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September 22, 2023 – March 31, 2024

How does material knowledge transfer between people, between people and objects, and between objects and places? 
 
In Hand, curated by Kate Hampel and Sam Dodd, creates a dialog between two contemporary artworks to show how artists and historians engage with the built world. Hand Pressed Souvenirs (2009 -), by Los Angeles artist Nicole Seisler, invites participants to join on a local walk with blocks of wet porcelain in-hand, which they use to make impressions of architectural details that visually and culturally define a location. 

John Feodorov is a Seattle-based artist, musician and educator of mixed Navajo (Diné) and Euro-American heritage. His work questions and explores assumptions about identity, place, and spirituality within the contexts of consumerism, colonization and environmental degradation.The Yellow Dirt series responds to the ongoing health and environmental crises on and near the Navajo reservation from over 500 abandoned uranium mines.

The objects in this gallery are rotated on an annual basis and have been specifically selected by Curator of Education Sally Delgado and Registrar Lisa Quinn to stimulate conversations on visual literacy and how we create meaning, both individually and collectively, from visual images. Visitors are invited to slow down, look closely and consider how they process and interpret visual information. This slowing down of visual processing – be it alone or in conversation with others – has the potential to increase our understanding of cultural difference, bring awareness of bias, and encourage empathy. Facilitated Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) sessions for classes can be scheduled through KMA’s education department (delgado@ohio.edu).