MILLICENT KENNEDY STUDIOS

Site specific installation at Charles Allis Art Museum in Milwaukee, WI
Kennedy’s installation responds not only to the Allis Art Museum’s dining room, but also Charles Allis’s position as an industrialist. The flowing layout of ceramics stitched into silk and chiffon suggest an organic connection between work done to create equity and the need of this security to sustain life. Placed on the porcelain tableware, the tools and materials that workers engage with take the place of food. Items related to agricultural, manufacturing and textile work have been chosen to relate to the industries that Allis-Chalmer’s worked alongside. The porcelain and silk used in this work are symbols of luxury and correlate to success. They
however have been sourced from second hand stores, and question the destiny of our possessions after our passing.