Meredith Drum is a multimedia artist using technology ethically, critically, and joyfully. Considering a future beset by environmental, social, economic, and political trouble due to climate change, she collaborates with others to cultivate care for humans and non-humans. Her toolbox includes video, animation, installation, extended reality, and various modes of public participation. She is influenced by science fiction, cinema history, swimming in the ocean, socialist feminism, getting lost in giant cities, climate justice, riding bikes, multispecies anthropology, contemporary visual culture, and loving 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 other institutions. She has enjoyed several solo exhibitions and screenings, including at Microscope Gallery, NY, NY. And her work has been part of numerous group exhibitions and screenings across the U.S. and in Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, France, Mexico, and Spain.
Drum earned her MFA at the University of California, Santa Cruz; 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, the Museum of the Moving Image, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
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. Here is Drum’s abbreviated CV. If you have questions, use the contact page or directly: meredithdrum at gmail.com
