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Elly Stormer Vadseth, Master of Fine Arts

Born in Philadelphia USA.  Raised on a peninsula in the Oslo Fjord in Norway, Elly Stormer Vadseth is a Norwegian American dual citizen. Currently she is an MFA candidate at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Her thesis explores concepts of environmental time, relationships between the human body and land and environmental cosmologies and belief systems. Through an inter-textual and experimental practice based in movement she utilizes the dynamic languages of dance, painting, sound, moving image, sculpture and installation to convey eco feminist and multi species narratives in tune with seasonal rhythms.

She is the recipient of a Montague Travel grant and traveled to Iceland researching Nordic Earth based belief systems and mythology embedded within land. Her work has recently been shown, performed and published nationally and internationally through exhibitions at Gallery Autonom in Oslo/Norway, Støa in Holmsby/Norway, LA Convention center, Laconia Gallery and Piano craft gallery in Boston/USA and Gallery 263 in Cambridge/USA. In the summer of 2018 her work is being screened at the Queer Open Out Festival in Tromsø, Norway and Vigil for the Earth festival In Notodden, Norway. She is very excited to continue her research as a Tufts Institute of the Environment fellow, doing interdisciplinary artistic research Drought and water conservation in Montana this summer!