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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Babz Glines
SculptorBio
Babz Glines is a soon to be graduate from Kent State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Expanded Media. Glines grew up in Navarre going to the Massillon Art Museum and art events in downtown Canton where their passion for the arts flourished. While they are currently making interactive sculptures based on early childhood memories, they also make abstract 2D works as they believe it informs them for their sculpture practice. Babz has been exhibited in Kent in Aggregate 2: The Revenge of the Rock and Kent State’s 2025 Student Annual. They currently work at the Kent State Museum as an exhibition assistant.
Artist Statement
My goal with my art practice is to combine interactivity and traditional installation methods to create a sense of belonging and to make viewers question what fine art is and what it can be. Interaction and play are key components of my work, as I believe physical interaction can allow viewers to insert themselves into the artwork, the practice, myself, or a personal realization. I want to contradict what usually happens in gallery or museum settings, where there’s a line you cannot cross with a big “DO NOT TOUCH” sign. Working as an exhibition assistant, I have seen and stopped viewers from touching artworks, such as trying to flip over a quilt to see the stitching on the back. I see on a daily basis that people want to do more than just look at art. Viewers wish to feel a part of the process and have the opportunity to insert or see themselves in it in some capacity.