Sherri Cornett
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    • TRANSFORMATIONS at Kirks for Kirks
    • UNITAS youth art and leadership
    • WHAT IS IT ABOUT MY MEMORY Community Engaged Installation >
      • MEMORY CARDS What Is It About My Memory
      • SOMAS What Is It About My Memory
      • EXHIBITIONS What Is It About My Memory
    • FOOD and CULTURE HUB East Helena
    • 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
    • FOR FREEDOMS Billings >
      • FOR FREEDOMS Billings 2018 Partners and Presenters
    • 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
    • POINTS OF MANY CONNECTIONS
    • QUEST Guest Art Facilitator
    • 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
    • UNDOCUMENTED Difference in America Today
    • GUTFREUND CORNETT ART
    • SOUTH KOREA Woman Body Seoul and Gwangju 2012
    • MATRIXXMODULATION Jon Lodge
    • PLANNED PARENTHOOD A Celebration of Expression: An Evening of Wine, Women and Art
    • WOMEN DO IT! Traveling Postcard Exhibition >
      • WOMEN DO IT Gallery
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CURATORIAL/PROJECT DIRECTOR
Samples of community-engaged projects
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FOR FREEDOMS 50 STATE INITIATIVE BILLINGS
Town Halls and Freedom Lawn Sign Installations Director: Sherri Cornett
Billings, MT, September/October 2018
As part of the national ForFreedoms.org 50 State Initiative, Cornett directed a collaborative offering of community conversations, art and correlating events which will provided non- partisan forums for action and discussion of values, place, and patriotism as part of the national For Freedoms 50 States Initiative in advance of the November 2nd mid-term elections.
  • National For Freedoms: https://forfreedoms.org/
  • Main web page: https://www.sherricornett.com/for-freedoms-billings.html
  • Native American Race Relations & Healing Series with speakers Northern Cheyenne Tribal Judge John Robinson and former Montana State Legislator Carolyn Lopez (Crow reservation) and community conversation about indigenous issues
  • Free to Be Me: Diversity at MSUB with leaders from non-traditional student groups
  • The Dinners Project (part of Creative Capital) – conversation with are artists
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BEYOND BORDERS: STORIES OF IM/MIGRATION
Exhibition and Community Events
Co-Curator: Sherri Cornett/Gutfreund Cornett Art (independent curators) Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, January 8, 2018 to April 6, 2018
  • Main web page: https://www.gutfreundcornettart.com/info-beyond-borders.html
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SOCIAL JUSTICE: IT HAPPENS TO ONE, IT HAPPENS TO ALL
Exhibition and Community Events
Co-Curator: Sherri Cornett/Gutfreund Cornett Art (independent curators)
Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, Morago, California, September 18 - December 11, 2016
  • Main web page: https://www.gutfreundcornettart.com/info-social-justice.html
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FLOW: INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION AND COMMUNITY PROJECT
Director: Sherri Cornett
Northcutt Steele Gallery, Montana State University Billings, Billings, MT, January 28 - March 18, 2016
Flow was a socially-engaged project where the exhibition of art and installations (including Cornett’s Grottoes series and works from students and alumni) set the framework and jumping off point for community conversations around water issues, rights and usage during multiple events and engaged cross-disciplinary students and faculty from both area universities, youth outreach, related organizations and culminated in a symposium focused on the Yellowstone River Cumulative Effects Analysis, the most comprehensive watershed study in the world.
  • Main page: https://www.sherricornett.com/flow-interactive-exhibition-and-community- project.html
  • Exhibition page: https://www.sherricornett.com/exhibition-flow.html
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HALF THE SKY: INTERSECTIONS IN SOCIAL PRACTICE ART
Exhibition and Cultural Exchange for Women's Caucus for Art Director: Sherri Cornett
LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China, April 15 - 30, 2014
Wei Er Shen, President of LuXun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China invited the Women’s Caucus for Art to create an art-based cultural exchange and exhibition for women artists focusing on feminist art. Thirteen US based delegate artists created interactive events on topics such as rape and domestic violence, participated in a roundtable with Chinese artists and engaged students and community in this traditionally conservative part of China.
Cornett, with Sandra Mueller, created a center piece dome, “Points of Many Connections” in which visitors were invited to write their names and how they hold up their communities on lengths of fabric that were added to the dome structure.

  • Main web page: https://www.sherricornett.com/china-half-the-sky-intersections-in- social-practice-art-luxun-academy-of-fine-arts-shenyang-2014.html
  • PDF of Open Engagement In Conversation Blog in advance of presentation at 2015 Open Engagement conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania file://localhost/Users/sherricornett/Desktop/Sherri Cornett_Open Engagement In Conversation Blog_2015_Half the Sky project.html
  • Documentation Video created by Mido Lee https://vimeo.com/109550092
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ANCESTRESSES & WISE WOMEN/CONVERSATIONS AMONG WOMEN
Project Director and Artist: Sherri Cornett

Exhibition and Community Conversations about women’s issues presented as solo project and in group shows
Multiple venues in Montana and Idaho, 2008-2011
  • Main page for Ancestresses & Wise Women: https://www.sherricornett.com/ancestresses-
-wise-women.html
  • Main page for Conversations Among Women: https://www.sherricornett.com/conversations-among-women.html
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© 2011 Sherri Cornett
  • HOME
  • WORKS
    • TRANSFORMATIONS
    • FREEDOM SERIES
    • PUBLIC ART
    • GROTTOES
    • CHRYSALIS
    • COLLABORATIONS
    • LENS BASED ART
    • ANCESTRESSES & WISE WOMEN
    • SEAFORMS
    • SHELTERS
  • PROJECTS
    • TRANSFORMATIONS at Kirks for Kirks
    • UNITAS youth art and leadership
    • WHAT IS IT ABOUT MY MEMORY Community Engaged Installation >
      • MEMORY CARDS What Is It About My Memory
      • SOMAS What Is It About My Memory
      • EXHIBITIONS What Is It About My Memory
    • FOOD and CULTURE HUB East Helena
    • 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
    • FOR FREEDOMS Billings >
      • FOR FREEDOMS Billings 2018 Partners and Presenters
    • 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
    • POINTS OF MANY CONNECTIONS
    • QUEST Guest Art Facilitator
    • 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
    • UNDOCUMENTED Difference in America Today
    • GUTFREUND CORNETT ART
    • SOUTH KOREA Woman Body Seoul and Gwangju 2012
    • MATRIXXMODULATION Jon Lodge
    • PLANNED PARENTHOOD A Celebration of Expression: An Evening of Wine, Women and Art
    • WOMEN DO IT! Traveling Postcard Exhibition >
      • WOMEN DO IT Gallery
  • WRITING
    • ESSAYS
    • JOURNALISM
    • BLOG Memories and Musings
    • OTHER WRITING
  • ABOUT
    • EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
    • BIO/CV
    • CONTACT/NEWSLETTER