Meredith Drum is a multimedia artist working with video, animation, installation, augmented reality, and various modes of public participation. Collaboration is central to her life as an artist and she intends to create projects that cultivate care for others, both humans and non-humans. She is influenced by socialist feminism, cinema history, swimming in the ocean, climate justice, multispecies anthropology, cultural studies, walking in the woods, science fiction, riding bikes with loved ones, contemporary visual culture, and her family, friends, and cats.
Drum’s work has been supported by grants and residencies with The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, CEC Arts Link, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, iLand (Interdisciplinary Lab for Art, Nature + Dance), the Wassaic Project, the Experimental Television Center, ChaNorth, ISSUE Project Room, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Wave Farm Transmission Arts with the New York State Council on the Arts, and others.
Internationally, her research and artwork have been presented as a solo screening at Microscope Gallery, NY, NY as well as group exhibitions and screenings across the U.S. and in Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, France, Mexico and Spain.
Drum earned her MFA in Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California Santa Cruz where she studied with Helen and Newton Harrison, Soraya Murray, Jennifer González, Irene Lusztig, Warren Sack, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Karen Barad.
She has had a long history as an educator, which has strongly impacted her creative initiatives. For twelve years, she worked with public high school students in New York City on art, video, animation, and creative writing initiatives with a social justice focus through a range of organizations including the DreamYard’s A.C.T.I.O.N. Project in the Bronx, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, and Teachers & Writers in Queens.
She is now an Associate Professor in the School of Visual Art at Virginia Tech. With her husband, artist Mitch Miller, and their cats, Cleo and George, she lives in a house that Mitch built for them in the forest.
