Molly Hassler

Molly Hassler is an interdisciplinary artist, often embracing collaboration and primarily using drawing and fiber techniques to mine the complex relation between representation and identity as a queer person in the Midwest. Through printing, drawing, weaving, and quilting, she is actively sewing up the past, literally and metaphorically mending. Her fine art practice rests most comfortably between peculiar three-dimensional objecthood and seminarrative works containing drawings and text that speak to the sweetness and trauma of queer and trans coming of age.

Hassler is a 2020 recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Residency Merit Grant and the Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Grant. She has shown her work in exhibitions including Ortega Y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, New York, and The Jackson Dinsdale Art Center in Hastings, Nebraska, as well as local galleries. Currently working as a teaching artist-in-residence with Lynden Sculpture Garden and Woodland Pattern Book Center, she carries out multiple community based projects in Milwaukee Public Schools.