Borders and Boundaries
a solo exhibition at Pleiades Gallery,
547 W 27th St., NYC, 10001
June 11-July 6, 2024
Heather Stivison: Borders and Boundaries was a solo exhibition of interdisciplinary works exploring both current and historical issues of migration and border wars.
In addition to artist talks in the gallery, this exhibit was enhanced by special programs that related to the narratives in the exhibition including guest speaker and a poetry reading.
Installation Views
Other. Graphite on Archival paper. 20×30 inches
The drawing from this exhibition, Other, has been awarded the
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Medal of Honor Award for Works on Paper
by the National Association of Women Artists
Works from this series have also been in on view in the following exhibitions:
Social Justice at Gallery X, New Bedford, Massachusetts;
NHAA Biennial, Portsmouth, New Hampshire;
FALL OF FREEDOM: Freedom of Expression, a Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) national online art exhibition;
When in the Course of Human Events…, at the Bristol Art Museum, Bristol Rhode Island.
National Association of Women Artists, Inc. 136th Annual Members Exhibition, Leonovich Gallery, New York, New York;
EXHIBITION-RELATED PROGRAMMING AND INTERVIEWS:
Art & History in the Gallery
On Saturday, June 15, 2024, Award Winning Historian and Author Tyler Anbinder joined Heather Stivison in a dialogue on City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Click to view the recording
Read an interview about the creation of this series of works published in CONSEQUENCE FORUM or download the text-only version
Ekphrasis! Poets Respond to Art in the Gallery
Poets submitted original works, written in response to artworks on view and presented them in a poetry reading on Saturday, July 6, 2024.
Winning poets included: Colin Bell of East Sussex, UK; David Burr of Maplewood, New Jersey; Diana Cole of Warren, Rhode Island; James Cronin, of Westport Massachusetts; Giles Edgerton of Brooklyn, New York; Farah Faizi of Poughkeepsie, New York; Mary-Jane Grandinetti of Passaic, New Jersey; Dana Hunter of Montclair, New Jersey; Elizabeth Levine of Wayne, New Jersey; and Julianne Valdepenas of Parkville, Maryland.
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