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It’s National Intern Day! Here are Elsewhere’s current Spring Interns!

Koy Smith (San Francisco, CA) | Yansa F. Crosby (Greensboro, NC) 

Sophia Schultz (Sarasota, FL) | Jordan Delzell (NYC)

Here is some final documentation of my chair, titled An Invitation That Might Break. It was still intact when I left on Tuesday, though it suffered some cracks in the seat from its opening night which I see as a sort of scarring that the chair will carry to show its interactions with people. As far as how people behaved when sitting on the chair, it was exactly as I hoped: totally reticent and cautious. Here is me taking the first seat of the night, and this is the artist statement that Mona and I co-wrote:

An Invitation That Might Break

An Invitation challenges how our attitudes change about using an object once its vulnerability is exposed. In this case, Southwell has repaired a chair from the collection but replaced its seat with stained glass, with the intention of retaining its functionality.

Introducing our 2017 Southern Constellations Fellow Artists. This is the 5th cycle of the fellowship and it is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.