XANDER MARRO
PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST AS A MID LIFE CRISIS SELF PORTRAIT SERIES
BIO ***
Xander Marro has been living the good life in the feminist sub-underground for too many years to count on her long bony fingers. She draws pictures (usually narrative), makes movies (usually not narrative), produces plays with elaborate sets and costumes (usually narrative, but confusing), and then makes stuff like posters, quilts and dioramas (probably narrative?). Her work is often about spiritual relationships to the material stuff of this world. Co-founder of the Dirt Palace in 2000 (feminist cupcake encrusted netherworld located along the dioxin filled banks of the Woonasquatucket river, which is to say in Providence, RI USA). Her studio (and heart) is there still.
Xander cut her teeth in arts management on the jagged edges of spreadsheets at AS220 while working as the Managing Director. She currently serves as Co-Director of Dirt Palace Public Projects. She's been involved with issues around affordable housing, and equity within the changing landscape of urban America for over two decades.