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WHAT [(IS IT) ABOUT MY] MEMORY PROJECTThis 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.
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FREEDOM SERIESIn these works, I explore physical representations of energy released from constraint.
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COMMUNITY GROVEFour 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
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FOR FREEDOMS
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INTERNATIONAL PROJECTSHalf 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 |
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FLOW
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GROTTOES SERIESThese 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.
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GUTFREUND CORNETT ARTAn 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"
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UNDOCUMENTEDfeatured 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.
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PUBLIC ARTCommunity Grove Dedicated October 12, 2010 Intertribal Community Park at Billings First Church 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 |
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ANCESTRESSES & WISE WOMEN
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LENS-BASED ARTTextural explorations in video
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CHRYSALIS SERIESSymbolic, protective places into which to retreat, ask questions, seek answers and stay current with our personal truths.
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SEAFORM SERIESReflections of the give and take of the water, the interconnected webs of reef life and the enclosed completeness of my diving experiences.
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STATEMENT
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.
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