Bethany Springer (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in modern dance and sculpture. For nearly three decades, her practice has focused on the possibilities and limitations of the body in unstable environments. Residencies in Newfoundland and the Arctic Circle have fueled her current installations which examine the uncanny relationship between Polar and Space exploration.
Springer’s installations have been exhibited at venues including The Delaware Contemporary, 21C Museum Hotel, Maryland Art Place (MAP), Boston Center for the Arts, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT, the Grounds for Sculpture, the Georgia Museum of Art, Full Tilt Creative Centre in Newfoundland, Canada, LHUCA in Lubbock, TX, and as a contributor to the Personal Structures exhibition at the 2022 Venice Art Biennale. Most recently Springer’s work was selected for inclusion in the ACNMWA’s 2023-2025 Artist Registry, and in 2024 her first digital publication premiered on Burnaway’s Mood Ring.
Springer received an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Georgia and holds a Modern Dance minor from Virginia Tech. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, an Artist Mini Grant from the Iowa Arts Council, and a Community Research Award from the University of Arkansas Community and Family Institute. Springer has been in residence at Full Tilt Creative Centre and Terra Nova National Park in Newfoundland, The Arctic Circle in the International Territory of Svalbard, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Artist House at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences in Georgia, the Tides Institute and Museum of Art, and Marble House Project in Dorset, VT. Springer currently lives and works in Fayetteville, Arkansas and is a Professor in Sculpture + Experimental Media at the University of Arkansas.