CURATORIAL INTENT

Our approach blends the process of space making, artistic practice, curricula design, and land-based ecological realities as a method for our curatorial practice. Our exhibitions and collaborations are centered on the premise of presenting a story through a collective vision, by weaving interdisciplinary contemporary artists' individual work into a space that is meant to generate conversation and embodied wisdom. We are specific to name that the spiritual is not about Religion. The spiritual is about one's values and intentions. This is political.

CURATORIAL DIRECTOR

CHEYENNE WYZZARD-JONES

“As Curatorial Director of the contemporary art company Spiritual is Political, my work is to design spaces that present stories through collective vision, connecting the works of interdisciplinary artists into environments that foster conversation and embodied wisdom. My particular curatorial research explores the landscapes of place in relation to time, climate, gender, and politics.

I make work to merge academic and experiential research with material exploration and oral storytelling traditions, which have been essential to my own journey of fugitivity. For the past ten years, my own artistic practice spans the areas of international development, race and gender studies, spatial design, reproductive justice policy, abolition, reparations, and land sovereignty.

I am committed to interrogating the impacts of globalization, colonial modernization, and the environmental exploitation violently imposed on Black, Indigenous, queer, and migrant communities. Whether through intimate character-driven plays or multi-sensory exhibitions, I seek to create spaces where audiences can experience what is, what was, and what could be.”

Cheyenne is not only a curator but brings the perspective of interdisciplinary storytelling through the role of playwright and educator.