We recently connected with Madeline Brice and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Madeline thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

When I first took on the Directorship at Weinberger Fine Art, I wanted to curate what felt like a monumental show to me, so I developed a curatorial project titled The Life You’ve Seen. It was an exhibition housing over 35 women and non-binary artists from the Kansas City metro area and tackled the non-male experience. The works ranged from installation and textiles to prints and photography. I wanted to provide a space for artists who might have felt that their work didn’t fit within the context of a fine art gallery and to create a dialogue around the varying life experiences of these midwestern artists. It was incredibly powerful to see new and emerging artists exhibiting with mid-career and professional artists in our gallery space and I felt that I learned so much about each artists process and experience.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am Kansas City, Missouri based multidisciplinary queer visual artist and curator. In parallel with visual arts, I work as an active community member and organizer as the Director and Curator of Weinberger Fine Art and as co-curator of Curiouser KC, an artist run space in Kansas City, Kansas. I graduated in 2015 from Missouri State University Arts with a BFA in painting and received a BA in Art History in May of 2018. I am both a published and exhibiting artist having shown regionally and nationally in both solo and juried group exhibitions, most recently participating in the MDW Art Fair at Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL. In 2021, I was featured in Sotheby’s Institutes’ Made in Bed magazine as June’s emerging artist. In 2020, I was a recipient of a Charlotte Street Foundation Rocket Grant as a visual artist. You can see my work as a part of the permanent collection at Hotel Vandivort in Springfield, Missouri and on liquor store shelves with the rebranded Materfamilia beer label from Mother’s Brewing Company.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

For me, it’s that I get to completely design my own narrative. I think for a lot of visual artists, we make work because we don’t really know how to talk about whatever it is we’re making. It’s an output that doesn’t involve words. I get to make this body of work that tells whatever story I want it to tell and that’s exciting.

Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

Grants! Nobody taught me about grants or how to apply for grants in school. It should be a requirement.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.madelinebrice.com
• Instagram: @madelinebrice.art
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeline-brice-273bb0154/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/beeefybaby

Image Credits
Image of me taken by Juan Pardo. All other images taken by me.