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yellow  textile art weaving made from plastic bags and recycled materials

SOLO EXHIBITS
2025 (forthcoming)
Portraits in Plastic, SEEK Raleigh, Raleigh, NC

2024
Threads of Change, Warin Lab Contemporary Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
You’re Not Really Seeing This, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL *2-person exhibit

2023
Loom & Doom, Marathon Center for the Performing Arts, Findlay, OH

2022
Loom & Doom, Langley Arts Council, BC, Canada 
Loom & Doom, East Lubbock Art House, East Lubbock, TX 
Loom & Doom, Chenango Arts Council, Norwich, NY 

2021 
Losing Ground: Endangered Plants of Michigan, Michigan State University Herbarium, East Lansing, MI

2020

UPSIDE DOWN/DOWNSIDE UP, Turchin Center, Boone, NC

2019
Cambodian Marine Life, Nature Discovery Center, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Cambodia Elephants, Nature Discovery Center, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Plastic Project, Nature Discovery Center, Siem Reap, Cambodia

2018
Birds of Cambodia, Nature Discovery Center, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Tree of Life, Nature Discovery Center, Siem Reap, Cambodia
The Elephantine in the Anthropocene: A Global Timeline of Human-Elephant Relations, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC

2017
From Bangkok to Boone, Looking Glass Gallery, Boone, NC

GROUP EXHIBITS
2025 (forthcoming)
Found & Formed, Pullen Art Center, Raleigh, NC

2024
Rift Drift, Khon Kaen, Thailand (forthcoming)
Crafting Appalachia, Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA
Blue Ridge Fiber Guild Annual Show, Jones House Cultural Center, Boone, NC
Earth First, Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA
Art Worms Showcase, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2022
ArtPrize, Gerald Ford Presidential Library, Grand Rapids, MI
1.5 Degrees Celsius, Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, MI

2021
Our Changing Climate, Huron Valley Council of Arts, Huron, MI
Biophilia: Love of Life, E.E. Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 
ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI 
Utopaphobia, The Green Exchange, Chicago, IL

2020

#postmarked, Crafting the Future
All Animal Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery Online
Catalyst, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
What are You Voting for?, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2015
Chicago Local Artists Show, Uptown, Chicago, IL
Everything but the Kitchen Sink, Chicago, IL

2014
Annual Print Show, Devries Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI

2013
SACI Spring Semester Show, Florence, Italy
All in House, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI
Art Prize, Grand Rapids, MI
Annual Student Show, DeVries Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI
Lost and Found, Vine Center Neighborhood Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI
Re/Trans, Frostic School of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
Print | Works, DeVries Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI
Space and Everything, Frostic School of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
Women in Art, DeVries Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI
WMU Student Art Show, DeVries Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI

CURATORIAL WORK
2025 (Forthcoming)
Mekong Voices: Eco-Artivism Against Ecocide, Michigan State University Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan

2018
Creative Democracy: The Legacy of Black Mountain College, Turchin Center, Boone, NC

2017
Collective Vigilance: Speaking for The New River, Turchin Center, Boone, NC

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red and orange textile art weaving made from plastic bags and recycled materials

education

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EDUCATION

2019-present
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Anthropology; Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

2018
Master of Arts (M.A.) Sustainability and the Arts; Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina

2013
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Studio Art; Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

COLLECTIONS

Her work is held in a variety of private and public collections, including Kuiburi Bring Home the Elephant, Michigan State University, and Grand Valley State University.

MEMBERSHIP

Blue Ridge Fiber Guild (USA)

ART WORMS-Mekong Artist Collective (Thailand)

RESIDENCIES

2024
Edgewood Cottage, Blowing Rock, North Carolina

2014
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

REPRESENTATION

Wagner is represented by Warin Lab Contemporary in Bangkok, Thailand.