SCOTT MCKIBBEN

Scott McKibben is a Asheville, NC based photographer, cinematographer, visual artist, and musician. Scott's passion for video started at the age of 14, when he bought his first video camera. His curiosity for the arts has developed a rather expansive body of work over the years, yet he continues a consistent undertone for his connection with the Sun and relationship between time and space. In 2009, Scott began working on a body of work influenced by the relationship between man and his surroundings. In 2010 he introduced this body of work during his first solo art exhibit under the title, SEEDS. A combination of photography, melted wax, chalk, paint, and found objects where assembled together to represent no more than his relationship with inanimate objects. He used multiple mediums to record the movements that were made while assembling each piece. The only thought behind the series was to spontaneously make decisions based upon the movement of the sun. 

Scott has worked on collaborative videos for musicians, such as Moses Sumney, Rising Appalachia, Maggie Koerner, Blair Crimmins, and Paleface as well as many more. Originally from Atlanta, Scott spent 8 years absorbing the great city of New Orleans and migrated to Asheville, NC in 2017 where he met his wife Shea. Together they started a family with their baby Silver. They continue to cultivate a medicinal/ herbal garden on their property while Shea crafts herbal medicine through her company Blood Root Holistics as well as providing clinical herbalist and Thai body work in Marshall, NC in the Marshall High building. In 2022, Scott started Ride High. Ride High is a production company/ collective and studio based in the old French Broad School in Alexander, NC. This 2500 sq. ft. studio offers production space with video and photography rentals and assets for all productions. For more information about Ride High go to www.weridehigh.com.