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Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. Recent editorial projects include Linda Nochlin\u2019s Making It Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now and Lorraine O\u2019Grady\u2019s Writing in Space 1973-2018; she co-curated the retrospective Lorraine O\u2019Grady: Both\/And at the Brooklyn Museum in 2021. She is the recipient of the 2021 Rabkin Prize for art journalism and a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant. She was appointed the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art in 2022, and the W.W. Corcoran Professor of Social Engagement at the Corcoran School of Art, George Washington University, in 2022-2023. Her most recent book, Imperfect Solidarities, was published in 2024.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlisha Wormsley (Pittsburgh, PA) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer whose work exists at the intersections of public art, film, craft and social practice. Her work transforms public space and collective imagination through projects rooted in liberated futures, ritual, and community care. She is the founder of Sibyls Shrine, a residency for Black artists who M\/other; creator of There Are Black People in the Future; and co-creator, with artist Kite, of Cosmologyscape, exploring the power of collective dreaming. Her newest film-in-process, Children of NAN: A Survival Guide\u2014which presents tutorials and survival strategies for future Black femmes while exploring their relationship to ritual, craft, and the natural world\u2014has been awarded the Anonymous Was A Woman\/NYFA Award, a Pittsburgh Foundation grant, and the Sundance Interdisciplinary Grant. Wormsley is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and is an Assistant Professor of Art in Social Practice at Carnegie Mellon University.\n\nRobin K. Williams is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), with curatorial and scholarly interests in visual, performance, sound, and socially engaged artistic practices. At UMMA, she leads initiatives such as the UMMA-Labadie artist research residency program, supporting projects grounded in activism and archival inquiry. Previously, as Curator at The Contemporary Austin, she curated exhibitions including This Land (2023), Tarek Atoui: The Whisperers (2022), and Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams (2021), and commissions with artists including Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, Vivian Caccuri, Celeste, Raven Chacon, Jenny Holzer, Katarina Jane\u010dkov\u00e1 Walshe, and Clare Rojas. She was Ford Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, curating Danielle Dean: True Red Ruin (2018) and co-curating Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance (2017), and Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Latin American Art at the Blanton Museum of Art. Her scholarship on Joan Jonas appears in the international journals Stedelijk Studies and Sin Objeto. 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In response, they\u2019ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA \u201923) and Erin McKenna (MFA \u201920)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA \u201920) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA \u201920)\nPhase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA \u201920) and Nathan Byrne (MFA \u201921)\nPhase 2 Curatorial Statement\n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Sally Clegg (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Kim Karlsrud (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtists Sally Clegg and Kim Karlsrud wrap the Division Street pillars in highly site-specific ornament unearthed from the overlooked margins of Ann Arbor. On the Courtyard pillar, Karlsrud scales up photographs of objects found in liminal spaces surrounding campus buildings on Green Road, which the artist has encrusted in road salt. On the entryway pillar, Clegg zooms in on tiny fragments of found material from UMich\u2019s famous \u201crock\u201d to celebrate nearly seven decades of student art and activism. Both artists uplift aggregate of local human activity to reveal tiny worlds of found form. \n\nSally Clegg: Sentimentary Rock\nSentimentary Rock is a composition of paint slag collected from the UMich rock monument at the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street. This colorful composite material has been accumulating at the base of the iconic limestone boulder since the mid 1950\u2019s, when students began a tradition of painting it in acts of protest, creativity, and ritual, sometimes multiple times per week. Akin to byproducts of industry such as \u201cFordite\u201d (collectable chunks of automotive overspray sometimes called \u2018Detroit agate\u2019), Sentimentary Rock includes thousands of layers, each dripped from a palimpsestic public proclamation. When processed, sculpted, sealed, assembled, and macro-photographed, the result is this enlarged array of tiny gems, intended to celebrate the indissoluble student voice. \n\nKim Karlsrud: What Amasses\nWhat Amasses is an assemblage of everyday found objects collected within the Miller Creek watershed, an urbanized drainage system that encompasses much of the city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan campus. Selected objects were immersed in a road salt solution, allowing delicate crystalline formations to emerge. Road salt is a common material input into these hydrological networks during the winter months and exists in multiple states of refinement, expression, coherence, and fragmentation. Each object was then arranged, photographed, and enlarged to recontextualize these materials in ways that invite deeper reflections on how infrastructure and human agency blur notions of the natural and the artificial. \nArtist Statements\/Bios\n\nSally Clegg \nSally Clegg is an artist and educator from Pelham, Massachusetts. Her studio practice is rooted in sculpture and expanded printmaking, stemming from a fascination with human efforts to make meaning from our relationships to objects. Clegg integrates history, popular culture, literature and philosophy as material for artmaking, leveraging personal anecdote and humor to reveal the complexity, absurdity, and theoretical richness at play in our connections to things and to ourselves. \n\nClegg holds an MFA in Art from The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, and a BA in Art & English from Goucher College. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work can be found in permanent collections at Yale University, The New York Public Library, and elsewhere. Her artwork and writing has appeared in ASAP\/Journal, BOMB Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, and Hyperallergic. She is a lecturer in Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Website \/ Instagram\n\n\nKim Karlsrud \nKim Karlsrud is the co-founder of Commonstudio, a collaborative creative practice that develops socio-ecological and spatial interventions, installations, and initiatives working with and within urban landscapes. Her work explores the space between art and design, and is grounded in the concept of the \u201ccommons,\u201d that which is shared, as well as that which is ordinary, banal, and commonplace.\n\nKarlsrud completed her undergraduate degree in Product Design from Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan. 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