Kerri-Lynn Reeves

At the heart of it, Reeve’s work explores the relationship of the social and the material using spatial, relational, and craft practices. She is interested in what theorist Edward W. Soja calls Thirdspace – a theory that builds off the work of bell hooks which looks at how physical spaces encompass spatiality, historicity, and sociality. She extends this ‘thirdedness’ to our material existence – we are bodies, minds, and spirits without divide. The materials items that we interact with fulfill, foster, and further our ‘thirdedness’. Through Kerri-Lynn’s art, she is trying to create a space of support that acknowledges us all as intersectional beings with personal obligations, needs, desires, and spirits. | Contemporary art, sculpture, craft, feminist practices, socially-engaged art, fibres and material practices

Kerri-Lynn Reeves is Interim Department Chair | Associate Professor at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include At the heart of it, Reeve’s work explores the relationship of the social and the material using spatial, relational, and craft practices. She is interested in what theorist Edward W. Soja calls Thirdspace – a theory that builds off the work of bell hooks which looks at how physical spaces encompass spatiality, historicity, and sociality. She extends this ‘thirdedness’ to our material existence – we are bodies, minds, and spirits without divide. The materials items that we interact with fulfill, foster, and further our ‘thirdedness’. Through Kerri-Lynn’s art, she is trying to create a space of support that acknowledges us all as intersectional beings with personal obligations, needs, desires,. This summary considered all 2 collected sources.