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Collectors Circle—Jennifer Colten: Encounters in the Landscape
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Explore the landscape photography of local artist Jennifer Colten with Friends of Photography.
Since 2015, Jennifer Colten has concentrated her photographic work in the American Bottom: the 175 square miles of lowlands along the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, across from St. Louis. This landscape holds a complex layering of human and ecological conditions: floodplains, industries, company towns, farming, and Native American Mound sites. As in so many areas around the United States, the region of the American Bottom embodies multiple histories with essential human stories to be told, land to be acknowledged, and historical narratives to be reckoned with.
Registration is required. RSVP to [email protected] or call 314.655.5126.
About Jennifer Colten
Jennifer Colten is a photographer whose work examines the representation of landscape, embedded cultural geographies, and environmental implications of land use. Her work examines patterns of cultural erasure and is invested in multiple forms of collaboration with communities, local histories, and public spaces. Colten is part of a team of artists, educators, and researchers recently awarded a Mellon Foundation Humanities Grant for the project Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange.
In 2021, Colten was included in the Saint Louis Art Museum’s exhibition, Art Along the Rivers, where her photographs were placed both inside the museum exhibition as well as on six billboards in the landscape of the American Bottom.
Collectors Circle schedule
5:30 pm, Auditorium Lobby
Reception
6:30 pm, Education Center
Presentation by Jennifer Colten
After Hours Event Entry
This event occurs after the Museum closes to the public at 5 pm. The Museum will reopen for event attendees.
Collectors Circle programs at the Saint Louis Art Museum are presented by the Betsy and Thomas Patterson Foundation.
