“Brittni Ann Harvey’s work speaks to the context of Massachusetts in such a beautiful and thoughtful way. Her practice reflects on enduring structures of power through metaphor and through her use of local, highly skilled forms of production specific to Fall River. Beyond her artistic work, her commitment to community through Fall River MOCA demonstrates a practice that spans institutions, making, textiles, and sculpture.” – juror Joseph Henry, Director of Cultural Planning, City of Boston, Office of Arts and Culture

“Brittni Ann Harvey has built a tremendous practice invested in the multiple histories and vital present of New England, specifically the area in and around Fall River, MA, through her layered sculptures and textiles work, collaborations, and founding of Fall River MoCA.” – juror Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, ICA Boston

Brittni Ann Harvey (b. 1992, RI) is a sculptor and textile-based artist and educator living and working in Fall River, MA. She has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge), NOW: Gallery (Lima), Someday (New York), and Anthony Greaney (Somerville), among others. Harvey is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art and holds a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Harvey’s work explores the complex relationships between emerging technologies, militarized materials, and their lasting effects on the human spirit. Working across both digital and analog methods, she creates layered visual works that incorporate hand-drawing, digital embroidery, jacquard weaving, and cast or hand-forged metal. The work culminates into forms that oscillate between the devotional, the technological, and the mythic, informed by the textile manufacturing past and industrial present of Fall River.