Words for our Country

Brittney Hofer, Samara Johnson, Sarah McCormick, and Elspeth Schulze

August 15 — October 12, 2020

Inspired by Union Hall’s Poems for our Country exhibition held in November 2019, Words for our Country is a community-driven project that takes your words, quotes, stories, anecdotes (and whatever is on your mind!), and turns it into art.

About the Artists

  • Brittney Hofer

    grew up in a small agricultural town in the plains of northern Montana. She received her BFA at the University of Montana Missoula in 2016 and is a current MFA candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder focusing in Sculpture & Post Studio Practices. Her work creates a connection between music-making and land use, emphasizing the way we navigate through the land with demarcated lines and audible borders that define ownership and theory.

  • Elspeth Schulze

    is from Southern Louisiana, where the land is full of water and the water is full of land. She studied Literature at Loyola University, New Orleans, Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and is currently a graduate student in Ceramics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work combines these interests: through precise pattern making and material exploration, she shapes a visual language that works without words.

  • Samsara Johnson

    was born and raised in Moose Pass, Alaska. She received her BFA from Sonoma State University in California and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The experience of being raised in rural Alaska by a craftswoman mother inspires her use of non-human materials, including horse hair, porcupine quills, beads, and paper.

  • Sarah McCormick

    grew up deep in the northwoods of Michigan. She completed her BFA at the University of Arkansas and is an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work withinland wrestles with the complex and paternalistic relationship between humans and nonhumans, specifically within the context of land preservation. She examines the act of protection when applied to an entity that may have never given consent. Is the cordoning off of land for the purpose of conservation a gift to, or theft from, the organisms that populate it?

What’s Upcoming?