Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts Galleries

Developed by the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum at Miami University, the Culture Crops project engages Cincinnati-based fine art photographer Tina Gutierrez to conduct site visits and create a series of photographic portraits that celebrate the history and diversity of Ohio’s food-growing communities. Culture Crops includes stories of Indigenous, immigrant, and local community and family farmers and the history of the food they produce. The project raises awareness of the depth and breadth of Ohio residents and the land they cultivate across Southwest Ohio. The resulting series of photographic portraits and video interviews tell the stories of these present-day Ohioans, their experiences growing food, and the history of farming traditions. The exhibition is accompanied by a documentary film by Asa Featherstone IV.

Artists: Asa Featherstone IV, Tina Gutierrez

With Jason E. Shaiman (curator)

Cost: Free to the Public

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This Land, Here We Dwell focuses on contemporary photographers in the United States who engage with time and land as both subject and material. The featured artists incorporate meditations on the land and environment as part of their practice, encompassing historical ecologies, current climates, and imagined futures. Within their studies of the land, each artist also embraces time as a critical element of photographic language and integrates time as material, subject, and methodology. Artists employ long exposures and moving images, research-based practices, and ephemeral materials during repeated visits with their subjects. Based throughout the United States, these photographers unveil rich knowledge of the different ecosystems within the country and how these environments inform our daily lives.

Artists: Anna Rotty, Anne Eder, Elizabeth Ransom, Heather Palecek, Julia C. Martin, Leah Sobsey, Lindsay Godin, Rosalba Breazeale

With Kelsey Nolin (curator)

Cost: Free to the Public

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