Museum of Art

Please join us for a panel discussion with four artists featured in the new Across Common Grounds exhibition will discuss the challenges and advantages of living and working in rural areas instead of urban centers. The panel is composed of artists Sarah Ahmad, Dawn Holder, Amber Imrie and Shey Rí Acu Rivera Ríos.

• Sarah Ahmad (she/her; from Pakistan; currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Pakistan and now based in Tulsa, Oklahoma who investigates site and the natural world to encourage healing and visualize the layered identities of the immigrant experience.
• Dawn Holder (she/her; from Georgia; currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana) melds ceramics and found objects to document and discuss issues of entanglement between man-and-nature-made everyday landscapes. 
• Amber Imrie (they/she; from and currently lives in the Ozarks) uses their background growing up in a back-to-the-lander family in the Arkansas Ozarks to intertwine practices of textile arts with photography to address concepts of labor and leisure, and “queer” the landscape by suggesting alternative forms of care models. 
• Shey Rí Acu Rivera Ríos (they/them; from Borikén/Puerto Rico; currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, land of Narragansett and Wompanoag peoples) uses interdisciplinary works to connect communities suffering from the impacts of overarching colonial and capitalist narratives by drawing in aspects of home and belonging