Biography
Duncan Clark Menzies, an interdisciplinary conceptual artist born in Snohomish, Washington and raised in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, currently resides there. His work explores the intersections of spiritual, Celtic, communal, and queer identities through shared stories and spaces. Menzies’ primary project, The Bed Sheet Chronicles, collects personal stories through community interviews in which he asks participants “What do you Cover?” The interviewee then provides him with a bedsheet. Using bedsheets, storytelling, performance, woodworking, projection, and lighting, the project delves into themes such as shame, upbringing, religion, politics, cultural heritage, and identity.
Menzies’ background in Vocal Performance from the University of Idaho spurred his curiosity about the intersection of art exhibition and staged performance. As a result, he founded Drawn Together Arts, which produces periodic performance productions in art gallery venues. These productions alchemize life experience, story, and shared humanity through devised cabaret and staged readings.