We were honored to welcome artist and educator Karen Brummund to FSA’s Artist-in-Residence program in Charleston (Spring 2023) as part of FSA’s presentation in the annual Spirited Brunch event. Based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Brummund makes art in response to places and communities around the world, “researching aesthetic ways to create dialogue in public space” through time-based drawings of architecture. Her process not only facilitates communal interaction, but forms a pedagogical disposition of humility, awe, and wonder. Drawing upon her project “Lines Between” in her practice as an artist and a mother, Brummund challenges art institutional perspectives that are monolithic to engage the imagination of children, which, in turn, is just as necessary for adults. She relates: “Humility is really exciting to me because it shows that none of us sees it all. And there’s something we don’t see. And so trying to help us feel that the invisible is more real than the visible.”

This focus of this residency engaged Karen Brummund’s community-oriented practices through a performative educational workshop in Charleston, and an experiential-collective art making scenario that also encompasses her speciality in drawing and temporary public installations. Karen’s expansive vision invited all ages to participate and learn from the creative process, from the perspective of wonder. Her residency was oriented around and culminated with the Spirited Brunch event on April 23rd, 2023.

This was FSA’s second year participating in Spirited Brunch, an interfaith gathering in Charleston where varying houses of worship open their doors to the public and offer a form of food to share with the community.

To view Karen Brummund’s residency projects documentation in Charleston CLICK HERE