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RESIDENCY AT YINGGE CERAMICS MUSEUM
2024
Hillary Wagner was invited by Sister Cities International (SCI) to participate in a short term artist residency at the Yingge Ceramics Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The trip was led by artist and professor, Kirk Mayhew, and also served as a pilot program for a future SCI artist exchange program between New Taipei City and Cincinnati, OH.
SOLO EXHIBITION AT DSGN CLLCTV - HOMEMAKING: AN OVERTURE
2024
Homemaking: An Overture is a new installation and solo exhibition by Hillary Wagner at DSGN CLLCTV in Cincinnati, OH. It is made up of large-scale sculpture, found objects, video projection, sound elements, hydroponics technology, and organic matter. The exhibition can be viewed April 5th, 2024 through April 26th, 2024.
GUGGENHEIM PRACTICUM PUBLICATION I
2020
Anifowoshe, Kanyinsola, and Janower, Mikki. “A Community Is a Garden.” Sustainable Futures: Guggenheim Summer Practicum, 2020.
GUGGENHEIM PRACTICUM PUBLICATION II
2020
Anifowoshe, Kanyinsola, and Janower, Mikki. “A Community Is a Garden: Tools for Artists, Communities, and Institutions.” Mikki Janower, 2020.
Bird Closet's "Three Conversations" Anywhere and Elsewhere Conference Publication
2019
Bird Closet. “Three Conversations.” Anywhere iii, 2019. (p. 100)
Plough Quarterly's The Art of Community Issue
2018
"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
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 Solo Exhibition at Mount Vernon Nazarene University
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 solo exhibition, Bird Closet, represented the work of Bethel, Ohio based collective. Bird Closet was a collective of young people that developed organically from the relationships established as part of SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing.
Bad at Sports Podcast
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
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
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
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.
SOIL SERIES Community Studios Exhibition
2017
Hillary Wagner curated the inaugural Community Studios program Exhibition for SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing at the Empower Youth Ranch in Bethel, OH.
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