Margaret Garrett

Margaret Garrett is an interdisciplinary American artist. Her artistic practice includes painting, printmaking, collage, and video work. Born in North Carolina and raised in Pennsylvania, she grew up training to be a dancer and went on to dance with the Pennsylvania and Cleveland Ballet companies. In her early twenties, she discovered painting, finding something spiritually akin to dance in the movement of line and color and switched her focus to visual art. In 2017, Garrett returned to dancing to inspire new works: She began filming herself dancing and using video clips as material to create moving video collages. Garrett’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States, including Planthouse, Danese/Corey, the FLAG Art Foundation, Birnam Wood, and the Parrish Art Museum.

Garrett’s residency at The Church will focus on creating four choreographed ritual dances performed by community volunteers, and artworks relating to these dances and movements.