The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies and the Visual Arts program are seeking applicants for 鈥淢aking Our History: Artists Render Lincoln鈥榮 Legacy," a remote artist-in-residency program focusing on the legacies of Abraham Lincoln.
Twenty 缅北禁地 artists will be selected to participate in the residency during the 2021-2022 academic year. They will learn and think about Lincoln鈥檚 varied legacies in monthly meetings with each other and with faculty from the center and the visual arts program.
The artists will present and discuss their art in-progress at several of the meetings. Each artist鈥檚 object will be to create art that stimulates conversation about the American past.
The artworks will be exhibited from August to September 2022 in the聽UIS Visual Arts Gallery, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library聽and the聽Springfield Art Association.
The exhibitions will include short videos that document the making of the physical art and explore each artist鈥檚 historical perspective and artistic approach.
This story appeared in The State Journal-Register on July 31, 2021.