Cultivating Peace

Group Exhibition

The Artnauts in Rwanda

August 8-15, 2024

Venue: Kigali Genocide Memorial Museum

Kigali, Rwanda

Website: https://www.artnauts.org/

About: 250,000 victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi have their final resting-place at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. We are conscious that truly honouring their memory means doing what each of us can to help protect other people from facing such atrocities in the future. Comprising exhibitions, memorial gardens, educational facilities and the Genocide Archive of Rwanda, the Memorial plays a vital role within Rwandan national, social and cultural identity as a place of remembrance for survivors and education, both for the young and for wider Rwandan society. It is also a site of learning highly relevant to the international community, as policy makers strive to improve response to mass atrocities and the effectiveness of systems for prevention.

Historical Rubbish

first floor gallery

Opening Reception: August 30th, 5-8pm
August 30 – October 12, 2024

Kiechel Fine Art Gallery

1208 'O' Street

Lincoln, NE 68508
Website:  https://kiechelart.com

About: Kiechel Fine Art, established in 1986, specializes in 19th and 20th century American Art, Old Master and Contemporary prints, as well as regional and national contemporary art.  We represent the estates of several notable artists and private family trusts.  Our gallery offers the highest level of services including art consultation and certified appraisal.  We have placed work in corporate, private and museum collections worldwide.  Working with private and corporate clients, we strive to build collections with current and future value. Member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association and International Society of Appraisers

Solo Exhibition

First Floor Galleries: June 5 – August 31, 2025

Galleries Hours : Mon – Fri, 11 am – 7 pm
Sat 10 am – 4 pm
Sun 12 pm – 4 pm

Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities

6901 Wadsworth Blvd.

Arvada, CO 8003

720-898-7251

Website: https://arvadacenter.org/galleries

The Arvada Center celebrates and elevates the human condition with engaging arts, humanities, education, and entertainment that expand the cultural landscape for everyone who visits us.

The Arvada Center produces, curates and creates national-caliber arts, humanities, education and entertainment that are designed to help you see, hear, feel, and think a little deeper.

More info on the exhibition to come! 

Without Borders
group exhibition

Curated by Jonathan Powell, elysium gallery Director and Heather Parnell, co-editor of 1SSUE artist books.

Experience Gallery September 2025
Performing Arts Center
Denver, CO

Website: issuu.com/elysiumgallery/docs/catalogue

Without Borders is an evolving digital project and physical exhibition that brings together 22 communities and nearly 300 artists from around the world. Without Borders seeks to remove barriers, create alliances, and connect with neighbours. It aims to bring creative people together, to collaborate in an international touring exhibition of works on paper – a collection of artists pages. The project salutes the diversity of creativity, showcasing the work of all participating artists democratically, in a format that is portable and accessible. The ‘Artists Book’ serves as the vessel and sets the parameters into the exploration of the notion of Borders.

The term Border describes literal or invisible lines: edges that separate and divide, that contain and limit. Without Borders is particularly evocative and redolent in these current times. Ever-quickening, reactive politics results in some borders hardening, whilst others dissolve. The divide between rich and poor appears to be widening. Physical, geographical, and social borders, together with the fragile, permeable border between life and death have also been highlighted by the recent pandemic.

Serving Gluttony 

Essay by Catherine Flood
April 2024

“Food is the point where our bodies merge with the vast universe outside, and that’s scary.” – Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up! (2018)

https://unitlondon.com/2024-04-05/catherine-flood-on-serving-gluttony/

Eating blurs the boundaries between us and the world. It is where politics converge with pleasure and social ideas are inscribed on bodies; where ecologies intermingle with our biology, and our appetites shape landscapes. What we eat and how is an intimate matter of personal habits, memories and gut reactions, but also a subject deeply implicated now in concerns over environmental crises and social inequalities. These intersections make food a compelling lens for contemporary art. Serving Gluttony brings together seven artists who all explore aspects of our modern industrial food lives, and the complex histories they represent, in ways that are at once profoundly personal and urgently global. 

Voyage Denver Interview

May 2024

https://voyagedenver.com/interview/check-out-melissa-furnesss-story/

Today, we’d like to introduce you to Melissa Furness. Hi Melissa, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today.