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Through its Museum as Classroom approach, the University of Wyoming Art Museum places art at the center of learning for all ages, supports the academic mission of the University, assists in preparing our future workforce with essential skills, and enhances the cultural life of Wyoming’s citizens and visitors.
Katie Hargrave and Meredith Laura Lynn’s artwork is grounded in their shared interest in the outdoors. They explore the cultures surrounding and mitigating our experiences of public lands. Beneath all the “poking fun” at the history and culture of outdoorsmanship in the U.S. lies Hargrave and Lynn’s deep and abiding love for these spaces. Within the context of Sympoiesis: Co-Creating Sense of Place, Hargrave and Lynn work together to engage with contemporary culture and art historical legacies to create new narratives about who public lands are for and how people experience them.
Patrick Kikut served as the lead artist on the Sesquicentennial Colorado River Exploring Expedition (SCREE) in 2019 – one-hundred-fifty years to the day after the famous explorer John Wesley Powell undertook a similar journey. The watercolors and large-scale oil paintings on view provide a visual journey down the Colorado River, amplified by the presence of one of the 18-foot rafts employed on the SCREE trip. Kikut’s landscapes, created as a result of this intense interaction with nature and other collaborators, are inherently and necessarily an act of sympoiesis, of making-with.
Multimedia artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, known collectively as LigoranoReese, have worked across various media throughout their 40-year collaboration. Their projects often engage with current events, ranging from public monuments made of ice that intentionally melt in place to fiber optic data tapestries that respond to the real-time flow of digital information. Their latest works, featured in Sympoiesis: Co-Creating Sense of Place, explore the exhibition’s central theme of collaborative creation and the dynamic, interconnected systems that shape our world.
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