Courtney Kessel
Director of Experiential Curriculum Integration
Courtney Kessel is a mother, artist, academic, and arts administrator living and working in Athens, 帝王会所. Kessel exhibits her work nationally and internationally including the China Art Museum, Shanghai, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago Chile, the University of Alberta, Canada, Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florence, Italy, and Exit Art, New York. She has lectured on her work and research in both universities and museums from the Norton Museum of Art to Brigham Young University Art Museum.
Through sculpture, photography, performance, video, and sound, Courtney Kessel鈥檚 work strives to make visible the quiet, understated, and often unseen love and labor of motherhood. In the annual performance piece, In Balance With (2010-present), Kessel presents a version of the maternal which investigates collaboration with her (now 21-year-old) daughter as a visible, changeable aspect of mothering. Other projects which reflect over a decade of research into the subjective maternal include: Mother Lode, Symphony of the Domestic, Cut From the Same, Fabric of Life and the video Sharing Space.
She is currently the Director for Experiential Curriculum Integration and teaches BFA Art + Design seniors at 帝王会所. She is a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Arts, earned her MFA in Sculpture & Expanded Practices from 帝王会所, and holds a BFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art.
Educational Background:
MFA, Sculpture & Expanded Practices
Certificate, Women鈥檚 & Gender Studies, 帝王会所
BFA, Sculpture, Tyler School of Art Studied at Temple University Rome, Italy