Alyssa Sipe (she/her)(b. 1999, St. Louis Park, MN) is an artist living and studying in Kansas City, Missouri. Her work focuses on memory in relation to generational trauma, mental illness, and childhood sexual abuse. Honoring the use of hand sewing that was passed down to her by her mother and grandmother, Sipe incorporates the craft into her paintings as a method of transferring the emotional weight she feels within her family. Landscapes and notions of dwelling spaces that appear in her work serve as a vehicle to bridge her childhood memories with herself in the present. In her work, Sipe aims to create a space of reconciliation and self-reflection in opposition to resentment and shame.
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Education:
2020 - Current Kansas City Art Institute: BA Fine Arts, Painting
2017-2020 Johnson County Community College: Fine Arts
Exhibitions:
2021 The Breeze at Dawn, Lodger Gallery, Group Show (Online)
2021 Kansas City Art Institute Painting Department Exhibition, KCMO, Group Show
2020 KCAC Student Exhibition, Kansas City Artist Coalition, KCMO, Group Show (Online)
2020 JCCC Fine Arts Department Student Exhibition, KCMO, Group Show
Collections:
2020 Nerman Contemporary Museum of Art Student Collection
Achievements and Awards:
2021 Elize Hozel Scholarship Award
2020 Kansas City Art Institute Trustees Merit Scholarship Award
2020 League For Innovation Participant
2020 JCCC Fine Arts Department Scholarship Award
2019 JCCC Fine Arts Department Scholarship Award
2017 Shooting Stars Competition Participant