MASS MoCA Magnet: Kelli Rae Adams The Artist Is In

This sturdy, glossy refrigerator magnet is 1.5" x 4.5" from Kelli Rae Adams' Building 6 exhibition Forever in Your Debt.

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Student loan debt in the US today totals over 1.7 trillion dollars and is collectively borne by more than 44 million Americans, including artist kelli rae adams. With her installation Forever in Your Debt, adams converts this abstract burden into a tangible volume. She has crafted hundreds of wheel-thrown vessels, sized to collectively hold the average individual student debt —$37,000—in the form of coins. Each unique bowl holds approximately a pint of mixed change, worth about $40; this is also the value she assigns to the labor embodied in each vessel.