Ossuary

University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery; Knoxville, TN

October 4 – 26, 2013

This traveling exhibit, entitled Ossuary, is the brainchild of Professor Laurie Beth Clark of the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Over a period of 2 years she has collected works from nearly 300 contributing artists. I had the opportunity to assist with the installation of this show in Knoxville, TN. Although this required taking time away from school and making up lost studio time, I jumped at the chance to get on the road and become involved in a new experience. Thankfully with 5 people at work, the installation of close to 300 artworks was an achievable goal.

Laurie Beth Clark is a professor and curator in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

“Ossuary was inspired by the repositories of bones that have accrued in countries like Cambodia and Rwanda where mass violence has taken place. But Ossuary is not a project about those traumas. Rather, artists counter images of pain with hopeful or poignant rejoinders. Envisioning hope for the world is one of the things that art can do.”