To Understand a Tree Book Signing with Gina Siepel
January 19 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free
To Understand a Tree Book Signing with Gina Siepel | Sun. January 19, 2025 | 3:00 – 5:00 pm ET | In-person
On January 19, 2025, the Museum for Art in Wood will host a special book signing event with interdisciplinary artist, designer, and woodworker Gina Siepel. During the event, visitors can meet Gina and have their copy of the book To Understand a Tree, the full-color catalogue for the exhibition that ran from March – July 2024. To Understand a Tree is a multi-disciplinary project that focuses on the dignity of a living tree, its network of eco-systemic relationships, and the ubiquity of the material of wood in design and daily life. The publication includes writings, commentary, and images of the exhibition works and installation. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Gina Siepel.
Click HERE to preorder the book.
To Understand a Tree is an ongoing project conducted by Gina Siepel. It is hosted by the Arts Afield program at the MacLeish Field Station of Smith College, where Siepel is an artist-in-residence.
About Gina Siepel
Portrait of Gina Siepel
Gina Siepel (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and woodworker. Their artistic practice reflects an engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology, and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina’s objects, installations, drawings, videos, and other works link aesthetic and materially based modes of artistic production to other forms of inquiry, including collaboration, social engagement, site-based exploration, and research.
Gina’s works have been shown in museums and galleries nationally, including the Colby Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Museum for Art in Wood, Vox Populi Gallery, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and Amherst College. Gina holds a BFA from the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase and an MFA from the Maine College of Art, and has taught at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and currently teaches in the Massachusetts College of Art and Design MFA program. Gina is also currently a MacLeish Field Station Artist-in-Residence at Smith College, and a 2023 recipient of a Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft. She is currently enrolled in the Field Naturalist Certification Program at Mass Audubon, and is a member of the Greenfield Tree Committee, a volunteer urban forestry organization in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
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