Aaron McIntosh grew up in the Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee, where his families’ working class environments and domestic activities such as quiltmaking have figured large in his visual vocabulary. He received a BFA from the Appalachian Center for Craft and a MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He continues to explore the intersections of material culture, family tradition, identity-shaping, sexuality and desire in a range of works including quilts, collage, drawing, domestic… more