Invasive subverts the negative characterization of invasive species and uses queer kudzu as a demonstrative tool of visibility, strength, and tenacity in the face of presumed “unwantedness”.

Aaron McIntosh grew up in Kingsport, TN, a factory town in the Appalachian foothills of East Tennessee. A fourth-generation quilter, his family’s working class environment and domestic material culture figure large in his art practice. McIntosh’s education includes a BFA from the Appalachian Center for Craft and a MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. His exhibition record includes numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Queer Threads: Crafting Identity & Community at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art in New York, and most recently Man-Made: Contemporary Male Quilters at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. His work has been published in the LA Weekly, ArtNews, the Houston Chronicle, American Craft magazine, FiberArts, and the Surface Design Journal. His essay, “Parallel Closets”, was published in the April 2014 edition of the Brooklyn Rail. McIntosh currently lives in Baltimore, MD, and teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art as a Professor in the Fiber Department.

2015 Windgate Fellowship Project Grant Artist Talks, February 26, 6pm at The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design

Interested in learning more about the artist? Visit Aaron McIntosh's websites:
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aaronmcintosh.com
invasivequeerkudzu.com

This program is supported by The Windgate Charitable Foundation.