Krystle Brown Interview
Learn more about Krystle Brown in an interview for Pearl.
Krystle Brown is a multimedia artist based in Salem, MA. Their work explores the connections between class, ancestry, place, environment, and labor, often embracing the role of family archivist and community documentarian. They hold a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Painting and Art History and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. From 2019 to 2021, they were an Emerging Artist at Kingston Gallery and had their first solo show in March 2021. In 2022, they created a community art project, “Calling Home,” as an artist-in-residence with the Urbano Project in Boston, MA. Also in 2022, Brown became one of four artists in the Public Art Accelerator Program through Now +There. Currently, Brown is working on their first major public art installation in Dorchester, Boston.
Artist Statement
Domicology is the study of the economic, social, and environmental characteristics relating to the life cycle of the built environment. I have been familiar with this term my whole life, even if I never knew the word. I grew up amongst old textile mills along the Merrimack River in Massachusetts, to two working-class parents. Our neighborhood saw the rises and falls of each recession and housing bubble, while my family faced worse economic prospects.
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