b. 1995 st. louis mo
Selena [Len] Loomis is an artist, educator, and curator who lives and works in Chauncey, Ohio. They make work about [dis]comfort, cycles, and the time the body keeps. Often this takes the form of nontraditional fibercraft, interrogating the responsibilities we have to one another and to the more-than-human world.
Curatorially, they are interested in enacting the latin root of the word ‘curare’ – meaning to care for communities, artists, audiences, and one another.
Loomis holds an MA in Arts Administration and an MFA in Sculpture + Expanded Practices from OHIO University, where they currently teach and serve as Curator of Exhibitions and Galleries with the School of Art + Design. Loomis further holds a BA in Performance Art from Antioch College, has been faculty at The School of the Alternative, a Deep Ecology Artist Fellow at United Plant Savers, and was awarded a scholarship to attend Penland School of Craft in 2024. Recently, they founded and currently run tend space art center, a DIY third-space focused on creative connection and collaboration in rural southeast Ohio.
Loomis is interested in cultivating spaces to be meaningfully alone, together.
Curatorially, they are interested in enacting the latin root of the word ‘curare’ – meaning to care for communities, artists, audiences, and one another.
Loomis holds an MA in Arts Administration and an MFA in Sculpture + Expanded Practices from OHIO University, where they currently teach and serve as Curator of Exhibitions and Galleries with the School of Art + Design. Loomis further holds a BA in Performance Art from Antioch College, has been faculty at The School of the Alternative, a Deep Ecology Artist Fellow at United Plant Savers, and was awarded a scholarship to attend Penland School of Craft in 2024. Recently, they founded and currently run tend space art center, a DIY third-space focused on creative connection and collaboration in rural southeast Ohio.
Loomis is interested in cultivating spaces to be meaningfully alone, together.