Krystle Brown (b. 1989, she/her/they/them) is a multimedia artist based in Boston, MA, who explores the connections between family history, placemaking, class, and power structures. They hold a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Painting and Art History and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. While studying at SMFA at Tufts, Brown was awarded the Montague Travel grant to research in Northern Ireland and was awarded the Katherine Romero Graduating Student Award. In addition, Brown has received other grants and awards such as The Boston Opportunity Fund in 2021 and Best in Show-Silver Key at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in 2020. Brown has curated several exhibitions, including co-curating the Webster Court Project in Newton, MA. She has been an artist-in-residence at Lazuli Residency in Corinth, VT, 77 Art in Rutland, VT, and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. In 2019 they started the Emerging Artist Fellowship at Kingston Gallery in Boston and exhibited their first solo exhibition, “15,000 Days” in March of 2021 as a part of their tenure.
As an Artist-in-Residence at Urbano Project, Krystle will lead “Calling Home,” a Community Art Project exploring autobiographical storytelling, intergenerational exchange, installation art, and sound. Participants will collaborate to create a digitally-interactive, public installation at a defunct phone booth in Boston, featuring the audio-recorded voices and stories of participants and community members, and an accompanying “phone book” publication sharing other artwork created by participants over the course of the project.
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