Bio

Belle-Pilar Fleming is a printmaker and textile artist currently living in Greeley, Colorado. She was raised in a small town outside of Dayton, Ohio, a city situated at the threshold of the Rust Belt, Appalachia, and the Midwest. She holds a BA in Psychology from Warren Wilson College, and an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University. Drawing heavily from research practices based in the social sciences, her work focuses on the lived experiences of individuals across a spectrum of identity and place. Utilizing personal narrative, ethnography, and data visualization, she investigates the role of the artists as a community historian and the sociocultural contexts which shape our behavior. She is a former Artist-in-Residence at the Black Church Print Studio in Dublin, Ireland, and the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. She currently serves as the Director of Galleries at the University of Northern Colorado.