COLLECTIVE INTERVENTIONS: ON PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE TOPOGRAPHICS
August 23–October 3, 2021
School of Art, Fine Arts Gallery
University of Arkansas
Collective Interventions highlights underrepresented narratives using works across multiple mediums. The exhibition is a collaborative curatorial project devised by School of Art students meant to develop forms of pedagogical activism. The artists come from many backgrounds and the curators see this collection of perspectives as giving vital voices autonomy over the historical, present, and future depiction of landscape. The exhibition is shaped by the convergence of intersectional perspectives on landscape––social, physical, and historical.
As you move through the gallery, the collective work introduces the themes of ownership, accessibility, and adaptability in concerns to these various perspectives of landscape. Collective Interventions represents these aforementioned themes in concept, form, and color so that the viewer and color so that the viewer may break down boundaries and preconceived notions of landscape to arrive at new understandings. Artists included in the exhibition are Ariel René Jackson, Cristina Velásquez, Crystal Z. Campbell, Dannielle Bowman, Dionne Lee, Haley Greenfeather, Leah Schretenthaler, Mosie Romney, Nick Drain and Simphiwe Ndzube.
The exhibition was curated by Charles Krampah (MFA 2022), Kalyn Barnoski (MFA 2021), Miki Skak (MFA 2023), Sky Maggiore (MFA 2023), Tay Butler (MFA 2022), and Zora J Murff (Assistant Professor of Art, Photography).
