Agustin Collazo Jr., Through the Captain’s Spyglass, 2021. From the 2021 Breaking Barriers veterans photography workshop.
STILL in MOTION
December 9-10, 2021
USF Contemporary Art Museum
USF Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present the exhibition Breaking Barriers: Still in Motion as part of arts programming to military veterans. Breaking Barriers: Still in Motion brings together the art of seventeen U.S. veterans. As a result of two intensive artist-lead photography and video workshops, the exhibition includes a selection of thirty-seven photographs and nine videos. Through the artist’s lens, we are offered an intimate look at the quotidian, personal places and spaces, memories, and narratives by means of objects and landscapes. The artwork represents a vast range of photographic experience, from learning to use a camera, to professional photographers accomplished with film but starting fresh with digital technology or video, as well as those who have no prior art experience at all. Unique to this exhibition is the fact that all the photographs and videos were created and edited with the artists’ own cellphone cameras.
Artists in the exhibition are James Alexander, Roxi Cato, Wildalys Class, Agustin Collazo Jr., Michael Congdon, Giovanna Delacruz, Amanda Dodd, Dwight English, Loretta Fields, Dawn S. Hargrett, Evan Fountain, Mark Freeman, Robert Kidney, Mikko Maki, Matias, Alicia Morales, and RaeAnne Swanson. We are deeply grateful to all the veterans who were courageous and persistent enough to engage in the workshops and create their own photographic images. Their artwork creates a visual platform that changes the culture of the “silent veteran,” into a storyteller, a witness, and amplifies the veteran voice within a larger community.
Reception
December 10, 6:30pm
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Join us for an in-person reception with Still in Motion artists and Christian Cortés, Leslie Elsasser, and Selina Román. Visitors to the museum are expected to wear masks and practice social distancing
STILL in MOTION
ONLINE PRESENTATION
Still in Motion Home // Leslie Elsasser - Introduction // Selina Roman - Mind Currents // Christian Cortes
PHOTOGRAPHY
Roxi Cato - US Army // Wildalys Class - US Air Force // Agustin Collazo Jr. - US Navy and Marine Corps // Michael Congdon - US Army // Giovanna Delacruz - US Air Force // Amanda Dodd - US Army // Dawn S. Hargrett - US Navy // Evan Fountain - US Air Force // Mark Freeman - US Army // Robert Kidney - US Coast Guard // Mikko Maki - US Marine Corps // Alicia Morales - US Army // RaeAnne Swanson - US Air Force
VIDEO
James Alexander - US Air Force // Wildalys Class - US Air Force // Dwight English - US Army // Loretta Fields - US Army // Mikko Maki - US Marine Corps // Matias - US Marine Corps
STILL IN MOTION CATALOGUE
A 54pp catalogue documenting Still in Motion is available HERE as free PDF or HERE as a print on demand publication on lulu.com for $15 plus tax and shipping.
For more information:
Email Leslie Elsasser at lelsasse@usf.edu
Breaking Barriers is a project by USFCAM in collaboration with the USF School of Art and Art History, with Support from the USF Office of Veterans Success, Community Arts Impact Grant Program of the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Love IV Lawrence 2020 Waves of Change Grant, and additional support from the ACE Arts for Community Engagement Fund and the Florida Department of State.
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