Gina Siepel (she/they) is an interdisciplinary sculptor, designer, and woodworker. Their artistic practice reflects an engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology, and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina’s works have been shown in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum for Art in Wood, the Colby Museum, the DeCordova Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the ICA at Maine College of Art, the Langlais Art Preserve, and Amherst College. Gina has been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan, the Winterthur Museum, the Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Space, Surf Point, Hewnoaks, and Mildred’s Lane. She was a 2023 recipient of a Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft, and was awarded grants by the Puffin Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Northampton Arts Council. Gina holds a BFA from the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase and an MFA from the Maine College of Art, and has taught at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and Hampshire College. Gina is currently a MacLeish Field Station Artist-in-Residence and research affiliate in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College.