A prankster at heart, Virginia Warwick first started performing, creating characters and storylines while growing up in Frederick, Maryland. In high school one could spot her on the streets handing out free cheese dressed as the infamous “Professor Cheese”. Growing up she grew to love wildlife and nature, evident from her history of pets, which included everything from quails to guinea pigs. While attending University of Maryland, College Park, she began to gravitate towards sculpture. Soon after graduating she was accepted into Rinehart School of Sculpture at MICA, where she refined her practice. Her work has been shown at such places as the Arlington Arts Center, ConnerSmith, Edison Place Gallery, Hood College, Goucher College. City Arts Gallery, Metro Gallery, Creative Alliance, E.M.P Collective, Current Gallery, 14kt Cabaret, Ruby Projects and Visarts at Rockville. She has been included in the Transmodern Festival in Baltimore multiple years and has participated in two performance arts festivals in New York. One at the Brooklyn International Performance Arts Festival in New York City and the other at the Infridgement Festival in Buffalo, New York. She recently attended the La Baldi artist residency in Montegiovi, Italy. Virginia currently teaches and creates artwork in Baltimore, Maryland.
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