Abigail DeVille, photo by Maya Peroune
Abigail DeVille, The Dream Keeper, detail. Photo © Bob Perkoski, www.Perkoski.com
Julie Schenkelberg
Julie Schenkelberg, Heirloom at Chautauqua Institution, 2022
Artist Talk with Abigail DeVille and Julie Schenkelberg
Saturday, September 3, 11 AM – 12:30 PM
The Sculpture Center, 1834 E. 123 St., Cleveland, OH 44106
Free, in person, registration encouraged. Parking on site.
Artists Abigail DeVille and Julie Schenkelberg both create large scale mixed-media installations to recollect and transform histories of the past into different notions of remembrance and healing. Featured artist Abigail DeVille will be in conversation with Julie Schenkelberg, who will exhibit at TSC in October, to talk about their work, visions and processes. The talk will be facilitated by Jeremy Johnson of the Assembly for the Arts.
About Jeremy Johnson
Jeremy Johnson is the President and CEO of the Assembly for the Arts, coming to the position after two decades of arts non-profit work in New Jersey. Jeremy is a new board member of University Circle, Inc. He represents Cleveland on Americans for the Arts’ Equity Council for the forthcoming Arts & Economy Prosperity 6 Study. He received his BA from Kenyon College and MFA from the University of Iowa. He interned at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. He enjoys classical and gospel music, art galleries, and American Sign Language.
About Abigail DeVille
Abigail DeVille creates immersive multimedia installations that focus on storytelling and reviving forgotten narratives and encourage us to rethink the past, present, and future— especially the experiences of Black Americans. Her exhibit, The Dream Keeper, is currently on view at The Sculpture Center.
About Julie Schenkelberg
Julie Schenkelberg’s large mixed-media installations start with furniture, dishware, textiles, and marble, combined with concrete, resin, and construction materials, to transform notions of domesticity, and engage with the American Rust Belt’s legacy of abandonment and decay. Her work seeks to excavate a bygone history embodied in abandoned buildings, objects, lives, jobs and stories. The installations transition the past into new stories of remembrance and healing. Her exhibition, Currant, will be on view at The Sculpture Center October 21 – December 16, 2022.
Abigail DeVille: The Dream Keeper is on view July 16 – October 2, 2022
Julie Schenkelberg: Currant, is on view October 21 – December 16, 2022
Jeremy Johnson- photo courtesy of Assembly for the Arts
