ProjectArt Presents

This exhibition brings together three ProjectArt artists whose work centers on storytelling, lived experience, and connection through a wide range of materials and approaches.

Across installation, painting, prints, and text, the work explores how personal and collective histories are shaped by family, community, and place. Themes of social awareness, growth, and transformation run throughout, alongside a focus on everyday moments and shared human experiences like childhood, memory, and belonging.

The ProjectArt Resident Artists use layered processes that embrace experimentation, imperfection, and reuse. Found objects, collage, text, and interactive elements create a space that feels both intimate and open, where stories can be held, discovered, and reinterpreted. The libraries act as anchors within this exhibition and the ProjectArt program, reflecting the role as sites of gathering, access, and change within the community.

Student work is woven throughout, reinforcing the importance of youth voice, creativity, and collective participation. Together, the ProjectArt exhibition highlights art as a tool for reflection, dialogue, and connection, offering a space where individual experiences come together to form something larger.

Anna-Grace used inspiration from their teaching community to create a corresponding showcase of both physical and emotional spaces. They use digital library resources to composite collage images that depict the experiences, both personal and non-personal, of learning and loving one’s community. They also took classroom experiments with texture and painting to create three pieces of varying mediums, including coarse additives and recycled newspaper. These works, combined with the creations of their students, create a village of collaboration!

Brooklynne’s ensemble encompasses compositions of hope, affirmation, reflection, and joy through an engaging narrative-centric approach. Her focus on creative flow and authentic communication stems from everyday interactions, expressed through various forms, from illustrative print to sculpture. Meaningful dialogue, coupled with shared creative efforts, enables her students to co-create pieces that reflect their collective voice while nurturing their individual stories.