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Carol Burch-Brown’s artistic practice includes videography, drawing, book-arts, and photography. Her work has documentary elements, engaging gender, religion, science, history, and sexuality.
She has solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, including the Drawing Center, Dorsky Gallery, and Bertha Urdang in New York and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Her documentary project, "It’s Reigning Queens in Appalachia", about an obscure gay bar in the West Virginia Mountains, is in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American History. ‘Trailers’, Burch-Brown’s photographic book with essayist/poet David Rigsbee was published by the University of Virginia Press. She recently completed a commissioned video documentary on adopting special-needs children in southwest Virginia.
Burch-Brown is a musician, with collaborative performances at La MaMa Theater and Duke Theater in New York, Emory, Cal Arts, and University of El Salvador. Her collaborators include performers of Alternate R.O.O.T.S., an organization of southeastern activist artists.
Burch-Brown is Professor of Art and a member of the Digital Arts Research Collective at Virginia Tech. She received an MFA from the University of Chicago. |
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