Please join us Saturday, September 14 at 12 noon for Field Notes on (E)Merging a special conversation between artists Carlie Trosclair and Bird Harris in conjunction with Trosclair's solo exhibition at Sibyl, allowed our edges to merge.
ABOUT CARLIE TROSCLAIR
Carlie Trosclair (b. New Orleans, LA) is a sculptor and installation artist who records and reimagines the genealogy of home and its relationship to the natural world. As the daughter of an electrician, Trosclair spent her formative years in historic residential properties at varying stages of construction and renovation. Reflectively her work creates new topographies and narratives that highlight structural and decorative shifts evolving over a building's lifespan. Trosclair earned an M.F.A from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, B.F.A from Loyola University New Orleans, and is an alumni of the Community Arts Training Institute in St. Louis. Select artist residencies include: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Loghaven Artist Residency (TN), Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), Joan Mitchell Center (LA), McColl Center (NC), and Vermont Studio Center. Trosclair’s work has been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, ArtFile Magazine, and Temporary Art Review, among others. She is the recipient of the Riverfront Time‘s Mastermind Award, Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship and the Great Rivers Biennial Award. In 2023 Trosclair was named the Ellis-Beauregard Fellow for the Visual Arts and the South Arts Louisiana State Fellow for Visual Arts.
ABOUT BIRD HARRIS
Bird Harris (b. 1987) is an artist and educator who prioritizes caretaking and connection. Her work explores the throughlines between history and ecological crises, engaging with communities, scientists, and site-specific materials to investigate land memory, systems of complicity, and possibilities for emergence.
Harris received her B.S. in art history from Skidmore College and master’s degree in education leadership from Columbia University. She has served as principal of a turnaround school in New Orleans and has consulted with school leaders across the South to implement equitable learning practices and anti-racist history education. Recent exhibitions include NADA Curates, the New Mexico State University Museum, Art Fields (Lake City, SC), Stoveworks (Chattanooga, TN), the Barnes Ogden Gallery at Louisiana State University, and Science Gallery Atlanta. She has been an artist in residence at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (Hudson Valley, NY), The Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, GA), and was one of 7 artists selected for the Art & Social Justice Fellowship at Emory University in 2023. Current projects include Sonoran Heritage Waters with musicians and ecologists at Arizona State University, Hope Springs Eternal in collaboration with activist organization RISE St. James and New Orleans-based artists, and SITE at the Goat Farm (Atlanta, GA). Bird is an MFA candidate at Georgia State University. She lives in Atlanta with her partner, Josh, and their two children.