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(UN)SETTLED
This exhibition is closed, but you can take a virtual tour any time!
(UN)SETTLED is a community art exhibition that brings together regional artists working in all mediums to express the darker side of being human. Explore contemporary artworks that express fears both real and imagined as well as the beauty and enlightenment that can comes from examining those fears. Artist compete for first, second, and third place, first place poetry winner, as well as the Community Choice Award, determined by the public.
Did you miss the live awards reception?
Watch a recording of the event on WindsorTV
The Community Choice Award goes to Bella Gow, "Feeling Small." Congratulations!
And the winners are...
How I Know
By Lynda La Rocca
The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
— Sylvia Plath
How can it still be winter
when I’m melting to
a soup of cells,
a flick of eyelash, bits of bone,
one soggy slice of fingernail,
the stink of scorching fat,
a metal pot is jumping, rattling on the stove.
Outside the window is
a bear,
I smell its matted fur,
rust-stained and wet,
it glistens, grunts, and snorts,
black snout,
its nostrils flaring.
Great claws are shredding, gouging shutters,
ripping, tearing off the wood—
yet these shape-shifters do not rise
when all the ground is spread
with crusted snow—
and this is how I know
the earth has turned,
the soft, round, secret bulbs
are pulsing, pushing, petaling
in bursts
of yellow, scarlet, pink,
a gash of green and purple.
Look now—
the cups are opening like mouths.
First Place "Pat" by Yuki Horikawa
Second Place "Hive" by Elizabeth Morisette
Meet the Judges!
Three judges will be selecting the winning artworks this year!
Mary-Ann Kokoska is an artist and professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Colorado State University.
Maureen Corey is the Curator of Art at the Loveland Museum and Gallery.
Brad Vogler holds a Masters of Fine Arts, is a published writer of two books and three chapbooks. He will be selecting our poetry winner.
Third Place "Window Licker" by Melissa Connally