Chintia Kirana is a Chinese-Indonesian-American artist and educator (occasional curator). Temporal Spectra is a project where art, music, science, and our humanities intertwine with one another. This work explores our inner being and our connectivity with one another. Kirana will record the brainwaves of Montgomery’s people under the prompts “what does hope mean to you?” and “what do you hope for?”. to create color and sound waves: video art, musical composition.
Tyler Jones is a filmmaker and founding member of 1504, a narrative studio. This short film will chronicle the making of a sculpture and its connection to the place, while asking: How might art be part of the healing process? How do artists work in complex spaces like this?
A team of artists, Karen Brummund, Allison Grant, and Holland Hopson propose to use the Verdant Grant to mount a multi-part public installation in our neighborhood of downtown Tuscaloosa that examines air quality and the experience of breathing as a place where the individual body interfaces with it’s surroundings.
The Black Cherry Tree Project aims to address racial reconciliation through the memorialization of the 33 African-Americans who were lynched in Jefferson County between the mid-to-late 1800s and the mid 1900s. Artist Carey Fountain is organizing a monthly series of community conversations and 33 black cherry tree saplings to be planted to honor each respective victim and create productive dialogue around race and justice in the spirit of community unification.
Wendy DesChene is a Canadian-born artist of indigenous Métis heritage working in Alabama. This project will visually represent the reclamation of indigenous artwork and identities through a new series of digital paintings, animations, and oil paintings that narrate the story of repossession after colonialism.
Jasmine Cannon is an award-winning filmmaker and documentarian from Alabama. Black Southern Woman is a multimedia documentary project featuring Black women based in the deep South. This project takes audiences through a journey of the lives of these women whose stories would likely otherwise go untold.
Multi-disciplinary artist Tony M. Bingham explores the tradition of black baptisms in Hurricane and Big Sandy Creeks also sites on the Black Warrior river. Shadow Stories at the Riverside School, Northport, Alabama is a two-part exhibition, leading to the creation of a permanent site-specific Public Art work.
Douglas Pierre Baulos is a queer artist living in Irondale Alabama. They will create a series of 7 cloth narratives and an accompanying catalog/workbook that would navigate their interests in book narratives, Alabama biodiversity, extinction of species, and vulnerability and suicide risks among the LGBTQI community.
Indigenous artist Alex Alvarez will create a medicine cup from the Lightning Whelk shell, used during ceremonies to ingest and wash off with herbal elixirs. This shell is only found in the Gulf of Mexico. Like this shell, the people of the Gulf region shared a bond far beyond locality.
