Brooke Stewart is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores the visual culture, histories, and material language of sport. A former two-sport Division I athlete, Stewart received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her BA in Studio Art and Art History from William & Mary. She currently teaches painting and drawing at SMFA at Tufts and is the founder of Project Hustle Boston, an artist-run project space in Boston’s South End.

“My work explores the intersection of art and sport through memory, movement, and experimentation. Drawing from my background as an athlete, I use painting, printmaking, and mixed-media installation to consider the courts and fields of women’s sports as more than surfaces. I see these spaces layered with time, labor, and the ongoing fight for equity.

Women’s sports histories are central to my practice. Courts become spaces where women have fought for visibility and equal space, but also places of joy, community, confidence, and freedom. I explore how the visual language of sport can carry history, from the scale of an entire court down to something as intimate as women’s underwear, through my research into the invention of the sports bra.

I think about time and how we spend it, but also how long women have been told what our bodies can and cannot do. Through my work, I return to the objects, spaces, and histories that have challenged those limitations and expanded our freedom to move, play, compete, and take up space.

Ultimately, I want the work to create its own field of play, a space where history and possibility overlap, where competition coexists with growth and failure, and where the lessons of the game extend far beyond the court.”