Rosewood Arts Center

Amanda Bradley’s Notations from Home is an ongoing body of work and archive that uses photography as a language, in which the camera becomes a tool for note-taking, discovery, and relationship building. The images encapsulate the sentiments of belonging and home through a long view of landscape across geography and time.

Bradley explores water and land as critical spaces of history, imagination, and memory. The work is deeply rooted in navigating the duality of her sense of identity as a first-generation American, tethered to two lands and moving through the waters between them. Growing up between Miami, FL, and Belize, Bradley is anchored at the intersection of diaspora, migration, and memory, with photography allowing her to build connections across geographies. Her photographs investigate how landscape can function as a visual threshold, embracing movement through time, memory, and belonging. The work ultimately asks: what dictates a memory, and what do individuals attach their own histories to?

Artists: Amanda Bradley

Cost: Free to the Public

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In The North Fork, Trent Davis Bailey intertwines childhood memories with images and moments from family farms on Colorado’s Western Slope. “The North Fork” comes from the name locals use to broadly describe the agrarian valley in which they live, which is situated on Colorado’s Western Slope and irrigated by the North Fork of the Gunnison River.

In addition to The North Fork series, a selection of archival photographs depicting the same region is on view. Included are prints by two Farm Security Administration photographers, Russell Lee and Arthur Rothstein, as well as lesser-known photographers whose prints are held in the archives of a local historical society, weaving together past and present. Suggesting the arc of history in the region, as well as the artist’s long-standing connection with the place, this exhibition demonstrates how Bailey’s work connects with a photographic and historic lineage while also serving as a tool for self-discovery.

Artists: Trent Davis Bailey

Cost: Free to the Public

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