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CONTACT: allana.l.ross@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Saint Louis Community College Saint Louis, Missouri / Certificate of Proficiency in Horticulture, 2021
Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts / MFA in Visual Arts, 2017
University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon / BFA, French and English Literature minors, 2009
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2023
If You Need to Use the Art public project with Saint Louis Division, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO
2022
Superfun! public project with Saint Louis Division, St. Louis City and County, MO
2019
Toxic Mound Tours : Westside public performance and event, St. Louis, MO
Mobile Dye Workshop public event series, St. Louis, MO
Art+Landscape STL Granite City Art and Design District, IL
Layered Place Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
2018
Toxic Mound Tours : Westside public performance and event, St. Louis, MO
Mobile Dye Workshop public event series, St. Louis, MO
The State of Our Shared Land St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton, MO
Resolve Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
Mixed Donald D. Shook Gallery, St. Charles, MO
2017
Atomic Garden Granite City Art and Design District, IL
Gardens for the Apocalypse various installation locations, St. Louis, MO
38.7731159, -90.5154291 Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Shelter In Place Lewis Center, University City, MO
Nasty Women Near Future, Iowa City, IA
2016
Postcards for the Apocalypse Lewis Center, University City, MO
Parabola:Reverberation Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
There was never such a mighty belief system Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Open Studios Lewis Center, University City, MO
2015
Parabola:Fractured/Self Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Open Studios Lewis Center, University City, MO
Selected Drawings Mt. Tabor, Portland, OR
2014
Selected Drawings Bill’s Old Fashion Service, Portland, OR
Astronauts and Dinosaurs Hummmm, Bend, OR
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts Lake Oswego, OR
2013
Selected Drawings and Prints La Medusa De Compostela, Compostela de Santiago, Spain
New Things D’Rechupte, Granada, Spain
ENGAGEMENTS
Guest presenter, Garden of Eden Studio, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2023
Guest presenter, Global Health and Environment, Anthropology Department, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2022
Guest artist, Community Artist in Residence, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, 2020Guest artist/presenter, Topics in Studio Art - Artists Working in the Public Realm, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, 2019
Presenter/project Leader, Mississippi: An Anthropocene River, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany, field campus in St. Louis, MO, and New Orleans, LA, 2019
Presenter, Art + Landscape STL artist talk, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, 2019
Fabrication team, Salvage Swings, Somewhere Studio, Roosevelt Island and Freshkills Park, NY, 2018-2019
Artist support grant recipient, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO, 2018
Guest artist/presenter, Public Art and Installation, Minnesota State University, Minneapolis, MN, 2018
Community Arts Training Fellow, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO, 2017-2018
Louise Roblee McCarthy Scholarship, 2016
Helen Faibish Memorial Scholarship, 2015
Galérie Caseneuve internship, Aurillac, France, 2010
David McCosh Memorial Scholarship in Fine Arts, 2009
Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts internship, Eugene, OR, 2008
PRESS/MEDIA
“Artist-Led Tours Of Toxic Waste Sites Aim To Reflect On St. Louis’ Contaminated History,” Chen, Eli. Saint Louis Public Radio. November 2019.
“Constructing Park-Like at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation,” HEC TV. September 2019.
“Critical Lifting,” Cowles, Sarah. Landscape Architecture Magazine. September 2017.