Illumination Series
The Illumination Series is a collaboration between the Walton Arts Center and Creative Community Center. The partnership's mission is to highlight practicing Arkansas affiliated artists and the Creative Community Center's engagement in visual arts while spotlighting large scale visual art that responds to the site and speaks to an architectural scale.
Exhibition
Indeterminable Trajectory but Most Assuredly Staked
By Caite Mae Ramos
LOCATION: Walker Atrium at Walton Arts Center
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Caite Mae Ramos (b.1991 Springdale, Arkansas) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who utilizes woodworking, drawing, and plants toinvestigate their relationship with the land.
Ramos is an Oglala Lakota citizen of The Sioux Nation and founding member of the Prairie Pedagogy Research Group. Consulting and collaborating with botanists, The University of Arkansas Herbarium, and various remnant prairies they create work and syllabi that incorporate lived and scientific research to connect with the leafy and legged things that surround us.
In 2015, Ramos received their BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. After graduation Ramos spent two years on the Olympic Peninsula fully immersed in the landscape and moved back to Northwest Arkansas in 2017. Ramos became a Master Gardener that same year and has been obsessed with growing plants in alternative ways in a home environment with limited access to land. Ramos received The Artist 360 Graduate Fellow.