![]() Working closely with the Momentary’s production team, Rumwolf will continue to experiment with video and projection mapping methods using LED wall technology to be implemented in the design of the piece. Anchored by a suite of songs composed by Rumwolf in 2021–2022, the show will combine elements of installation and narrative fiction with varying time-based performance techniques. ![]() He lives in Bentonville with his daughter Lyric.ĭuring his residency at the Momentary, Rumwolf will begin development of a new performance piece planned for a 2024 premiere. ![]() Most recently, he directed and produced the original performance art installation Jay Benham’s Kiowa Ledger Art, presented at the University of Arkansas’s multicultural center. Additionally, Rumwolf was awarded a CXF curator’s grant from CACHE and supported by the Tyson Family Foundation, which he used to mount the interactive art gallery POP A.V. Rumwolf was a featured artist for the University of Arkansas’s 150-year anniversary program contributing his video mapping sculpture The Great Glass Elevator. He also produced the 2022 Black Apple Awards for The Idle Class Magazine in addition to being featured as an artist and curator for the event. He was commissioned by Brooklyn-based performing arts collective TRIBE as an installation consultant for the world premiere of Touch of Red at MASS MoCA. In 2022, he worked as the production manager for the Live in America festival, a project by Fusebox Festival in partnership with the Momentary. In the same year, he was a resident artist at CACHE Studios and began his ongoing “Maker in Residency” at the Amazeum Interactive Children’s Museum. ![]() In 2020, he collaborated with vertical dance group BANDALOOP for the Momentary’s grand opening festival Time Being, and again for a repeat performance in the fall of 2021. In his various roles, Rumwolf plays an active part in the Northwest Arkansas art community and beyond. Rumwolf works professionally as a director, producer, consultant, and production specialist in the performance and live production field as well as commercially as a freelance graphics and sound designer. Often using his large collection of ephemera, Rumwolf combines found objects and ready-mades with contemporary forms of projection mapping, multi-media sculpture, animation, and video art along with traditional forms of painting and illustration. His practice focuses on the relationship between art, emotion, and technology expressed through themes of humor, pop culture, and nostalgia. Rumwolf is a multi-disciplinary visual installation artist, musician, and filmmaker based in the Ozarks. Important to highlight, his first poetry book, HOMES (Coffee House Press 2021), dwells in the natural-cultural sprawl of the Great Lakes region as it reckons, like much of his work, with issues of modernity, identity, place, and belonging. He has degrees from The New School for Social Research and the University of Toronto and currently lives in Minnesota outside the Twin Cities, coupled with hybrid writer Kathryn Savage, her son, and his dog inside hard at work and play. He has presented writing, performance, installation, and video work at diverse literary, art, and public spaces in the US and Canada with support from the Banff Centre, Pillsbury House, Joyce Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, where he has been a multi-year resident, among others. Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest. She also plans on reintroducing classical Indian dance, bharatanatyam (an artform she was immersed in as a youth), to her daily routine and performance practice.įollowing a presentation at FreshGrass | Bentonville in May, Moheb Soliman and his collaborators on the We’re Back! project will convene for a two-week residency for development of a future full-length album. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and currently lives and works in Houston, TX.ĭuring her residency at the Momentary, Preetika will expand on a series of self-portraiture, focusing on motherland mythologies and where they align and intersect with her personal, queer narrative. She has been in residence at Oxbow School of Art, ACRE, Vermont Studio Center, and the School of Visual Arts NYC, and she has exhibited and performed in spaces such as Material Art Fair in CDMX, Untitled at Miami Basel, the Asia Society Texas Center, Roots & Culture, the Donnelley Foundation in Chicago, SOMArts in San Francisco, Women & Their Work in Austin, and Diverseworks Houston. Preetika Rajgariah is a multidisciplinary artist whose works examine the complicated intersections of cultural + queer identity, nostalgia, and capitalist consumption while referencing her traditional upbringing as an Indian-born American. Preetika Rajgariah: MAR 19 – APR 30, 2023 ![]()
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