Kelsey Wishik
Degree(s)
- Class of 2021
Kelsey Wishik hails from the Gulf of Mexico marshlands of Southern Mississippi. Growing up immersed into nature, her creative practices emerged intuitively through creating real and imagined dialogues with the world around her through exploring the natural landscapes and resources. Over time, this exploration turned into a curiosity for global cultural traditions involving nature as a technology, higher power, and object-making as a rite of passage and way to initiate a deeper life connection. Pairing a modernist approach to composing, she also utilizes cross-cultural dialogues through art, movement, and music as resources. Her practice explores themes of consciousness, shared identity, travel, and transformation. Through sculpture, two dimensional works, music, and movement, she seeks to discover the diverse capacities of creativity as a unifying language and form of responsive intelligence. Her works have been featured internationally in solo and group exhibitions as well as at the National Museum for Women in the Art.
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