ART 365: Liz Rodda by Holly Wall The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s exhibition Art 365 will open at [ArtSpace] at Untitled in Oklahoma City in March 2011. Five artists each receive a $12,000 honorarium and one year of interaction with curator Shannon Fitzgerald. Visit www.Art365.org for more information.
It wasn’t the opportunity to work on a year-long art project that attracted Norman’s Liz Rodda to the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s Art 365; rather, it was the opportunity to work with Oklahoma City-based curator Shannon Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is an independent curator and writer who recently curated the exhibitions Brandon Anschultz: Transmission/Destination for the Center of Creative Arts and Our Commodity: Juan William Chávez, Sarah Frost, Leslie Mutchler for the Regional Arts Commission, both in St. Louis. “She’s curated a number of exhibits with significant artists,” Rodda said. “I find she’s really approachable, even though she’s so accomplished. “She has no agenda to change my work or any artist’s work,” Rodda continued. “She offers insightful observations and listens to what I have to say, to what I see in the work.” In addition to working with Fitzgerald, Art 365 has given Rodda the opportunity to create a large, intensive work based on themes she regularly explores as a multimedia artist. Rodda, an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, refers to her project as Tomorrows, although the title may change before it goes on display next March, and it involves four elements. The first of those four is a three-channel video titled Triple Possibility, which Liz Rodda, Norman, Untitled (model for exhibition), single-channel video
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