bio
Born and raised in Ventura County, California, Piper Snowber is a Senior attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a Distinguished Scholars Scholarship. Piper is a fiber and sculpture artist, working across disciplines that blur the lines between body, land, material, and memory. Piper has exhibited work at Banaras Cultural Foundation in Varanasi, India, Watershed Art and Ecology in Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, the Museum of Ventura County, and Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo, California. They have been involved with various environmental justice organizations, including the Pesticide Free Soil Project and Climate First Replacing Oil and Gas (CFROG), as well as community gardens and small-scale farms. They are currently working as an intern at Narrow Bridge Arts Club in Chicago, IL.
statement
This is a practice that is situated within the geologic continuum, amongst the waterways that carry dye runoff, beneath the hooves of sheep whose wool I weave. I dwell in the interstitial space between land and body – where time is palimpsestic, and space is porous. I allow soil to speak where memory slips. This is a practice that is concerned with operating within a network connected to, and reciprocal of, all of the life that surrounds it: what has come before and what is continuously unfolding.
contact
piper.snowber@gmail.com