Projects

Twenty Two Reviews, 2010

Twenty Two Reviews is an exhibition about art, labor and motherhood presenting work by nine artists accompanied by a unique audio guide. The audio guide was created from interviews conducted with each artist about her experiences balancing creative work and motherhood. Participating artists are authors, painters, sculptors, poets, cultural workers and arts educators. Some participants are parenting newborns, while others parent college age children. The interviews were conducted over several months in 2009 and 2010. This project was presented in the Krannert Art Museum and was organized to intervene in the institutional space of the museum. Click here for the project website.

Milemarkers, 2009

Milemarkers, part of the Art Makes Place Public Art series in Nashville, TN, is a digital media project combining animated text and photography to tell the story of a community. Produced in collaboration with the Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Center, it follows the accomplishments of the Aphasia Group, their spouses, and their therapists. Twenty six participants chose an object to mark a point of progress and a point of communication. Then they wrote a companion text describing the object and their experiences with the Aphasia Group.

Aphasia is a communication disorder that does not effect intelligence. It is often brought on by a stroke but can appear for a variety of reasons. For more information visit the National Aphasia Association's website.The project is designed to be displayed on digital signage displays on the medical campus, interrupting the usual advertising messages with a more personal experience. It has been displayed at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the Vanderbit Medical Campus, and the Nashville Public Library.

I can't do it alone, I'm going to need your help, 2009

I can't do it alone, I'm going to need your help is an installation of handmade speakers, specifically designed to play a composition arranged from field recordings of bucket drums recorded in the fall of 2009.

A thing in common, 2009

A thing in common begins with the idea that we need a thing in common to communicate and offers to be that thing. To use take one card and offer it to someone you would like to talk to, then hold onto the card after then other person accepts your initial offer. This action creates a instant common space.

Made in an edition of 100 on a Vandercook letter press at the University of Illinois, each thing in common is the approximate size of a business card for maximum portability.

Stills from the project are below, to see the complete videos click here.

One Landscape for Another: Ghost Mountain, 2009

Ghost Mountain,is a site-specific installation imagining the ability to call up the ghost of landscape destroyed by mountain top removal coal mining through the electric power grid. The installation includes the soundpiece: 6 Semis Per Day, recorded at the Abbott Power Plant on the University of Illinois campus. The sound piece title refers to the amount of coal used in producing steam in electricity per day.
Materials: sheets, electric cable, LED bulbs.