Eight local artists will be featured in the 2024-2025 Charlotte Street Crossroads Artboards
Making Memories (Image Proposal // Work by Celina Curry
The Charlotte Street Crossroads Artboards are double-sided, side-by-side billboards that exist above 125 Southwest Boulevards. The project launched in the Fall of 2008, and has featured over 100 artists since. A call for proposals is issued every year in the fall, and participating artists are chosen through a competitive process. Selected artists will have their work shown for three months of the year.
The artists this year that have been selected for the 2024-2025 cycle are:
Celina Curry
Hannah Fine
MacKenzie Fulmer
Hùng Lê
Katherine Looney
Andrew Mcilvaine
Bernadette Negrete
Heidi Pitre
Selected works explore ideas of Chicanafuturism—a concept coined by Catherine S. Ramirez in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Chicanafuturism borrows from ideas and theories of Afrofuturism, and “explores the ways that new and everyday technologies, including their detritus, transform Mexican-American life and culture.”
Future Frontiers // Work by Andrew Mcilvaine
Works such as that of Mcilvaine feature, colliding images of cowboys, vaqueros, and low-riders, whereas Curry’s piece, Making Memories, depicts two individuals capturing a sunset on their phones.
Each work was chosen by a jury made up of four local artists, working in a variety of mediums including curators, educators, cultural activists, and critical art writers. This year’s jury was composed of Suzie Aron, Kaitlyn B. Jones, Kiki Serna, and Mark Spencer.
The Crossroads Artboards program is supported in part by the Crossroads Community Association, and Mid-America Arts Alliance.
