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Breanna "Bree" Stallings is North Carolina-native multi-media artist, illustrator, writer and activist.

Bree graduated from Queens University of Charlotte in 2013 with a Bachelor Degree in Studio Art and Creative Writing. She resides near uptown Charlotte where she creates work as a large-scale installation and public mural artist.

Using art as her vehicle, she raises awareness for many causes that affect her life and those closest to her such as economic mobility, displacement, and environmental consciousness.

Through the programs, curated art shows and fundraisers she has helped put on, Bree, alongside her creative team and partnerships with Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Project Art Aid, Behailu Academy, the Mecklenburg County Health Department, and many more have helped raised over $2,000,000 for furthering development in Charlotte's art and humanities scene.

In recent news, her partnership with the Mecklenburg County Health Department and students at Behailu Academy have provided the opportunity for 2 large-scale public art murals in designated "food deserts" to highlight the pressing issue of food insecurity in our communities. She is also an HATCH Intensive Training Cohort Fellow as sponsored by C4 Atlanta, Artist As Change Agent Fellow of 2019 as sponsored by EmcArts, Artists Campaign School of 2017 (Detroit, MI) Fellow as sponsored by Fractured Atlas, the 2018 GOLD Alumni Award Winner from Queens University of Charlotte and the 2017 Outstanding Leader In The Arts Award Winner from The Arts Empowerment Project.

CONTACT:

info@breestallings.com

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Album cover type shit. . Also, I updated my websit Album cover type shit.
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Also, I updated my website today. Take a scroll. ♥️
“Three Wishes”, a poem. . If I was granted thr “Three Wishes”, a poem.
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If I was granted three wishes, 
I would ask for the obvious:
No more starving people,
Shelter as a right, our last war 
already through.
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I am, after all, 
A woman whose heart bleeds
For this empty cup of a world.
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It seems to be a woman’s job,
to patch the broken hearts of men
who make lives out of breaking things:
homes, countries, bodies, dreams.
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Maybe then it’s a wish for self,
for an easier workload. A few days off
as the world heals itself with less
of my tending, researching, effort.
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But if once those things were brought,
once the exchange made: labor for love,
ease for peace; then I might rethink my answers.
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If I truly, secretly allowed myself to be selfish,
to think of me before the world,
I would ask for easy beauty.
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I would ask for manicures at a snap,
And hair that is effortless.
I would ask for forever supple skin. 
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I would ask for a body that is skinnier.
Or maybe a body that was right for whatever person was looking at me.
An amorphous cloud of hot body.
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I would ask for easy beauty because it is an acceptable form of women’s power.
All women know this, not just the beautiful ones.
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I would ask for all the time back spent
primping and plucking and puking.
I would ask for the mental space to be restored.
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I would ask for it so I could clear my calendar to do what I really want:
Learn French, be in a girl band, sit down.
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Easy beauty would be like a tax return.
A refund of all the money spent 
At a salon, in the gym, trying on bras…
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If granted easy beauty, after all,
with all that energy and brain space back,
I could actually change the world.
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No wonder it is so demanding.
No wonder it is never granted.
Last weekend, a woman came into my studio whom I r Last weekend, a woman came into my studio whom I revere. She was like a liaison from the Universe, who conspired and thought, “how do I get this girl to listen?”, and, then, in she walked. She affirmed for me a few things that have been rolling around in my mind, like marbles tracking through lines of doubt and fear. She told me that my work is beautiful (I struggle with making work that isn’t thematically heavy in this world that isn’t light) and that I should raise my prices. She asked me to make three more like a piece she saw in process and that she wanted to present it to a collector as a triptych. Anyways, just sent her the images. 🤞 
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This is a post about the boundaries we make and break with ourselves and the small bits of magic that happen when you just simply show up to put paint where it ain’t. ⭐️
Wearing my necklace I purchased from @needlesandpi Wearing my necklace I purchased from @needlesandpinsjewelry for Hamilton tonight with my best girl. Certainly a statement piece. ♥️
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