Kerri-Lynn Reeves

This audio is from our virtual studio visit with artist Kerri-Lynn Reeves in conversation with Jenny Western, and was originally recorded on June 23, 2022 over Zoom. About Kerri-Lynn Kerri-Lynn Reeves (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator,  and mother originally from rural Manitoba, where she grew up as a  European-Canadian settler on Treaty 2 land. At the heart of it, her work  explores the relationship of the social and the material through the  use of spatial, relational, and craft practices. With a commitment to  blurring the lines between life and art, Reeves earned her Master of Fine Arts - Studio Arts in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia  University in 2016 with her first child strapped to her chest. Reeves, now a mother / step-mother of four, continues to explore the confluences  of her art making, teaching, and parenting practices. Reeves is a  tenure-track Assistant Professor in Studio Arts at MacEwan University in  Edmonton, AB, ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Treaty 6 Territory. About Jenny Jenny Western is an artist, writer, and curator based in Winnipeg,  Manitoba. She holds an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Winnipeg and a Masters in Art History and Curatorial  Practice from York University in Toronto. While completing her graduate studies, she accepted a position at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon where she held the position of Curator and later  became the AGSM’s Adjunct Curator. Western has curated exhibitions and  programs across Canada and she makes up one-third of the Sobey Award  nominated art collective The Ephemerals. Western is of European, Oneida, and Stockbridge-Musee descent and a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation of Wisconsin.