actions are beyond us but this one is very much attainable. We can not wait again for another heartbreak. Now is the time to act. Only then can our children begin to feel safe enough to heal and we all can move forward.

Crocheted fibers sculptures hanging from two thumbtacks on the dirty studio wall in the artist's studio.

Waiting for another to make the words, 2022, reclaimed bias materials, 13x14x7 inches

I made this piece after sitting in my studio reading about the shootings in Uvalde, TX, reflecting on the countless past shootings of our most vulnerable people, and crying for a while. Hope and rage combine into a powerful force. It was therapeutic for me to make, and feels like an important acknowledgment of where we are as a community. We can not sit by and wait for another to make the words for us. We need to make them. Or the shootings will continue. We need hope to be able to make steps forward into action and change. Only then can we find healing.

Call to Action:

Call or write your local representatives and ask them what they are doing to protect our most vulnerable people against gun violence.

Sign this petition to require universal background checks for gun sales.

Announcing my partnership with Prarie Underground, a local clothing manufacturer, which has started supplying me with remnant materials. One of my art practice philosophies is to be zero-waste and use reclaimed materials whenever possible in the creation of my works. With so much excess in our world, and in the US in particular, why would a creative person use new materials to create artworks unless absolutely necessary? As a result I strive to obtain materials by collection from partnerships with organizations and individuals to make my works which occasionally marries into a social practice element in my work. The materials in my above fibers sculpture, Waiting for another to make the words, are remnant bias received from them. A big thanks to Camilla at Prarie Underground for the support and materials donations!

[Image of Megan Prince fibers sculpture, Waiting for another to make the words, hanging from thumbtacks on the artist’s dirty studio wall. Title for artwork taken from Crazy Horse by Mari Sandoz.]

I'm stilll here and working!

Hi Friends,

It’s been a while since I have posted on here so I’m taking a minute to let you know that I’m still here.

I have a few ideas I’m hashing out with my artworks and I’m in the process of adding on all my Communities works on paper which all be officially for sale through on June 1!!! Please dm me with inquiries. Remember all my work is for sale unless otherwise marked (eg. Sold, Private Collection, etc.). So if you see something that you love and you’d like to have it to brighten your life don’t hesitate to reach out. I’m also editing this site in the interest of keeping the content current and fluid so come back soon to see what I have added and changed!


I have been posting a few different thoughts and iterations of my Love Paintings on my IG. Here is one with a corresponding poem:

Love’s Limits, 2022, hand-cut vinyl, 8.5 x 11.75 inches (This is a one of a kind, hand-cut vinyl sticker to be placed on any surface.)

Limitations
Life’s limits are held by love’s limits.
I love and accept my limitations if you let me.
I love and accept your limitations if you let me.
Without these limits,
What are the possibilities?
What are the other possibilities?
What are all of the possibilities?
We set the limits.
How much can we love each other?


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Much love to you all and thanks for the support!

Megan

What do the Jean Bodies titles mean?

In this video I introduce my exhibition, Great Mysterious Heart, and talk about my Jean Bodies sculpture, Banding together in our humanity (image below).

Banding together in our humanity, 2021, donated and reclaimed cut denim jeans, 11x32x76in.

My soft sculpture series, Jean Bodies, points to a variety of ways that we come together in this life as people. One aspect of these sculptures is how their shapes reference forms found in nature, including the scale of the human body. The titles for these sculptures are culled from a combination of life experiences, and combined with intimate feelings as well as my reading.

The title for this piece, Banding together in our humanity, is inspired an interview by activist and UW runner, Rosalie Fish, who races with a red hand print on her face to raise awareness of violence against indigenous women. Learn more about Fish in this article.

For further information about my exhibition, Great Mysterious Heart, visit the exhibition catalogue; dive deeper into my Jean Bodies sculptures here; or join my Patreon for personal videos and in-depth writings and to support my art practice.

Thank you for the wonderful 6 weeks of Great Mysterious Heart!

You, my community, have given me so much love and support over these past few weeks.

The poetic installation of my solo show Great Mysterious Heart, at the Kirkland Arts Center, was beautiful and meaningful. Our closing reception on Friday, 2/11, was increadibly lovely and I enjoyed speaking with you all about the exhibition.

Thank you to all of you who made the journey to come out and see the show in person, your questions about the work, sending me notes and voiced encouragement from near and far. And thank you to my husband Theo, and kids, for being flexible and understanding as things were a little different than normal these past few weeks.

Thank you J. Gordon for your vision of this exhibition from the start, your long drives to West Seattle for studio visits with the bridge down, as well as your thoughtful curation and installation of Great Mysterious Heart. Ellen McGivern thank you for jumping right in with both feet, just when you started at KAC, sharing your expertise, encouragement, and the lovely artist interview. To the rest of the team at the Kirkland Arts Center, thank you for your support and flexibility in sharing the beautiful space and community that is KAC. This has been an amazing opportunity to share my works with our community here in Seattle and I am grateful to you all.

It’s been an absolute pleasure to share my Jean Bodies and Communities with you all!

Megan Prince, Installation view of Great Mysterious Heart at the Kirkland Arts Center, 2022. Photo by Mark Woods

See the exhibition images, videos here, here, here, and here, and read my artist interview.