Braydee Euliss
Braydee Euliss is a conceptual artist and arts & culture practitioner with fifteen years of professional experience in curation, artist advocacy, arts administration, and nonprofit leadership. She works with objects, spaces, and frameworks to explore the often inconspicuous ways they hold us up and hold us back. Her curatorial and consultation work examines the interdependence of artists and institutions across public, private, and nonprofit entities.
Euliss is the Owner/Director of COMPANION, an exhibition, project, and gathering space guided by artist-centered mutualism. She is the Director of Curatorial Affairs for BUTTER Fine Art Fair by GANGGANG and has led the curatorial team since its inaugural year in 2021. Since 2020, she has served as the Indiana Arts Commission Region 5 Arts Partner through the Community Foundation of Randolph County.
Committed to building hyper-local infrastructures for creatives and leveraging the arts to connect communities, she first championed her hometown of Muncie, Indiana. Projects include a large-scale mural with the Mark III Taproom (the state’s oldest LGBTQ+ nightclub), five years of Final Friday programming at the David Owsley Museum of Art, directing the Muncie Arts and Culture Council, and helping the city secure its first National Endowment for the Arts grant to launch the artist-in-residence program PlySpace. She received the 2015 Mayor’s Arts Award for Next Generation Artist and the 2016 20 Under 40 Next Generation Leader Award.
Curatorial and artist advocacy work in Indianapolis includes early direction of City State Residency in 2017, briefly leading the team behind Indianapolis Contemporary as its Executive Director until the board’s dissolution of the organization during the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing collaboration with 60 on Center, StorageSpace, and various artist-run initiatives.
Euliss holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the School of Art at Ball State University.
Photograph by Jana Astrouski