Edgelands Research — About

Meryl Quinn

Meryl Quinn Kernell is a multimedia artist, designer, and forager from the Midwest. She works in both traditional and nontraditional mediums, including oil painting, photography, video and collage, as well as participatory events and performance pieces. Her work stems from research into the American myth of the frontier, vestiges of settler colonialism in the preservationist and environmentalist movements in the West, cultural nostalgia, queer history, and our food systems.

She is interested in the collaborative practices of traditional crafts like quilting and card making, hosting workshops and events that build community and help connect people to the land, and sharing foraging knowledge. Her practice asks how we can shift cultural narratives of the human/nature division to consider our role as participants within ecosystems rather than mere observers, and she is dreaming of ways we can collectively write futures of equitable land use. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis and currently resides in Denver.

Lucas Drummond

Lucas Drummond is a multimedia artist and interactive designer. His studio practice explores the entanglements between the physical and digital, as well as the ways our identities are shaped by the internet. He is also interested in the ecologies and infrastructures of the web; exploring possibilities for a sustainable, communal and intimate web.

Lucas recently taught as a lecturer at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned his BFA in communication design.