Threads of A Family with Chelsea Silbereis
Threads of A Family with Chelsea Silbereis
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, May 28th, 7 pm EDT
For Chelsea Silbereis, her art and parenting practices are intrinsically intertwined, which centers her values. Please join us for a dynamic conversation with Chelsea as she shares recent work that explores how it feels to be in a family and how inheritance can be like a breath of wind filtering through every aspect of our experience.
Chelsea is currently putting together a show that expresses and evokes the experience of being in a family—whether good or bad, born or invented, family is our foundational experience and is intrinsic to our humanity and how we show up in society at large. Together, we will explore the role of photography in family life.
Chelsea will also discuss how having a studio over the past three years as a Boston Center for the Arts resident has changed and broadened her practice and given her space to create more deeply–which, in turn, has helped her parent with deepening insight.
Chelsea Silbereis is a photographer exploring themes of family and domestic life, intimacy, and generational trauma living and working near Boston Ma. She works primarily in photographic series and handmade art books. Over the past year she has incorporated hand embroidery into her printed photos. Chelsea has had a non-traditional photography education including many internet-based photography workshops, having a photographer parent, and self-directed study of 20th century photographers.
Her photos have appeared in group exhibitions at The Curated Fridge, PhotoPlace Gallery and she is a current Boston Center for the Arts Resident.
Chelsea’s commissioned work involves embedding with families to document their real life with an unfiltered and heartfelt lens.
She lives with her husband, two kids, a dog and a cat in Belmont, MA and likes to imagine that the ghosts of pets past are also members of the household.
