full listing of previous events: https://www.combatpaper.org/tourhistory
Exhibition showcases works created by participants of Combat Paper® project at UNF, a hand papermaking workshop facilitated by artist and Iraq war veteran Drew Francis Cameron that teaches veterans to make paper from United States military uniforms.
O Say Can You See
November 4 – December 17, 2022,
Gallery Hall, Marketview Arts (downtown)
First Friday Reception: November 4, 5:00 PM, Marketview Arts
“Themes of valor and sacrifice, common to Veterans Day events, are complicated by expressions of grief, confusion, anger, and remorse in this exhibition of artwork by combat veterans, whose experiences at war and upon returning home sometimes leave them wondering what it was all for.”
This important exhibition seeks to provide education about PTSD – the history and current thoughts on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – along with the primary goal of offering ideas and workshops to Veterans and families that may help them with their personal PTSD journeys.
Healing through art has been established as an effective means of allowing a Veteran (or civilian) to express their thoughts and experiences through a creative process, thus encouraging them to be more open to sharing their experiences with fellow Veterans and loved ones. Healing through art also allows the viewer, even civilian viewers, to better see and understand the complex depths of thought and emotion that veterans managing PTSD are experiencing.
Al Mudhif – A Confluence is an outdoor art installation by Sarah Kavage & Yaroub Al-Obaidi and an accompanying gallery exhibition at the Schuylkill Center that explore notions of belonging and healing amidst the current moment of careful reconnection. Al Mudhif provides a welcoming space for intercultural encounters at the Schuylkill Center that equally offers a critical perspective on global migration of plants and people.
24 June – 31 October 2021
Curated by Tina Plokarz
The installation Al Mudhif is accompanied by a communal exhibition in the Visitor Center reflecting on belonging and sanctuary. Through the lenses of creative voices of art and activism, war experience, and indigenous resilience from Iraq to the Delaware River watershed, the exhibition offers a place for reconciliation across cultures and countries. The exhibition features artworks by Drew Cameron of Combat Paper, Meridel Rubenstein, art collective Justseeds, Tailinh Agoyo, Tchin; audio recordings by U.S. veterans, Iraqis, and Native Americans reflecting on war and sanctuary (including Moral Injury of War project); and documentary photography by Rob Zverina, Sarah Kavage, and Raad Habeeb Al Asadi, and other participants during Al Mudhif’s construction.
Selected from works within the Combat Paper Project Collection at the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
The artists in VISUAL DISOBEDIENCE respond to the current state of affairs in our culture. Their artworks are a form of concentrated awareness. The saying that “visual artists make the invisible visible” proves true in this exhibition: the artists allow us to see relationships between mandates handed down by our governing system and the results on human beings. These relationships would otherwise be invisible abstractions: the mandate and the result widely separated by time and distance. Artworks included in the exhibit raise questions and propose new ideas, and at times they create desirable alternatives to present circumstances.
Artists showcased in this exhibition include Miriam Alarcon Avila, Paul Brenin, Drew Cameron & Combat Paper, Phillip Chen, Tom Christison, David Dunlap, Mira Engler, John Fender, Donté K. Hayes, Edward V. Kelley, Emily Newman, M. Ryan Noble, Mitchell Squire, Rob Stephens, Taylor Yocom
The College Book Art Association (CBAA) has organized Rising Together | an Exhibition of Zines, Artists’ Books and Prints with a Social Conscience, a juried, traveling book arts exhibition scheduled from 2018 - 2021 to stop at six locations throughout the country. Work included in the show demonstrates how artist books give activism a visual voice, and can serve as powerful agents in effecting positive social change on issues encompassing social justice, power, politics, the environment and more. At each location, the exhibit will be accompanied by participatory programs and public education initiatives.
NATIONAL VETERANS ART MUSEUM
TRIENNIAL & VETERAN ART SUMMIT
ON WAR & SURVIVAL
EXHIBITION MAY 3, 2019 - JULY 29, 2019
SUMMIT MAY 3, 2019 - MAY 5, 2019
With a focus on the visual, literary, performative and creative practices of veterans, the National Veterans Art Museum Triennial and Veteran Art Summit explores a century of war and survival while challenging the perception that war is something only those who have served in the military can comprehend. Throughout history, art has provided a frame to create meaning out of the complicated experience of war, seek justice and imagine reconciliation. The NVAM Triennial draws on this history to connect today’s veteran artists with the history of veteran creative practices and their impact on society over the past century. The NVAM Triennial exhibition opening coincides with the Veteran Art Summit. A series of presentations, workshops, panels, and discussions will be held May 3 - 5 at the Chicago Cultural Center, DePaul Art Museum, and National Veterans Art Museum.
ON WAR & SURVIVAL NVAM Triennial & Veteran Art Summit Summit May 2nd - 5th 2019 | Chicago Cultural Center Exhibition May 4th - July 29th
From the Great War through the Global War on Terror veterans have made art about their military experiences that challenges stereotypes, politics, and media portrayals. At its best, such work has driven new creative movements and transformed society. With a focus on the visual, literary, performative and creative practices of veterans, the NVAM Triennial explores a century of war and survival while challenging the perception that war is something only those who have served in the military can comprehend. Throughout history art has provided a frame to create meaning out of the complicated experience of war, seek justice, and imagine reconciliation. The NVAM Triennial draws on this history to connect veteran artists today with the history of veteran creative practices and their impact on society over the past century.
The Veteran Art Summit will bring veteran artists from across the United States together to strengthen the emerging veteran art movement. Exploring what it means to be an artist and a veteran today, attendees will learn from their peers through presentations, workshops, panels, and discussions. The Summit will also offer leadership development programs, job training, and collaborative and networking opportunities.
The NVAM Triennial and Veteran Art Summit is for service members, veterans, military families, and the broader society to reflect upon, and cope with, the experiences, histories, and present realities of war.
An exhibition as part of 'In Good Company' an exposition of work from emerging veteran artists throughout the month of November 2018 in Madison, Wisconsin.
Naomi Hume states, “If war ultimately defies representation, it can also be said that it requires it.”
100 Years of War, 100 Years Later. Selected artists come together to engage in meaningful dialogue, seeking a new visual language, like the artists of WWI, to communicate experiences of perpetual war. It is an existence of contradictions, fractured identities, and often emphatic anti-war responses.
November 9-22, 2018
Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI
VICARIOUS
Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art
NOVEMBER 1, 2018 – JANUARY 5, 2019
Through the theme of empathy, Vicarious invites dialogue around issues related to veterans and the veteran experience, using art as the vehicle for discussion and reflection. This multi-disciplinary exhibition will feature paintings by San Francisco-based Dan Bayless, drawings and paintings by Charlotte-based artist and Army Veteran Wil Bosbyshell, glass work by Pomona, California-based artist and Vietnam veteran Michael Aschenbrenner, prints, objects and sculpture by Drew Cameron, installation work by Charlotte-based artist and Navy veteran Suje Garcia, a documentary produced by Susie Films, a virtual reality project produced by writer, academic, speaker and Army veteran Paula Kranz Broadwell, and artworks from graduates of the Chicago-based CreatiVets Program. The exhibition will invite conversation around the power of art to reach into the psyche in a way nothing else can.
The gallery is partnering with Veterans Bridge Home, which will receive 5% of profits from art sales from the exhibition.
artwork image: Michael Aschenbrenner
A Different 1%
Opening Reception: Thursday September 27, 6pm-8pm
Combat Paper Workshop: Wed. Sept. 26: 1-4pm & Thu. Sep. 27: 1-4pm
With less than 1% of the US population in the armed forces, A Different 1% presents artworks, workshops, and screenings by eight artist-veterans who create bridges for, and to, a public that’s increasingly disconnected from the consequences of war.
artwork image: Ash Kyrie
Craftivism is a worldwide movement that operates at the intersection of craft and activism. Across the globe, artists and crafters armed with traditional materials like yarn, glue guns, quilt patterns, sewing needles, X-ACTO knives, and other tools are using their hands to protest social and political inequalities and injustices.
The time spent on these works shows the dedication to creating pieces that evoke emotion and promote discussion. By sharing ideas expressed through the work of their hands, these artists and crafters aim to make you think, explore and take note.
MODA’s Making Change: The Art and Craft of Activism exhibition will explore this movement. It will also invite all visitors to get involved by making something that makes a difference.
This exhibition is curated by Betsy Greer, author of Craftivism: The Art and Craft of Activism.
Paper Tiger - An exploration of paper as a contemporary medium for expression. Collage, books, origami, painting, drawing, pulping, photos, construction, masks, etc. all made using paper. The most human of all mediums for creation and recording; ubiquitous and humble, paper can be used to make whole worlds. Paper has destroyed whole cultures and preserved others. What is paper in the digital age? Vestigial tool? Fetishized nostalgia object? Flexible and perennial studio standby? These artists answer with their work. Curated by C.K. Wilde www.currencycollage.com
Drew Cameron has a pulp print from the series: Closer To Reality Everyday included in this upcoming exhibition in New York City.
Curated by Sue Gosin and Mina Takahashi, this is the first exhibition IPCNY has presented which focuses on paper, printmaking’s longtime silent partner. It is also the first exhibition in the USA which demonstrates the rich history of American hand papermaking, and the vibrant network of papermakers, printmakers, publishers, and artists who came out of its boom in the 1960s. With works by over 65 artists, the exhibition traces the dynamic cross-pollination that occurred between the fields beginning in the post-war era in the United States that resulted in some of the most innovative works on paper in the 20th and 21st centuries.
