Siena Hancock - 2019 Spring Resident

Siena Hancock is an interdisciplinary artist who makes sculpture, interactive installation and artist books/zines. A Boston native, Hancock graduated Massachusetts College of Art with her BFA in 2016. She has recently completed an installation at the Dirt Palace in Providence, RI and a residency at Main St Arts in Upstate, New York. Research plays an important role in Hancock’s practice, utilizing an ethnographic approach she records interviews with women as part of ongoing project Feminist Utopias. Her current work deals with cyberfeminism, alternative realities, mythology, and how technology affects social customs.

While in residence, Hancock will continued her long term personal work on utopian feminism. Hancock conducted over 30 interviews, distributed surveys, and developed ethnographies of women in Muncie to discuss feminism in the Midwest. The project culminated in a panel discussion, Girl Talk: Storytelling as Advocacy , featuring the voices of Ashleigh Bingham, Jill Christman, and Angie Roger-Howells, women who navigate the stories of women in Muncie through their storytelling and interview practices.

Hancock also collaborated with numerous local artists and past residents on smaller project, such as the curated exhibition False Faces at the Muncie Makes Lab, and Speed Swipe, with collaborator Melissa Joy Livermore, at the David Owsley Museum of Art.