Brandi Kruse (b. 1979 Ypsilanti, Michigan) is an artist and educator based in Portland, Oregon. Kruse’s artwork spans multiple disciplines and addresses our expectations within real and imagined spaces. As a social justice educator working at the confluence of art and language, Kruse is committed to interdisciplinary teaching through a critical literacy perspective. She is the co-founder of KC, a writers’ collective publishing poetry zines since 2013. In 2015 she produced an artist publication called Impossible Paper Architecture and flat out in 2019.
Kruse earned a BS in Education (Art and Literature) from Central Michigan University in 2003 and an MFA in Print Media from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2016. She teaches art at Springwater Trail High School and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Kruse is the recipient of residencies at the Portland Art Museum, Caldera Arts Center, and The Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.
Kruse’s work has been exhibited at numerous institutions in Portland, including the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Museum of Contemporary Craft, and Fuller Rosen Gallery. Kruse has also exhibited work in Tacoma, WA at 950 Gallery, Union Gallery in Amherst, MA, Paper Plane Gallery in Atlanta, GA, Fold Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Lost Coast Culture Machine in Ft. Bragg, CA, and Worksound International in Mexico City, MX.
Kruse earned a BS in Education (Art and Literature) from Central Michigan University in 2003 and an MFA in Print Media from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2016. She teaches art at Springwater Trail High School and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Kruse is the recipient of residencies at the Portland Art Museum, Caldera Arts Center, and The Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.
Kruse’s work has been exhibited at numerous institutions in Portland, including the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Museum of Contemporary Craft, and Fuller Rosen Gallery. Kruse has also exhibited work in Tacoma, WA at 950 Gallery, Union Gallery in Amherst, MA, Paper Plane Gallery in Atlanta, GA, Fold Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Lost Coast Culture Machine in Ft. Bragg, CA, and Worksound International in Mexico City, MX.
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brandi.kruse@gmail.com
brandi.kruse@gmail.com