AARON MCINTOSH, FIBERS CLUB VISITING ARTIST, Public Lecture at Leadership Auditorium, Monday, March 14th, 5:00PM-6:00PM, and Public INVASIVE Workshops, Monday, March 14th and Tuesday, March 15th.

Invasive, a project for Southern queers and their allies, subverts the negative characterization of invasive species and uses queer kudzu as a symbol of visibility, strength and tenacity in the face of presumed “unwantedness”.  Traveling across the Southern states, the project will facilitate the collection of stories of LGBTQ people through workshops at community centers and historical documents from archives. Drawing on the preeminence of quilting in Southern folkways and the work of creator Aaron McIntosh, the artist will embed these stories, photographs, and archive documents into quilted leaves and vines. Eventually forming an overwhelming and undeniable mass of Southern queerness, the kudzu will be exhibited at art centers and public events across the Southeast.

http://invasivequeerkudzu.com/

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Monday, March 14th

INVASIVE Workshop at the Fibers Studio 11:00AM-2:00PM

Bingham Hall, 902 S College Ave, Columbia MO 65211

Lecture at Leadership Auditorium 5:00PM-6:00PM

2202 MU Student Center, Columbia, MO 65211

Tuesday, March 15th

INVASIVE Workshop at the Fibers Studio 8:00AM-11:00AM

Bingham Hall, 902 S College Ave, Columbia MO 65211

INVASIVE Workshop at the at the Craft Studio 11:30AM-1:30PM

518 Hitt Street, N12 Memorial Union, Columbia, Mo 65211

INVASIVE Workshop at LGBTQ Resource Center 3:00PM-5:00PM

MU LGBTQ Center G225 MU Student Center Columbia, MO 65211

Aaron McIntosh (b. 1984) grew up in Kingsport, TN, a factory town in the Appalachian foothills of East Tennessee. A fourth-generation quilter, his family’s working class environment and domestic material culture figure large in his art practice. McIntosh’s education includes a BFA from the Appalachian Center for Craft and a MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. His exhibition record includes numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Queer Threads: Crafting Identity & Community at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art in New York, and most recently Man-Made: Contemporary Male Quilters at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. His work has been published in the LA Weekly, ArtNews, the Houston Chronicle, American Craft magazine, FiberArts, and the Surface Design Journal. His essay, “Parallel Closets”, was published in the April 2014 edition of the Brooklyn Rail. McIntosh currently lives in Baltimore, MD, and teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art as a Professor in the Fiber Department.

www.aaronmcintosh.com