Kristine Barrett

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Folklore
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Prior to joining the folklore program, Kristine Barrett (MA 2023) received her BFA in New Media, Photography, and Art History before taking an MFA in Electronic Music Composition and Recording Media. She is interested in exploring connections between art historical sources, textile practices, and women’s vocal music traditions as a means of deepening and extending women's histories and narratives and ways that they are researched. She has studied Old Norse, Old Irish, and modern Irish and Swedish. A vocalist, choral director, and visual artist, she has performed in a range of traditional vocal musics and created works through embroidery/needlework and multi-media.

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