Maren Hassinger

Maren Hassinger
Born
Maren Louise Jenkins

1947 (age 76–77)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles,
Bennington College
SpousePeter Hassinger

Maren Hassinger (born Maren Louise Jenkins in 1947)[1] is an African-American artist and educator whose career spans four decades. Hassinger uses sculpture, film, dance, performance art, and public art to explore the relationship between the natural world and industrial materials.[2] She incorporates everyday materials in her art, like wire rope, plastic bags, branches, dirt, newspaper, garbage, leaves, and cardboard boxes.[2][3] Hassinger has stated that her work “focuses on elements, or even problems—social and environmental—that we all share, and in which we all have a stake…. I want it to be a humane and humanistic statement about our future together.”[2]

Trained in dance, Hassinger transitioned to making sculpture and visual art in college.[4] Hassinger received her MFA in Fiber Arts from UCLA in 1973.[2] She was the director emeritus of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art for ten years.[5] She currently lives and works in New York City.

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  2. ^ a b c d "Maren Hassinger". LANDMARKS. 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  3. ^ Frank, Priscilla (2017-02-20). "Museums Celebrate The Black Women Artists History Has Overlooked". HuffPost. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  4. ^ "Maren Hassinger | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
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