Join us for an opening reception in The Galleries on Friday, October 9 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., celebrating two exhibitions by Moore alumni.
Michelle Angela Ortiz '00: STORIES OF US
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, large-scale 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.
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STORIES OF US is curated by Erica F. Battle, BATTLE Projects, for The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia. Funding provided by The Hearthland Foundation.
e bond '96: Language Studies
On view in the Alumni Gallery through November 7, e bond presents Language Studies, an exhibition of fabric collections and letterpress prints centered on typography and the written word. Working across textile and print, bond investigates language as both material and meaning, treating letterforms and text as physical objects to be constructed, layered and reimagined. The resulting works invite viewers to slow down and consider how written language shapes the way we see, read and understand the world around us.
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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.
