Arts Interchange Public — Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation

An Opportunity for Emerging Artists to Collaborate and Produce New Work!

About the North Louisiana Arts Interchange

The North Louisiana Arts Interchange is an opportunity for artists within North Louisiana to collaborate with other artists via the internet. Over the course of the program, participants will have the opportunity to collaborate directly with other artists in the program, eventually partnering into pairs to produce new work for the exhibition at the culmination of the program.

The Arts Interchange will occur from March until September in 2024. For the first 10 weeks, from March through May, the participants meet online once a week via Zoom during which they learn about and explore internet based collaboration through discussions and guest speakers. At the end of each week’s meeting, the participants are placed in pairs to work on assignments to complete before the next meeting. This pattern of discussion topics and assignments continues for the first 8 weeks until all the artists have worked directly with each other.

After having had the opportunity to work with each other, the artists decide their permanent pairs and produce new work for the North Louisiana Arts Interchange Exhibit on display in August 2024 at the Creatives At Work gallery located in Ruston, Louisiana.

This experience provides the structure and opportunity to experiment with online collaboration and further challenges each artist to leverage play and exploration to inform a finished work ready for public display.

2024 North Louisiana Arts Interchange Artists + Works

A Collective Dream: 2 Becomes 1, 1 Becomes 2

Brooke Cassady

Instagram: brookecassadyart

Lindsay Carraway

Instagram: geezealouisea

Bedsheets, steel, shrinky dinks, yarn, plywood, spray foam, found objects, brooches, rhinestones, glitter, acrylic paint, mirror | 10’ x 14’ x 8’ | 2024

Things Left Unsaid: Origins & Things Left Unsaid

Daniela “Dani” Capistrano

Instagram: mijareturns

Don Graham Jr.

Instagram: don.3377

Things Left Unsaid by Don Graham Jr.

Acrylic on canvas | 30’ x 30’ x 3.5’ | 2024 | [blue piece]

This painting is about the conversation that people are unable to have for whatever reason, whether in their control or otherwise, and the emotional turmoil that comes with it. Living in these moments and thoughts can be very isolated, which is depicted by the framing of the painting.

Things Left Unsaid: Origins by Daniela “Dani” Capistrano

Acrylic on canvas | 30’ x 30’ x 3.5’ | 2024 | [yellow piece]

This piece functions as an echo/memory of “Things Left Unsaid” by Don Graham Jr. about the origins of generational trauma; a fragmented mirror image of the adult as a child, and reflects the first time a child left something important, unsaid.

Together, these pieces represent the interactive opportunity for the audience to reflect on the things left unsaid from their own childhoods, and how facing the truth of those secrets in the present can be a step on the road to healing and thriving.