Kae Pershon, CV

Professional Experience

 

  • Freelance museum consulting that focuses on helping small museums build foundational pathways that can be used to guide staff and volunteers and ensure your organization is able to achieve more than you ever thought possible. 

  • Assisted in curation of exhibitions, photographed collection, created any and all graphics relating to programming and exhibitions, assisted in maintaining safety of collection through mount and box storage fabrication.

  • Assisted with art installation, framing, art handling, and graphic design

  • Taught resin jewelry, acrylic pour methods, and illustration

  • Created comic and pop culture based illustrations for sale online and through convention events. Was featured as the Badge Artist for Grand Rapids Comic Con in 2019

  • Curated monthly exhibits in Heartside Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI

Selected Exhibitions and Collaborations

 

  • Beyond the Gaze - Representing Disability in Contemporary Art, Foster Gallery, Eu Claire, WI (artist)

  • Flourish: A Juried National Exhibition of Floral and Botanical Artworks During Garden Week, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA (artist)

    (Jury Award) 2024 Art of Possibilities, Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Center, Madison, WI (artist)

    37th Annual Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI (artist)

  • 59th Annual Art of Possibilities, Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Center, Madison, WI (artist)

    end(less), DAAC, Grand Rapids, MI (curator/artist)

  • (less), 106 Gallery, Grand Rapids MI, (curator/artist)

    58th Annual Art of Possibilities, Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Center, Madison, WI (artist)

    West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (artist)

    cease(less), DAAC, Grand Rapids, MI (curator/artist)

    Valid and Valued: Emphasizing Empathy and Mental Health, GVSU Art Gallery, Allendale, MI (curator)

    Invisible Identities, GVSU Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI (curator)

  • time(less), DAAC, Grand Rapids, MI (curator/artist)

    Artifacts of Identity: Tintypes of the Modern Persona, GVSU Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI (curator)

  • Artifacts of Identity: Tintypes of the Modern Persona, GVSU Art Gallery, Allendale, MI

  • Badge Artist, Grand Rapids Comic Con, Grand Rapids, MI (artist)

  • It Never Leaves You, Cerasus Studios, Grand Rapids, MI (artist/curator)

Publications