Join us for the opening reception of Michelle Angela Ortiz '00: STORIES OF US on Friday, October 9th from 5:30-7:30pm.
Bringing together public projects and studio works that span Michelle Angela Ortiz’s 25-year career for the first time, this exhibition explores how the artist’s pioneering collaborative approach centers stories of family, immigration, and community as powerful tools of visibility and resistance. Ortiz’s work in Philadelphia and around the world reveals how individual narratives and collective experience become inextricable from one another in the pursuit of freedom, dignity, and belonging in the face of oppression. From intimate works reflecting on her familial heritage to publicly sited largescale interventions, Ortiz—a celebrated Moore alum—questions and reclaims whose stories are told, believed, and venerated. By doing so, she asks us to become active participants in the production of history through the lens of our own experiences.
Read more about the exhibition and Michelle Angela Ortiz.
This exhibition is curated by Erica F. Battle, BATTLE Projects, for The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia.
Funding for this exhibition was provided by the Hearthland Foundation.
Image: WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, 90-foot painting installed in front of the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building, 2015. Photo by Steve
Weinik, courtesy of the artist.
