ON VIEW
April 18 – 16, 2025
May 8 – 17, 2025

OPENING RECEPTIONS
Friday, April 18, 5 – 7 pm
Thursday, May 8, 5 – 7 pm

Ana Rogers-Reed

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Ana Rogers-Reed is a textile artist and disability justice advocate who explores the intersections of labor, time, and the body through her work. Originally from upstate New York, she is currently based in Portland, Maine. She received her BA in Visual Art from the University of Maine at Farmington (2023) and earned her MFA at Maine College of Art & Design in 2025. In 2022, her work and writing were published in Branches: A University of Maine at Farmington Anthology Celebrating Work from Students Across the Arts & Humanities, Science, and Education. Her recent exhibitions include ArtPM 2025 at Buoy Gallery, a solo window exhibition, Who Do These Walls Hold?, On the Line, and the Third Annual Summer Show at Maine College of Art & Design. 


Through a deep engagement with the process of handweaving, using it as a means of making and unmaking, my work challenges harmful notions of normality, envisioning a kinder, more inclusive future. Using hand-dyed wool yarn and cotton threads, I emphasize the ability of weavings to be made and unmade by pushing the boundary between where the woven surface ends and individual threads begin. Embracing this movement beyond linearity and the slowness of the process connects weaving to a lineage of crip futures, critiquing oppressive contemporary standards like the capitalist drive for productivity and rigidity of linear time.

My artistic practice is rooted in theory, advocacy, and lived experience. I draw from crip theory's transdisciplinary approach, embracing the intersections of feminist, disability, and queer theory to understand how meaning and material are co-constituted. Furthermore, by pushing against and beyond the dominant discourses, ideologies, and practices surrounding weaving and disability, I imagine something more for the material and future. By making and unmaking woven textiles and embracing patterns as language, I find new ways of existing beyond and through current, exclusionary societal structures.



The MFA Thesis Exhibitions for the Class of 2025 incorporate a range of making practices unified by the overwhelming concerns these students have for their environment, their communities, their families, and their own wellbeing. With an emphasis on the personal, and at times the anecdotal, these 17 artists make a variety of contributions in the form of ceramics, drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, prints, sculptures, sound and video installations, and textiles. The nature of their work and research demonstrates the caliber and cultural relevance of Maine College of Art & Design’s Masters in Fine Arts in Studio Art program.