Accola Griefen Fine Art

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EXHIBITING

Gina Adams
Merritt Johnson
Renée Stout

Gina Adams is a descendant of both indigenous (Ojibwe) and colonial Americans. Her formal education includes a BFA from the Maine College of Art and an MFA from the University of Kansas, where she focused on Visual Art, Curatorial Practice, and Critical Theory.  Adams’s work draws on cultural practices passed down from her ancestors, as well as from a family history of forced assimilation. 

Merritt Johnson is a pansexual woman of mixed (non-status) Mohawk, Blackfoot, and Settler descent. Johnson earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. For nearly two decades, Johnson’s work has navigated spaces between bodies and the body politic, land, and culture rooted in and dependent on Anowarakowa Kawennote or Turtle Island— names given to North America by the Mohawk.

Renée Stout grew up in Pittsburgh and received her BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980. Originally trained as a painter, she moved to Washington, D.C. in 1985. There, she began to explore the spiritual roots of her African American heritage through her work, and eventually became the first American artist to exhibit in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. Stout draws inspiration from the African Diaspora, explorations into Voodoo and Hoodoo cultures in the American South, as well as everyday life in her DC neighborhood.