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George Ferrandi
GEORGE FERRANDI

George Ferrandi is the director of Wayfarers Studio Program and Gallery in Bushwick, and was the founding member of the touring performance project Cloud Seeding: Circus of the Performative Object, as well as a founding member of the City Reliquary Museum in New York. Her work has been featured in online publications all over the world and performed or exhibited at institutions around the country, including Abrons Arts Center in New York, the Kitchen in New York, Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, the University of California, San Diego, the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida and the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. She has received grants from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the RISD Part-Time Faculty Association. Ferrandi teaches sculpture and performance art periodically at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Virginia Commonwealth University. She also runs a small business specializing in the restoration of statues of saints for churches.  end