This is about my Lincoln Project Part of the Lincoln Legacies Artist Residency
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Press Release
University of Illinois Springfield presents “Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies,”
An innovative physical and digital art exhibit “Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies,” an innovative physical and digital art exhibit funded by the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and Humanities. Presented in conjunction with the UIS Center for Lincoln Studies, the UIS Visual Arts Gallery, the Springfield Art Association and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, “Making Our History” is the culmination of a yearlong virtual residency project. Over the past year, twenty Illinois artists have been in a virtual residency with the UIS Center for Lincoln Studies to create twenty original artworks on Lincoln’s legacies under the guidance of Professors Graham Peck and Brytton Bjorngaard.
The art will be exhibited at UIS Visual Arts Gallery, the Springfield Art Association and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library from Thursday, Aug. 11 through Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. Accompanying the art will be twenty professionally produced short videos documenting the artistic process and the artists ’interpretations of Lincoln’s legacies. The artists have been selected from throughout the state and their work varies in form, method, concept and perspective. The exhibit will showcase original paintings, sculptures, prints, photography, virtual reality, conceptual and video art. The artists will address the many Lincolns that inhabit our culture and speak to us still: the frontier Lincoln, the family man, the politician, the military chieftain, the emancipator, the icon, the saint, the pop figure, the cultural artifact, the Land of Lincoln and Lincoln’s still resounding political legacy. Visitors to the exhibit will leave with a new appreciation for Lincoln, and a newfound visual and conceptual vocabulary with which to think about his legacy.
Artists participating in the exhibit are William Blake, Julie Cowan, Keenan Dailey, David Hinds, Daniel Houk, Larsen Husby, Jordan Fein, Lori Fuller, Industry of the Ordinary (Adam Brooks & Mathew Wilson), Lindsay Johnson, Kelly Jones, Judith Joseph, Judith Mayer, Alexander Martin, Mark Nelson, Nathan Peck, Don Pollack, Krista Shelton, Corey Smith and Billie Theide.