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Received a full scholarship from The Chairmaker's Toolbox, an organization dedicated to diversifying the craft of greenwood chairmaking to include makers from under-represented groups in the field, to participate in an upcoming workshop on building the iconic Jennie Alexander chair.


Co-led FOREST-BODY-CHAIR, a three-week interdisciplinary arts session with collaborator Sara Smith at Mildred’s Lane, an artist residency and project site in Beach Lake, PA, involving multi-modal investigations of the forest, human anatomy, and vernacular American furniture design.


Project, "Emma's Walk," commemorating the life of Emma Goldman, is included in a group exhibition titled Skowhegan Artists at the Maine Jewish Museum.

 


Was an invited online speaker at The Center for Art in Wood (Philadelphia, PA), where she gave a lecture entitled “To Understand a Tree, A Work in Process,” on a long-term project underway at the Smith College Macleish Field Station. Gina is also exhibiting in AREA CODE Art Fair (Boston MA), the first art fair featuring contemporary artists with ties to New England. 


Solo exhibition "New World Reconsidered," at the Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State University, Framingham MA. The show is open from Feb 24 - March 19, 2020 with a reception and artist lecture on March 4.


Gave a public lecture on recent work as an invited visiting artist in the "Local Ecologies" exhibition, jointly curated and sponsored by UMass Dartmouth, UMass Boston and UMass Lowell. Siepel is also serving as a visiting artist in the Department of Sculpture at the Maine College of Art. (2019)


Singer, Kate. (2023). “From It’s the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Queer: Mary Shelley, Queer Affect, and Shapeshifting Through The Last Man.” In Chris Washington, Editor, The Last Man: A Norton Critical Edition. W. W. Norton.


Singer, K. (2022). “Shapeshifting Romantic Consciousness." In Richard Sha and Joel Faflak (Eds.), Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited (pp. 311-338). Edinburgh University Press.


Singer, K. (2019). Romantic Vacancy: The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation. SUNY Press: Albany, NY.


Singer, K. "'It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Queer': Mary Shelley, Queer Affect, and Shapeshifting through The Last Man." In K. Singer, A. Cross, and S. L. Barnett (Eds.). Material Transgressions: Beyond Bodies, Genders, Things (213-232). Liverpool University Press.