Robin North Presents An Archive of Care at the Olive DeLuce Art Gallery, Northwest Missouri State University

Northwest Missouri State University will host an artist’s exploration of the ways rural, Black Southern families use visual art as a means of resistance and narrative reclamation during the spring semester’s first exhibit in the Olive Deluce Art Gallery.

Titled “An Archive of Care: Reframing Our Understanding of Family, Place, and Identity,” the exhibit features the work of Robin North, an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator who grew up along the Gulf Coast in the deep south of Texas.

“We feel very privileged to introduce the work of Robin North to our community through his gripping exhibition in the DeLuce Gallery,” Dr. Karen Britt, a Northwest associate professor of art, said. “The work in his exhibition explores the complicated history of our country’s past in original and deeply moving ways. As historical documents, photographs have an immediacy that draws us in, when I view the work in the exhibition I personally have the sense that North’s images are passing through me rather than my passing through the images. It is a penetrating and meaningful experience that we are thrilled to offer our students and the community.”