CURATORIAL/PROJECT DIRECTOR
Samples of community-engaged projects​
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
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
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
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.
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
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 -wise-women.html