MARY ANN PETERS

Dates of residency: April till May 2016
Year of Birth: 1949
Nationality: American
Lives and Works: Seattle, Washington
Education: 
1977 MFA University of Washington, Seattle
1971 BA University of California, Santa Barbara
Selected Shows
2019 Traveler, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2019 the map is not the territory, Portland Art Museum triennial, Portland
2017 slipstream, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2016 impossible monument (nothing but the memory), Oxbow, Seattle

THE ARTIST
Mary Ann Peters is a multi-disciplined artist who makes socially and conceptually responsive work tied to the Middle East. As a second generation Arab American she uses this generational distancing to understand, interpret and highlight dismissed or undermined diaspora narratives. Her work is research driven and employs painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. She has been a practicing artist and an artist activist for 40 years. Her awards include a Camargo Fellowship in Cassis, France in 2017, the Stranger Genius Award in Visual Art in 2015, an Art Matters Foundation research grant in 2013, the MacDowell Colony Pollock/Krasner Fellowship in 2011 among others. She is a founder of COCA (Center on Contemporary Art), a current On the Boards board member, and former board member and president of NCFE (National Campaign for Freedom of Expression). 

THE RESIDENCY
Peters is an American artist of Arab descent noted for her studio work, installations, public art projects and arts activism. At BAR she explored ideas for her installation series titled "impossible monuments" which includes drawings, notes, maquettes and paintings.