Gabrielle Severson

I am currently focused on creating as much art as possible and experiment, explore, and play with ceramics. I am interested in pursing a MFA and having the opportunity to teach or potentially curate artwork. I am an emerging artist willing to experiment and push myself as needed. I want to learn as much as possible from other artists, curators, and people in the art community to help further their and my goals.

My professional work experience is limited since my schooling and being an artist have been my significant priority in my life. I now require experience within a professional environment with other creators who can give me insights into the processes that make up a body of work. I am reliable, enthusiastic and eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail, and excellent art skills. I am motivated to learn, grow, excel, and get experience to help me become an artist in the world.

Gabby is focused on creating works that show the fractures, seams, and connections between her identity of being Native American and White. By using traditional Indigenous practices passed down through her family, she intends to weave those materials and techniques within her own art practice that centers around using accessible craft mediums. Interested in making her own traditions she takes inspiration from her familial ties, heritage, and displacement. By using ceramics, manufactured craft materials, textiles, and natural materials native to her tribe, she plays with the mixing of mediums and mixing of cultures/crafts. By literally weaving these materials together using traditional Indigenous practices she wants to point out the importance of reclaiming, repairing, and reframing the ways in which Native American practices and arts can live in a modern world. Her work also displays the struggles of trying to question and blur together those broken bonds of identity. She is interested in exploring what it means to reclaim something and even ways when its not possible to reclaim. She asks herself are their parts of her heritage that are reclaimable or parts of her culture that can adapt into new traditions for the future.

I am an active enrolled member of the Confederated Tribe of the Siletz Indians