Examining the State of Our Environment: 20/21 Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, September 5th
Either Wrong or Right, Just Examine: Examining the State of Our Environment
Co-curated by Alpha M. Bruton and Adero Knott
The Evanston Art Center (EAC), an artistic hub on the North Shore for over ninety years, believes that some communities are all too rarely represented in the curatorial world. To address this situation, the EAC has developed a recurrent, project-based position for a BIPOC curator with ties to the Evanston community to develop an exhibition of their choosing. It is the EAC’s intent that such an exhibit will both build new ties to historically underrepresented groups as well as introduce Evanston and the greater Chicago area to new curatorial and artistic perspectives.
Alpha Bruton and Adero Knott’s artistic vision entails an intergenerational curatorial practice that seeks to provide a model for emerging and established curators to innovate in curating inclusive experience, gain practical curating experience and critically reflect on how their curatorial style will imprint on the Evanston community and the world. Exhibiting artists will examine the state of their environment in society through themes of Racism, Spirituality, Documentation and Art as Wellness.
Throughout the exhibition, Bruton and Adero will invite artists and the Evanston Art Center community to participate in a series of public dialogues facilitated by Knott and the exhibiting artists. These dialogues will explore ways artists examine their environment through themes of Racism, Spirituality, Documentation and Art as Wellness, as well as the intersection of art and social justice – how does identity and intersectionality affect our lived experiences, as seen in the practice of an artist?
FEATURED ARTISTS
Daphne Burgess
Talver Germany-Miller
Liz Gomez
Tracie Hall
Caryl Henry Alexander
LaKesha Howard
Candace Hunter
AK Larissa Johnson
Petra Kuppers
Shonna McDaniels
Sandy Steinbrecher
Andrea Yarbrough
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the First Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). All visitors are required to wear face masks. Please adhere to 6′ social distancing requirements when in the gallery space.
Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday: 1 pm – 6 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 9 am – 4 pm
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Tags: Adero Knott, AK Larissa Johnson, Alpha M. Bruton, Andrea Yarbrough, Candace Hunter, Caryl Henry Alexander, Daphne Burgess, Evanston, Evanston Art Center, Examining the State of Our Environment: 20/21 Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition, LaKesha Howard, Liz Gomez, Petra Kuppers, Sandy Steinbrecher, Shonna McDaniels, Talver Germany-Miller, Tracie Hall
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