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RECENT NEWS
Plough Quarterly's The Art of Community Issue
Autumn 2018
Hillary Wagner worked with writer and editor Susannah Black to write the piece "A Return to Appalachia," an article about the work of SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing. "A Return to Appalachia" was included in Plough Quarterly's Autumn 2018 issue,
The Art of Community.
Project Anywhere's Anywhere and Elsewhere Conference
November 2018
Hillary Wagner and collaborator Francesca Fiore of SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing were invited to speak at Project Anywhere's 2018 Anywhere and Elsewhere Conference at Parsons School of Design, NY. They delivered a talk titled "Social Drawing: Theory and Praxis in Appalachia."
BIRD CLOSET Exhibition at Mount Vernon Nazarene University
September 2018
Hillary Wagner and collaborator Francesca Fiore were invited to create an exhibition for the Schnormeier Gallery at Mount Vernon Nazarene University. With billboards and zines, the self-titled exhibition, Bird Closet, represented the work of Bethel, Ohio based collective. Bird Closet is a collective of young people that developed organically from the relationships established as part of SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing.
June 2018
Hillary Wagner and collaborator Francesca Fiore of SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing were interviewed by Bad at Sports, the Midwest's largest independent contemporary art podcast and blog, in an episode called "Art and Ecology" about the
relationship between soil and social practice.
Open Engagement at the Queens Museum
May 2018
Hillary Wagner and collaborator Francesca Fiore of SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing were invited to speak at the 2018 Open Engagement conference at the Queens Museum, NY. They delivered a talk titled "SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing – A Year in Appalachia."
Project Anywhere 2018 Exhibition
February 2018
SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing was selected as one of nine projects to be a part of Project Anywhere's 2018 global, blind
peer-reviewed online exhibition program. Project Anywhere is dedicated to art and artistic research at the outermost limits of location-specificity, illuminating artistic projects located beyond or outside traditional exhibition circuits.
Lecture at Mount Vernon Nazarene University
November 2017
Hillary Wagner and collaborator Francesca Fiore were invited as visiting artists to the Mount Vernon Nazarene University Art and Design department. They visited classes and student studios and gave a lecture titled "An Introduction to Socially Engaged Art" which introduced undergraduate students to social practice and their project SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing.
Inaugural Community Studios Exhibition
October 2017
Hillary Wagner curated the inaugural Community Studios program Exhibition for SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing at the
Empower Youth Ranch in Bethel, OH.