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.

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

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.]