Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – movement

Ginger Krebs

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – movement
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011, 2015

Ginger Krebs's performances use precise, systematic choreography, dry humor and perceptual disorientation to address forms of empire and colonization, surveillance technology and image-driven culture. Her work has been presented work recently in Chicago at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sullivan Galleries, Bert Green Fine Art, Sector 2337, the Cultural Center, Loyola University, The Arts Club of Chicago, and the Chicago Artists Coalition.

At MacDowell, she worked on material for a performance, installation, and series of works on paper that address the impact of speed on bodies and ecologies.

Studios

Nef

Ginger Krebs worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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