Malena Magnolia

Malena Magnolia is an interdisciplinary, mixed media, and eco-friendly street artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, and social justice. In 2013, she graduated from Peck School of Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a BFA in drawing and painting and with a sub-concentration in art history. While in Milwaukee, Magnolia was a grassroots activist and was involved in many different organizations related to art and social justice. She was also the Co-founder of the former Milwaukee based collective, Positive Body Project (PBP), was on the student committee for planning the 2013 Southern Graphics Conference, and was one of four selected candidates to receive the Charlottesville SOUP grant in Fall of 2013. Magnolia currently lives and works between Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia. Website: malenamagnoliaart.com