Spirit Sensing: Anima of the Quarry

Kyle Browne is a conceptual artist, cultural producer and educator based in Boston, MA. Her work is multi-dimensional, exploring layers of embodied consciousness, wisdom from the natural world and the archetypal wildness that she believes is within us all. She draws from her vivid dreams, energetic and spiritual practices, natural wonders, ecological philosophy, magical realism and the feminine. She works without constructs of material limitations to allow her concepts full expression - this includes drawing, mixed media, social practice, site-specific installations, sculpture and performance.

Browne has been awarded 7 solo shows and over 40 group shows, multiple grants from Mass Cultural Council and selected for 2 international artist residencies in New Zealand, plus 3-fully funded residencies in partnership with national forests and non-profit organizations. She has exhibited at and worked with a number of institutions including The Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lesley University, Aratoi: Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, New Zealand, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, Boston University and The Pacific Northwest College of Art. Recent group exhibitions include Every Women Biennial at La Mama Galleria, NYC; CONTINUUM: Cape Ann Sculpture Today at Manship Artist Residency and Studios, Gloucester, MA; Lot Lab, Now + There, Boston, MA; and a solo-show Seaworthy Seductions: A Taste of Intimacy at Spencer Lofts Gallery in Chelsea, MA. Browne has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, an MEd from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA and a BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She is a professor at Massachusetts College of Art + Design, advises on creative community engagement with local communities and guides art and nature hikes for youth.

Collaborator: Stan Strickland

Singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor, Stan Strickland has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. . He has performed with the Boston Pops, the Village People, Aretha Franklin, and jazz greats Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Shirley Scott and Marlena Shaw, and opened for Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Natalie Cole and The Bare Naked Ladies.Stan is an associate professor of voice at Berklee College of Music and executive co-director of Express Yourself, a multi-cultural arts agency that serves mentally ill youth through the Department of Mental Health. He received a MA degree from Lesley University in Expressive Arts Therapy with a major in dance therapy.He has performed and worked many modern dance companies including members of the Alvin Ailey, Jose Limon, and Bill T Jones companies and Dance Collective of Boston. His one-man show "Coming Up For Air, An Auto-Jazzography", tells the story of his near-death experience swimming in Hawaii and received the prestigious Eliot Norton Award in theatre for best solo performance. He is also the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from Northeastern \University and Salem State University.