EDUCATION
2014 MFA Visual Art, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA
1998 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
1991 M.S. Clinical Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
1988 B.A. Psychology/Visual Art, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
STATEMENT
My art work examines the ways in which people honor or do not honor nonhuman animals following their deaths. While companion animals are frequently grieved and honored, those that we depend on for food and other products are rarely recognized. With a few noteworthy exceptions, the deaths of farm animals, laboratory animals and wild animals go virtually unnoticed. What makes one species worthy of honoring and another unworthy? What implications do our values and judgements about nonhumans have for humanity? I explore these issues through photography, sculpture and interactive projects.
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
2019 Monument or anti-monument? Reflections on the creation of a monument for animals we do not mourn. Project presentation at the 4th Biennial Living with Animals Conference at Eastern Kentucky University.
2018 Remembering Animals: Rituals, Artifacts and Narratives Surrounding Animal Death. The Art Galleries of California State University at Northridge. Group exhibition February 10- March 24, http://www.rememberinganimals.art/
2017 The Unmourned. Photo essay published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture,
Volume 40, pages 101-106.
2017 A Monument for Animals We Do Not Mourn. Project presentation at the 3rd Biennial Living with Animals Conference at Eastern Kentucky University, March 2017.
2017 The Unmourned, poem and six photographs in Margo DeMello (Ed.) Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death, Michigan State University Press.
2016 Art Educator, Downtown Arts District, Orlando, FL. Development and coordination of monthly educational workshops and monthly gallery exhibitions for the Young Artists Group, ages 15-21, in the Orlando, Florida area. Funded by Artegon Marketplace (12 months).
2016 Creativity Grant awarded by the Culture and Animals Foundation for continued support of project entitled: Monument to Animals We Do Not Mourn
2015 Creativity Grant awarded by the Culture and Animals Foundation to launch project entitled: Monument to Animals We Do Not Mourn
2015 American Pet Cemetery Gravestone Image Pairings: A Visual Strategy for Exploring Interspecies Relationships. Paper presented at the 2nd Biennial Living with Animals Conference at Eastern Kentucky University, March 2015.
2015 Mourning the Unknown and Honoring the Unmourned. Poster presentation and art display exhibited at the 2nd Biennial Living with Animals Conference at Eastern Kentucky University, March 2015.
2014 Honoring, Contradiction and Chance in American Pet Cemetery Gravestones: Visual Art. Meets Human-Animal Studies. Paper presented at the 2014 International Conference on Nonhumans at the University of California, Davis, Interdisciplinary Animal Studies Research Group. Web link: http://nonhumans.org/november-2014-conference/
2014 Selected photographs from my Pet Cemetery Gravestone Project exhibited at Beuhler Alumni Center, University of California, Davis, as part of the International Conference on Nonhumans.
2014 Featured Interview: Animals and Society Institute
http://www.animalsandsociety.org/blog/asinterview-november-2014-linda-brant
2014 Another Wheel of Fortune, an interactive sculpture and concept map, exhibited in the Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design as part of the annual Faculty Art Exhibition. Detail of interactive sculpture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osw3OSW9BMU
2014 Honoring Non-Human Animals, Presentation at Convening Culture Conference 2014: Connecting the Arts with Environmental Conservation, Vero Beach Museum of Art. Sponsored by Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and Citizens for Florida Art, Inc.
2014 Honoring, Gratitude and Guilt, a solo exhibition featuring sculpture, photography and concept maps at the J.K. and Sarah Galloway Foundation Gallery, Winter Park, FL.
2013 WUCF 'Artisodes' program segment: Linda Brant (video) Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH97H9pl5_k
2013 Boning up: Using ancient and contemporary bone sculptures to explore complex psychological concepts. Presentation of paper and images at the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Hope College, Holland, Michigan.
SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS
2014 Honoring, Gratitude and Guilt, J. K. and Sarah Galloway Foundation Gallery, Winter Park, FL
2012 Clay 2-D: Paintings and Sculpture by Linda Brant, Guinevere's at the Gallery at Avalon
Island, Orlando, FL
2010 Transformation, Women’s Research Center Gallery, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 DeLand Sculpture Walk, Sponsored by the Museum of Florida Art, Stetson University and the City of DeLand, DeLand, FL. Outdoor sculpture installed from 2017-2018.
2016 Sight Unseen: Touchable Sculpture, Albin Polasek Museum, Winter Park, FL.
2015 Annual Faculty Art Exhibit, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL. Photograph and two sculptures exhibited in the Selby
Gallery
2014 Annual Faculty Art Exhibit, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL. Another Wheel of Fortune, an interactive sculpture and concept map, exhibited in the Selby Gallery.
2014 I Believe, City Arts Factory, Orlando FL
2013 DeLand Sculpture Walk, Sponsored by the Museum of Florida Art, Stetson University and the City of DeLand, DeLand, FL. Outdoor sculpture installed from 2011-2013.
2013 From Start to Finish, juried exhibit of work by members of the Florida Sculptor's Guild,Albin Polasek Museum, Winter Park, FL
2013 Paint the Town 2013, sponsored by Orlando Magazine, Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL
2011 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Florida Museum for Women Artists, DeLand, FL
2011 Paint the Town 2011, sponsored by Orlando Magazine, Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL
2010 Wild and Free: Sculpture and Paintings by Linda Brant and Saulius Jankauskas, Creative Spirit Art Gallery, Orlando, FL
2010 Prima Materia: A juried sculpture exhibit, Creative Spirit Art Gallery, Orlando, FL
2010 The Art of Hope, Winter Park Heritage Center Winter Park, FL.
2010 Florida Sculptor's Guild Exhibition, Terrace Gallery, Orlando City Hall, Orlando, FL
2009 Physicality, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, and AWARDS
2016 Creativity Grant, Culture and Animals Foundation
2015 Creativity Grant, Culture and Animals Foundation
2015 Professional Development Grant, Ringling College of Art and Design
2014 Professional Development Grant, Ringling College of Art and Design
2014 Alumni Award: Lesley College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2010 President's Award, Florida Artist's Registry Juried Exhibition at the Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL
2009 Cheryl Bogdanowitsch Sculpture Award and Scholarship; Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, FL
2009 First Place, Sculpture. Crealde School of Art Annual Juried Student Exhibition
2009 Honorable Mention in Sculpture Category: DeLand Fall Festival of the Arts
2008 President's Award, Artist's Registry Juried Exhibition at the Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL