Sherri Cornett
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    • UNITAS youth art and leadership
    • COMMUNITY GROVE
    • CONVERSATIONS AMONG WOMEN
    • FLOW Interactive Exhibition and Community Project >
      • EXHIBITION Flow
      • VOICES OF THE RIVER SYMPOSIUM Flow
      • MIXING OIL and WATER Film Night and Discussion Flow
      • WORDS ON WATER: POETRY AND JAZZ IN CONCERT Flow
      • LIVING IN HARMONY ON THE YELLOWSTONE Flow
      • YOUTH OUTREACH Flow
      • READING AREAS MSUBillings Library Flow
      • YELLOWSTONE RIVER CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ANALYSIS Flow
      • MORE TO EXPLORE Flow
      • PRESS KIT Flow
    • FOOD and CULTURE HUB East Helena
    • FOR FREEDOMS Billings >
      • FOR FREEDOMS Billings 2018 Partners and Presenters
    • THE 2020 AWAKENING BILLINGS For Freedoms 2020 >
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Robert Hall on Blood Quantum
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Indigenous Voices Films and Filmmakers Panel
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS MMIP Community Gathering
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS REDRess Exhibit
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Seeing Patterns Exhibition
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Related Events
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Partners and Presenters
    • POINTS OF MANY CONNECTIONS
    • QUEST Guest Art Facilitator
    • WHAT IS IT ABOUT MY MEMORY >
      • MEMORY CARDS What Is It About My Memory
      • SOMAS What Is It About My Memory
      • EXHIBITIONS What Is It About My Memory
    • ALTITUDE 3123 >
      • EVENTS Altitude 3123
  • CURATORIAL
    • CHINA Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang 2014 >
      • ART & ARTISTS/CHINA Half the Sky
      • ART & ARTISTS/US Half the Sky
      • CULTURAL and COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
      • DELEGATES
      • ESSAYS & ESSAYISTS
      • BLOG Half the Sky
      • TASKS, TEAMS & TIMELINES
    • GUTFREUND CORNETT ART
    • MATRIXXMODULATION Jon Lodge
    • PLANNED PARENTHOOD A Celebration of Expression: An Evening of Wine, Women and Art
    • SOUTH KOREA Woman Body Seoul and Gwangju 2012
    • WOMEN DO IT! Traveling Postcard Exhibition >
      • WOMEN DO IT Gallery
    • UNDOCUMENTED Difference in America Today
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INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS


Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Director: Sherri Cornett, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China, 2014
Woman + Body, Co-Director: Sherri Cornett, Seoul & Gwangju, South Korea, 2012

WHAT [(IS IT) ABOUT MY] MEMORY PROJECT


This evolving community memory project examines how sharing of memories connect us to our own past and to each other.  The installation includes symbolic Somas or neural bodies, each focused on a memory theme (family, homes, food, jokes, words ...).  Copper "dendrites" hold the Memory Cards, on which drawings, photographs and writings depict brief memories - humorous ones, meaningful ones, wispy threads of memory or clearly remembered ones. The installation forms a back drop to readings, performances, & workshops looking at and sharing memories from creative, community, therapeutic and scientific perspectives.

GUTFREUND CORNETT ART


An independent curatorial partnership between Sherri Cornett and Karen Gutfreund that specializes in creating exhibitions ​on themes of “art as activism” to stimulate dialog, raise consciousness, build communities and encourage social change.  Exhibitions have included: "Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration",  "Social Justice: It Happens to One, It Happens to All", "What's Right, What's Left: Democracy in America" 

COMMUNITY GROVE


Four mixed-media sculptures – Peace, Comfort, Rest and Ease – form the Community Grove within the newly named Intertribal Community Park, located at Billings First Church in Billings, Montana. I designed this as an embracement, a protective space, much like the thickets that grow along the river, that form spaces for seeds to collect, for small animals and insects to build nests. A place for listening,, healing, justice, joy and an awakening to a world where we share our experiences and commonalities and develop a curiosity and respect for our differences. 
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EAST HELENA
FOOD/CULTURE HUB


As part of an ArtPlace America Creative Placemaking Grant, I was hired as an artist facilitator to create community-engaged projects that would help East Helenans further develop a new identify after their history as a company town (ASARCO smelter) and EPA Superfund Site. Keeping in mind COVID social distancing restrictions, Krys Homes, Executive Director of The Myrna Loy Theater, Betsy Burns, East Helena EPA Director, Bri Shipman, my local creative partner and I developed two mural projects and other opportunities for residents to learn more about each other and the city and build on their resilience and strength. The East Helena Food/Culture Hub is a collaboration between the City of East Helena, The Myrna Loy, the East Helena School District, and the local office of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

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UNDOCUMENTED


featured internationally recognized artists MICHAEL TAKEO MAGRUDER and BENTLY SPANG. Each artist reflects on discourses of intolerance and belonging in the light of their family histories and current events, especially the crisis facing immigrants at the southern border of the United States.

FREEDOM SERIES


In these works, I explore physical representations of energy released from constraint. ​

 PUBLIC ART



​Community Grove
Dedicated October 12, 2010
Intertribal Community Park at Billings First Church
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Thicket 
Installed: June 7, 2019
Downtown Billings Alliance Public Art/Sculpture Under the Skypoint Program

Unearthed
Installed: July 30, 2019

Corner Minnesota Avenue and 28th Street, Billings, MT

FOR FREEDOMS
50 State Initiative Billings 
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was a  collaborative offering of community conversations, art and correlating events which will provide non-partisan forums for action and discussion of values, place, and patriotism as part of the national For Freedoms 50 States Initiative (see below) in advance of the November 2nd mid-term elections. ​

FLOW
​INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION AND COMMUNITY PROJECT


Flow was a socially-engaged project where the exhibition of art and installations set the framework and jumping off point for community conversations around water issues, rights and usage during multiple events.  Sherri Cornett, with  gallery director Dr. Leanne Gilbertson, created opportunities for community interaction, where the gallery was set up as a laboratory - a space for experimentation, dialogue and collaboration. With the exhibition and events, viewers, participants, artists, river users, and civic leaders were encouraged to think outside their own understanding and establish a more comprehensive and informed perspective about how water affects our lives and livelihoods. ​

GROTTOES SERIES


These mixed-media wall/video sculptures are shrines to aesthetic backdrops for conversations about water rights, conservation and access and the many ways water is essential to our lives and livelihoods, as reminders of water as common ground, common necessity. ​

ANCESTRESSES & WISE WOMEN 
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CONVERSATIONS AMONG WOMEN


​Sculptures symbolic of women who mentored me accompanied enclose a circle of women of various ages and backgrounds , each sharing her perspectives, making  connections,  increasing our collective wisdom and enjoying the art of conversation in a positive, supportive environment.

LENS-BASED ART


Textural explorations in video

CHRYSALIS SERIES


Symbolic, protective places into which to retreat, ask questions, seek answers and stay current with our personal truths.  ​

SEAFORM SERIES


Reflections of the give and take of the water, the interconnected webs of reef life and the enclosed completeness of my diving experiences.

STATEMENT
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Photo by Kelvin Pinney
As an artist curator with a background in political science, advocacy and activism, my exhibitions, projects, art and correlating events investigate and frame dialogue around the grand narratives used to navigate the world and our relationships, asking individuals and communities to engage with each other, question, consider and act.
© 2011 Sherri Cornett
  • HOME
  • WORKS
    • ANCESTRESSES & WISE WOMEN
    • CHRYSALIS
    • COLLABORATIONS
    • FREEDOM SERIES
    • GROTTOES
    • LENS BASED ART
    • PUBLIC ART
    • SEAFORMS
    • SHELTERS
    • TRANSFORMATIONS >
      • TRANSFORMATIONS at Kirks for Kirks
  • PROJECTS
    • UNITAS youth art and leadership
    • COMMUNITY GROVE
    • CONVERSATIONS AMONG WOMEN
    • FLOW Interactive Exhibition and Community Project >
      • EXHIBITION Flow
      • VOICES OF THE RIVER SYMPOSIUM Flow
      • MIXING OIL and WATER Film Night and Discussion Flow
      • WORDS ON WATER: POETRY AND JAZZ IN CONCERT Flow
      • LIVING IN HARMONY ON THE YELLOWSTONE Flow
      • YOUTH OUTREACH Flow
      • READING AREAS MSUBillings Library Flow
      • YELLOWSTONE RIVER CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ANALYSIS Flow
      • MORE TO EXPLORE Flow
      • PRESS KIT Flow
    • FOOD and CULTURE HUB East Helena
    • FOR FREEDOMS Billings >
      • FOR FREEDOMS Billings 2018 Partners and Presenters
    • THE 2020 AWAKENING BILLINGS For Freedoms 2020 >
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Robert Hall on Blood Quantum
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Indigenous Voices Films and Filmmakers Panel
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS MMIP Community Gathering
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS REDRess Exhibit
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Seeing Patterns Exhibition
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Related Events
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Partners and Presenters
    • POINTS OF MANY CONNECTIONS
    • QUEST Guest Art Facilitator
    • WHAT IS IT ABOUT MY MEMORY >
      • MEMORY CARDS What Is It About My Memory
      • SOMAS What Is It About My Memory
      • EXHIBITIONS What Is It About My Memory
    • ALTITUDE 3123 >
      • EVENTS Altitude 3123
  • CURATORIAL
    • CHINA Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang 2014 >
      • ART & ARTISTS/CHINA Half the Sky
      • ART & ARTISTS/US Half the Sky
      • CULTURAL and COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
      • DELEGATES
      • ESSAYS & ESSAYISTS
      • BLOG Half the Sky
      • TASKS, TEAMS & TIMELINES
    • GUTFREUND CORNETT ART
    • MATRIXXMODULATION Jon Lodge
    • PLANNED PARENTHOOD A Celebration of Expression: An Evening of Wine, Women and Art
    • SOUTH KOREA Woman Body Seoul and Gwangju 2012
    • WOMEN DO IT! Traveling Postcard Exhibition >
      • WOMEN DO IT Gallery
    • UNDOCUMENTED Difference in America Today
  • WRITING
    • ESSAYS
    • JOURNALISM
    • BLOG Memories and Musings
    • OTHER WRITING
  • ABOUT
    • EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
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    • CONTACT/NEWSLETTER