Marie Bannerot McInerney

Marie Bannerot McInerney, Professor and chair of the Fiber Department, is a multidisciplinary studio artist and educator. Her site-responsive installations and discrete works in concrete, silk, handmade paper and canvas consider human agency within the framework of ecological systems, mystical thinking, and natural phenomena. She is a 2018 Charlotte Street Artist Award Fellow, a 2024 recipient of the Stone and DeGuire Contemporary Art Award and has participated in residencies at Studios Inc and The Luminary. McInerney has exhibited across the United States and abroad including shows at the Bellevue Arts Museum (Bellevue, WA), Mildred Lane Kemper Museum (Saint Louis, MO) Friedrich Schiller University (Jena, Germany), and Han Tianheng Art Museum Shanghai (Shanghai City, China) as well as solo exhibitions at The Tarble Arts Center (Charleston, IL), Studios Inc. (Kansas City, MO), and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonvill, AR). McInerney co-authored an essay in the book, Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of our Contact Zone and was awarded a Cultural Exchange Grant from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin to present work. Her formative years were spent in Houston, TX before she earned a BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA at Washington University in Saint Louis.

McInerney believes there is great power in collaboration and has served as co-director and co-curator in two curatorial collaboratives: PLUG Projects (Kansas City, MO) and The Independent Art Market (Saint Louis, MO). She worked in the costume and fashion industry for over a decade as a knitwear designer and manufacturer for SKIF International and as the head dyer/painter for the costume shop at the Opera Theatre Saint Louis. Actively engaged in the field of hand papermaking she has served on the board of directors for both Hand Papermaking and North American Hand Papermakers.