Sculpture

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Amber Capwell 2025
(2025-11-17) Capwell, Amber
Endangered Tarot is an interdisciplinary career-spanning installation project that reimagines the Tarot as a framework for ecological reflection. By embedding endangered and threatened species within archetypal cards I aim to merge symbolism, mythology, and conceptual research to create a space for dialogue on extinction, resilience, and interdependence. Over time, the project will expand into a complete Tarot deck representing species from five countries, bridging global ecological narratives through art. As an artist whose practice is cultivated through a desire to share knowledge and passion for the intersection of art, ecology, and social systems, this project is helping me to develop a research practice that prioritizes the urgency of our climate crisis by composing visual testaments to the interconnectedness of humanity and nature. Endangered Tarot aims to synthesize my understanding of scientific knowledge and ecological crises into more accessible visual language, referring to the Tarot as an enduring symbolic system through the lens of threatened and endangered life. By weaving together conceptual research, symbolism, and collective participation, this project and each of it’s iterations become both a personal act of stewardship and an invitation for audiences to confront loss, imagine resilience, and recognize our place in the shared story of survival.
Casey Ellson 2025
(2025) Ellson, Casey
The content of this work looks into my past, where childhood abuse took place from around the ages of 8–15. The intent behind this work is to take the poems that I wrote during this time and poems that I have written to my younger self and bring them into physical space. In doing this, it allows me to process what I went through so I can begin to heal from my childhood trauma.
Ari Albertson 2025
(2025-11-19) Albertson, Ari
"synovia" is rooted in a clay practice I've been engaging in for the past year where I work with my eyes closed. Working in this way puts me into a unique and immersive flow state, and a direct tactile relationship with the material, resulting in forms that are surprising, intimate, and exciting. I consider this clay practice an extension of dance. Free expressive movement, whether at an ecstatic dance gathering or at the club, is one major access point for me to this state of embodied presence, or flow, or what I'm calling betweenity (a term I've adapted from Loren Chasse). Betweenity is characterized by a balance of embodiment, transcendence, groundedness, and interpermeability. Betweenity is interested in the ever-emergent rather than assumptions and preconceptions. I'm interested in the dancefloor as one access point to betweenity. I'm interested in the somatosensory experience of the dancefloor, of the sounds, lights, colors, feelings and motions of the dancefloor. I'm also interested in a theoretical expansion of the dancefloor as a conceptual site, a site of potentiality, a space for chance, experimentation, transformation, chimaerical and alchemical amalgamation. The furthest and most ambitious extensions of this inquiry ask what it might mean to see the dancefloor, and the betweenity it reveals, as a possible paradigm, a way of acting and interacting that might lead us into a more just, sensitive, radical and subversive sensibility. Formally, "synovia" is a sound and sculpture installation, consisting of 18 ceramic sculptures suspended through the space, many of which contain small speakers. The sound installation consists of subtle sounds moving around the space via these tiny speakers as well as a foundation of low-frequency sound played through a subwoofer. The installation is meant to invoke betweenity and the dancefloor in a highly abstracted manner – the formal choices are intended to evoke sensations of interaction, intimacy, inhabiting your body among other bodies, and feelings of perceptual relation: distance, proximity, and the space between these relations.
Yvette Kinyon 2025
(2025-04-18) Kinyon, Yvette
Disappearing Stories refers to the unseen impact we have when we lose individuals in our lives and nature. When an animal loses a loved one it impacts them in similar ways we are impacted.

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