Join us for a special tour led by exhibiting artists from Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie. Gain insights into their creative practice and research. Today's tour features Ryan Griffis (video), Melissa Pokorny (sculpture) and Stacey A. Robinson (graphic design).
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ryan Griffis works on large-scale collaborative projects that are focused on the ecology of the US Midwest. Combining art, pedagogy, design, creative writing, and documentary field work, his work follows the interdisciplinary field of political ecology, aiming to examine how and why economic structures and power relations drive environmental change. As an image maker and writer, he aims to produce works that produce knowledge and advocacy towards environmental justice and better relations amongst human and other-than-human communities. yangriffis.com
Melissa Pokorny’s sculptural installations merge lens-based images and textiles with traditional 3D materials and processes. Her conceptual sources lie in the natural world, landscape practices, and the vitality of nonhuman material life. Her process foregrounds collecting—found objects, unusual materials, nontraditional landscape images, and personal or utilitarian possessions. She combines these elements into assemblages that question how we know the world and how meaning forms through constructed relationships. The resulting formal and material interactions complicate and reveal the entangled complexities between multiple realities and worlds. melissapokorny.com
Stacey A. Robinson’s multimedia work addresses decolonized Black futures through collage, motion graphics, illustration, and DJing. The influence of science fiction, Black liberation politics, and comic books shape his practice and aesthetic philosophy, which emphasizes imagination, resilience, and cultural narrative. His collaborative projects include Black Kirby (with John Jennings), BLACKMAU (with Kamau Grantham), BSAM (the Black Speculative Arts Movement), and Darker Than Blue, a DJ quintet based in Champaign-Urbana, dedicated to sonic storytelling and collective joy. www.StaceyARobinson.com
Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie is made possible with support from the Campus Research Board and Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artists Fund, College of Fine and Applied Arts. Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
**Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.**
