
Their labor enabled Edwin Hubble to prove the existence of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy.
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Her Standard Candle series adapts digital weaving and indigenous glass beading to reproduce photographic plates from the 100-inch Hooker telescope, upon which women “computers” performed their calculations at California’s Mount Wilson Observatory in the 1920s. Rosalena’s art highlights the dispossessive practices that undergird innovation and discovery in astronomy, geology, and planetary science. The front of each tapestry envisions the melting and terraforming of Mars and implies, on the reverse, the simultaneous, disastrous effects of climate change on Earth that provoke neo-colonial fantasies of leaving our world and which exacerbate environmental destruction through extractive resource mining. Above Below, a series of AI-generated double-sided jacquard weavings, uses a neural network trained on satellite data to model geological transformations of Mars over millions of years, hypothesizing the red planet’s wet past in deep time and its potential future as influenced by human intervention and desire. Likewise, her expansive textile practice transforms astronomical and satellite data into sensuous and tactile material form. Working in consultation with researchers at NASA-JPL, she prints 3D ceramic sculptures from simulated Mars regolith that cite indigenous coil pot techniques and the most advanced research in material science and space architecture. The title of the exhibition, In All Directions, at once signals the irrelevance of the compass points in the expansiveness of the universe, and the potential held in multi-cosmologies, temporalities, and the infinite that could help us rewrite the narratives of the past and imagine different futures that break the binary structures rooted in “discovery.” In All Directions includes several major bodies of work, such as Transposing a Form (2020), Above Below (2020), Standard Candle (2021–2023), and Pointing Star (2023), as well as new textiles and sculptures created for presentation at the CMA.Ĭentral to the exhibition is Rosalena’s investigation of scholarly and corporate dreams of space exploration and colonization, such as pottery series Transposing a Form. Through her art, indigenous and craft technologies open new knowledges between the ancient and the futuristic, the human and nonhuman, and handmade and autonomous. Her hybrid forms of ceramic, textile, and beadwork examine the geo-political effects of climate change, dispossession, and extractive economies through anti-colonial and feminist perspectives. Rosalena’s artworks fuse the materiality of traditional and indigenous craft techniques with emerging technologies to produce objects that break boundaries and borders imposed by colonialization. The Columbus Museum of Art is proud to present In All Directions by Sarah Rosalena (b. For additional information about Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti, including hours and admission costs, click below. If you need help planning your visit, call 614.221.6801. You do not need to purchase tickets in advance. Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions is included with the cost of general admission at Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti Broad St.September 9, 2023–FebruAdmission Information Read mare about Sara and her production in Eric Legatta’s recent piece in the Columbus Dispatch.Ģ p.m., Sat, Nov.


Her art and poetry have won a number of awards and have appeared in several books and magazines, including “Clover,” “Common Threads,” “Voice of Youth Advocates,” “Celebrating Art,” and the “America Library of Poetry.” Sara is a recipient of the Denison Book Award and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She won the Ohio Poetry Association High School Contest and was the Columbus District Poetry Slam Champion. In 2013, she came to Ohio with her family because of the war - and that’s when she started writing her poetry in English. Her family originates from Haifa, Palestine, but she was born and raised in Damascus, Syria. on Saturday, November 10, at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 East Broad Street. The show will be offered one more time in Columbus at 2 p.m. ‘A Map of Myself’ in Columbus Saturday, Novem2:00 pm EST to 3:30 pm ESTĭenison University student Sara Abou Rashed ’21 is presenting “A Map of Myself, a 60-Minute, One-Woman Revolution on War, Immigration, Language, History, Suitcases, and Everything in Between,” directed by Larry Smith.

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