bodycrumbs with Ally Christmas
/bodycrumbs with Ally Christmas
Wednesday, February 21st, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
As we move deeper into Between Bodies, we are excited for a multidimensional conversation with Ally Christmas about artmaking as a process of healing. Ally’s intricate, ritualistic images ask questions about how our experience of embodiment changes based on environmental and sociocultural factors. Ally will share how the cyclical process of filling and emptying guides her work.
Ally will be sharing work from /bodycrumbs, a project that weaves together self, body, and image with experiences of chronic pain and anxiety. The ritualistic processes of image construction, weaving, and embroidering are integral to the transformation of the artmaking process into one of intense personal healing. The images from this project bring together cyanotypes, fiber arts, photography, and moving image to create a nuanced project with multiple layers.
Ally Christmas is a visual artist currently living and working out of Shepherdstown, WV. Much of her work revolves around notions of selfhood, healing rituals, and lived experience, and her hybrid practice involves a number of forms including digital video, still photography, tintypes, palladium prints, bookmaking, gifs, cinemagraphs, and installation. Her work has been shown at a wide variety of venues, including bitforms gallery and Soho Photo Gallery in New York City; aCinema’s aDifferent Festival in Milwaukee; ATHICA in Athens, GA; Millepiani in Rome, Italy; Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, GA; the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO; and the Alternative Film Festival in Toronto. In 2018, Christmas received her MFA in Photo/Video from the University of Georgia, after which she spent two years teaching video art and photography courses at Grinnell College as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Video and New Media. She is currently teaching lens-based media as the coordinator of the BFA Photo Program at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia (USA).
