Sunday, May 25th | 2pm | Free + in-person

Join us for this artist dialogue with artist Carlie Trosclair and artist/educator Heather Bird Harris about work in Trosclair’s current exhibit The Shape of Memory. Additional information coming soon.

Carlie Trosclair (b. New Orleans, LA) is a sculptor and installation artist who uses latex to record and reimagine the genealogy of home and its relationship to the natural world. Trosclair spent her formative years in historic residential properties at varying stages of construction and renovation. Reflectively her work contemplates the living and transitional components of home–both structurally and in our memory. Trosclair earned an M.F.A from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, a 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: La Napoule Art Foundation (FR), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Loghaven Artist Residency (TN), McColl Center (NC), Joan Mitchell Center (LA), Sculpture Space (NY), Tides Institute & Museum of Art (ME), and the Santa Fe Art Institute Changing Climate Residency (NM). Trosclair’s work has been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, BURNAWAY Magazine, and Temporary Art Review, among others. She has exhibited at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Ogden Museum, Bradbury Art Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art. Additionally, Trosclair has mounted solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, DeLand Museum of Art, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles, NARS Foundation Brooklyn, NY and Project Row Houses Houston, TX. Most recently Trosclair was selected as the South Arts Louisiana State Fellow for Visual Arts and awarded the 2024 Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship for the Visual Arts.

Heather Bird Harris is an artist, educator, writer, and curator. Her work explores the throughlines between history and ecological crises, engaging with communities, scientists, and site-specific materials to investigate possibilities for emergence and systems change. 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 the principal of a turnaround school in New Orleans and as a learning consultant for school leaders nationwide, focusing on anti-racist history curriculum. Recent exhibitions include Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Greenville, SC), NADA Curates, the New Mexico State University Museum, SITE at the Goat Farm (Atlanta, GA), Stoveworks (Chattanooga, TN), the Barnes Ogden Gallery at Louisiana State University, Science Gallery Atlanta, and apexart’s Plastic, the New Coal at the Descendants Project (Vacherie, LA). 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 selected for the Art & Social Justice Fellowship at Emory University in 2023. Harris’s artwork has been featured in ART PAPERS, Burnaway, NPR, ArtsATL, and on the Artist/Mother Podcast. Current projects include Sonoran Heritage Waters with musicians and ecologists at Arizona State University and Hope Springs Eternal in collaboration with activist group RISE St. James and New Orleans-based artists. Harris is an MFA candidate at Georgia State University. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her partner, Josh, and their two children.