Professor Carol Burch-Brown
Professor Carol Burch-Brown,
MFA, University of Chicago
Carol Burch-Brown’s artistic practice includes videography, drawing, book-arts, photography, and performance-based work with visual and music dimensions. Much of her art incorporates documentary elements, investigating issues in gender, science, and history. Her current work is an inter-media and interdisciplinary arts project about Charles Darwin and evolution, entitled Singing Darwin.
She has had over 200 solo and group exhibitions, performances, and video screenings throughout the United States and Canada, including the Drawing Center, Dorsky Gallery, and Bertha Urdang Gallery in New York. "It’s Reigning Queens in Appalachia", a documentary project about an obscure gay bar in the West Virginia Appalachians, is in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Burch-Brown’s photographic book, Trailers, with essayist/poet David Rigsbee, was published by the University Press of Virginia. She recently completed a video documentary on special-needs adoption in southwest Virginia that has received wide circulation in the social services field. She is a member of the Digital Art Research Collective and collaborated in creating “Revo:oveR” for the opening of the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke.
Burch-Brown is also a musician, with collaborative appearances at La MaMa Theater, Duke Theater, and Symphony Space in New York; Emory University; Cal Arts; and the Millennium Stage Series at the Kennedy Center. She collaborates in Atlanta with performers of Alternate R.O.O.T.S., an organization of southeastern activist artists. Most recently she has collaborated at Virginia Tech with Ico Bukvic and Ann Kilkelly on an interactive piece for presentation at the 2009 SEAMUS Conference (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States).