Education:
Amelia Winger-Bearskin is currently an MFA Candidate at the University of Texas in Austin where she is majoring in Transmedia, the study of time based art which includes Video Art , Performance art, and time based Installation.

Biography:
She is greatly interested in exploring the 4th dimension in art, that begins to push not only our experience visually but our temporal connection to artistic experience. She was classically trained as an Opera Singer in Rochester NY at the Eastman conservatory of music, and then pursued an undergraduate degree in the area of sculpture and Performance art. Growing up in Rochester NY , close to her seneca-cayuga tribal lands and the site of their largest city, was influential in shaping her narrative and outlook of her current work.

Her mother is a traditional native storyteller from the Seneca Cayuga tribe of the Iroquois nation. Stories of all kinds weave themselves into her works and are re contextualized to shape her work, unfolding destination, space, and time. She currently is working on a series of installations about the experience of a Native Women in modern society and women of mixed race backgrounds and the effect of their culture on their psyche and creative spirit.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin has shown in many Galleries all over major cities in the USA as well as in Mexico and Central America, where she lived for many years. She has received various grants, fellowships and awards in the artistic fields. She has held performances with her own performance art company for many years and has
a large body of collaborative artwork in addition to her solo pieces.

Artist Statement:
The way in which the modern human understands his current surroundings greatly depends on the stories they have learned; history, religion, and current news are all learned through storytelling. In a time when angels and end times share in the occupancy of the public unconscious with the same intensity as videos of war and violence, we can see how stories shape our morality, politics and future.

It is my journey as an artist to find a way to radicalize the story matrix that exists in the public conscious and unconscious structure. Through the overturning of old myth types there can be created a hybrid of stories to reflect an ever hybridization of races, cultures and religions. We need new stories; we need a new type of storytellers.

My mother is a traditional Seneca-Cayuga storyteller, and like my ancestors before me, I realize the vital place a storyteller has in the community. Like these ancestors who used the language and forms of their time, I use the changing multimedia of our times; there is a power in the creative enchantment of the inventions of our time, I seek to explore the reinvention of story for this age.


Web Site:
Studio Amelia - Virtual Artist Space: http://studioamelia.com/