Exhibitions
The Collective’s exhibition program helps prepare emerging artists for a professional career and also serves to increase interest in artistic work and creativity.
Mid-career and more experienced local and international artists often participate in the exhibitions to encourage/be accessible to the emerging artists and expand their markets.
Artists are also introduced to other adjunct aspects of the arts universe beyond production of their work, which broaden their understanding of the interdependence of the industry. We also plan exhibitions in collaboration with other entities at other venues.
Exhibitions are instructive to the viewers in that they have the opportunity to glimpse the variety of talent, especially in the local arts community, and appreciate/recognize the many forms in which the talents are manifested. We are open to working with other entities to increase the development of venues to support the public display of work (especially) by African American artists.
Exhibitions Archive
What Would Not I Give | Jean Shon
October 11 - November 22
Opening Reception & Poetry Reading | October 11 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Closing & Artist Talk | November 22 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Jean Shon is a visual artist and educator working at the intersection of images, text, installation, and photography. Her work lingers between the thresholds of legibility & illegibility, rupture & relation, and fact & fiction in order to sustain connection through loss. She often employs family and community artifacts as immediate vessels to the intimate and familiar. Through subtle manipulation and regeneration, the work is pared down to its essence, asking us to redefine our relationships to a being, a space, a notion, a thing. She, in turn, is creating a new archive—a speculative one based upon her evolving relationship with the material. Rather than being reduced to static archival relics, her work opens up space to reconstruct memory in perpetuity.
As a second-generation daughter, designated memory keeper, and family link—Shon is perpetually negotiating the burden of debt, guilt, and obligation with her kin. Her work is a testament to this struggle: piecing together fragments and residue in order to understand, honor, and carry forward who and what came before us.
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On View
ARTrepreneurship Workshop Series
ARTrepreneurship Workshop Series is a program within the Community Artists' Collective Entrepreneurship Pillar and is designed to spotlight professional artists who share their artistic journey and career path in conversation with CAC Leadership. The overall goal is to provide insight into what it takes to achieve the level of a professional artist and how to prepare for the journey. Support for the workshop series was supported by H-E-B.