There are still a few months left to see my figurative inlay jewelry at The Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida but for those that can’t make it, I wanted to share the installation pictures that the museum took highlighting my inlay jewelry.

*Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration*, May 25, 2024 – January 26, 2025, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. Photo: Chris Lunardi

Exhibition wall text:

The Ringling presents Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration, an ambitious cross-institutional exhibition that highlights and celebrates recent artwork from Florida's Tampa Bay region. Following on the successful Skyway exhibitions in 2017 and 2021, this third iteration is co-organized by The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; Tampa Museum of Art; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, and a new collaborative partner for 2024, Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art + Design.

Museum curators from each institution reviewed over 300 submissions, responses to an open call to artists from Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, and Sarasota counties. The curators worked with guest juror Evan Garza, a groundbreaking curator, scholar, writer, and a Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, to review the submissions. The curatorial team selected a final sixty-three artists and artist collectives for this exhibition, choosing to represent work with a strong sense of purpose, meaningful content, and that challenges us as viewers. To accompany the exhibition, a co-published fully-illustrated catalogue with curatorial texts features the work of each exhibiting artist.

For Skyway 2024, the exhibition at The Ringling includes work by thirteen artists and artist collectives who work in diverse media and across disciplines and genres, from abstraction, figuration, and lanescape to virtual reality and soune. Inese are painter ane jewelny maker Caitlin Albritton, interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Ainaz Alipour, interdisciplinary media artist Mohsen Azar, photo and textile-based artist Saumitra Chandratreya, painters Elisabeth Condon and Michael Vasquez, folk artist Robyn "Avalon" Crosa, interdisciplinary artist Rachel de Cuba, conceptual painter Jake Fernandez, installation artist Akiko Kotani, collaborative team Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse, multi-disciplinary sculptor Libbi Ponce, ane collage artist soo woo. as a way or tostering creative exchange and introducing Sarasota's audiences and the local community to new visual talent we are featuring work by exciting artists based mostly outside of Sarasota. The result is an exhibition consisting of a myriad response to the contemporary moment, to our immediate environment, and to the social and political conditions of our times.

Skyway 2024 is a celebration of artistic innovation and a testament to the collaborative spirit of the Tampa Bay arts community.

Skyway 2024 Museum Installation Pictures

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