Location

Morgantown, WV

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West Virginia University Libraries

Library Website:

https://library.wvu.edu/

Blog or Personal/Professional Website:

https://sallyjanebrown.com/

LinkedIn URL:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallybrown8118/

About Me:

Sally Jane Brown is an artist, curator, and writer currently based in Morgantown. Her artwork including drawing, painting, and performance, explores womanhood, motherhood, and the body. She has exhibited her work in spaces nationally and in the UK. She has won two awards for illustration for Intimates and Fools and Leaves of Absence, both with poetry by Laura Madeline Wiseman. She also illustrated What We Do in the Hollows with poetry by Renée K. Nicholson. She has participated in artist residencies in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Buenos Aires. Her writing has been published in Hyperallergic, Women's Art Journal, and Panorama, among others. She has curated group shows in Omaha, Nashville, Pittsburgh, and Morgantown. She has been awarded several grants for her artistic and scholarly work, and presented at multiple national arts conferences. She holds a Bachelor of Arts-Studio Art, a Master of Public Administration, and a Master of Arts- Art History and Feminist Theory. She is a former member of the College Art Association National Committee on Women in the Arts, edited the online journal Les Femmes Folles, and currently serves as Curator for West Virginia University Libraries, Contributing Writer for the Borshch of Art Discover Database, and art editor for Thimble Literary Magazine.

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