Residency Cycle 1- April – June 2024

Our inaugural artist in residence was artist and educator, Chrissy Collopy. For her residency, Collopy created a series of still-life paintings featuring stigmatized foods, and taught a free community workshop where students created collages centered on that same concept.

​Collopy and her collage students’ work received its first public viewing Tuesday, May 28, as part of the SOS ART World Hunger Day observation at the Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, where Collopy also participated in a panel discussing concerns about food insufficiency and nutrition. ​

From there, the paintings and collages were exhibited at the Fitton Center. For the opening event, we teamed up with several local organizations to amplify the message behind the art.

​ Among them:
– Shared Harvest collected canned goods for donation and shared information on area food pantries;
– Butler County Board of Health provided information on food insufficiency and nutrition;
– Lane Library staffed an information table, offered books on gardening and handed out seed packets for guests to grow their own vegetables.