Donna Rae Kessinger

Multi-media Artist Donna Rae Kessinger’s focus is on projects that foster collaboration between artists and local communities, creating a marriage of art and commerce through intervention, public art project, or gallery exhibition. Kessinger participated in REPOhistory’s, Entering Buttermilk Bottom sign project in 1996. Donna has recorded turn of the century feminist oral herstories including Mary Beth Edelson, Nancy Spero, Janet Henry, Carolee Schneemann and Kate Millett. In 1999 she produced an interview with Kate Millett for DykeTV which screened on MNN. She was part of the Project Involve for Documentary cohort, Independent Feature Project, IFP in 2003. Her video work has been screened at the Jersey City Museum, RedSaw Gallery (Newark NJ), Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis C. Hull Gallery, Gardenship Drive-in, Wavelength Pandemic Projects, and venues internationally as part of ARTFEM.TV. Kessinger’s video project Les Biens, is archived at the Rhizome Artbase at the New Museum, and her REPOhistory sign design is part of the NYU Fales Library and Special Collections Archive.