STEVIE ADA KLAARK

STEVIE ADA KLAARK

works interdisciplinarily.

Sounds, site-specific sculpture, paintings, words, the body, and video – a flux of made and altered quasi-utilitarian objects and ephemeralities - which are used to construct associative culture and immersive spaces. Klaark spent much of their life traveling and carrying objects. She has come to associate those travels as encounters which result in the manifestation of personal daily rituals and she is interested in the ways that migratory objects take on the emotional, metaphysical, and psychic experience of a certain time and/or place. In a larger sense, Klaark relays how we can use certain culture and gestures to walk a line amongst the comic, the absurd, and the sublime and how this can be translated to the viewer through multimodality and phenomenological experience. They think of words like transience, hostship, stewardship, quasi-spiritual, leave-no-trace, and radical inclusivity when thinking of how collective space and land are intertwined and considered as places of reactivation and reclamation.

Klaark holds an MFA from Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) and a Post Baccalaureate from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. Their work has been featured in the Chicago Review | cover | , Bat City Review, Blue Mesa Review, Studio Visit Magazine, and on BOOOOOOOM!. Klaark has exhibited internationally at Biquini Wax EPS, Ciudad de México, México; Hús Hákarla Jörundar, Hrísey, Iceland; and Milk Glass Co., Toronto, ON, Canada. She has been artist-in-residence at Norðanbál Gamli Skóli, Hrísey, Iceland; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT; Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper, NY; and Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy, NY.

They presently are an Adjunct Professor at Minneapolis College (MCTC). Previously, they have been an Adjunct Professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), an Instructor at Cornell University, Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) in Ithaca, NY, and an Educator at Marwen in Chicago, IL. She has been a Visiting Artist at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, MD. Klaark is the recipient of the Midway Contemporary Art and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts Artist Relief Fund Grant (Minneapolis, MN); the Tagvverk Torf Grant (in association with Rhizome and the New Museum, New York, NY); and the Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellowship. She has been invited to ask questions for the BBC podcast World Book Club, has been interviewed by MPR News, and is presently writing for Walker Art Center, Mn Artists.

Klaark serves as a Steward for Mount Eden — an emerging healing space based in Los Angeles, CA. She is a Mentor for the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop in Saint Paul, MN. She serves as a Mentor for Seedling, a program offered by Crown Affair which is based out of New York, NY. They have been a participant in The People’s Forum - School of Art, Culture and Resistance and the Revolutionary Summer School in New York, NY. They are an Education Steward for Fireweed Community Woodshop in Minneapolis, MN.

She was born on unceded Apache and Navajo lands in 1988. Klaark presently lives and works on unceded Dakhóta and Anishinaabeg lands.

Their work is invested in the new future economy of care.

She is writing her first novel.