Family Tree brings together the work of four sisters to “talk about trees.” As curators, painters, photographers and writers, we portray trees in conditions in and outside of human care and conflict. Genealogical roots and botanical roots intertwine.
Family Tree will be on display at the Sordoni Art Gallery from April 22 through June 1, 2025. We hope that you join us for our Art in Context Gallery Talk with artist Susanne Slavick on April 22 at 5 pm. Free and open to the public. Free wine/beer bar and lite fare to follow the lecture.
Susanne Slavick is an artist, curator and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. She studied at Yale University, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and Tyler School of Art in Rome and Philadelphia. Her traveling curatorial projects include When the Bough Breaks (2019); Marx@200 (2018); Unloaded (2015-19); and Out of Rubble (2011-15). Recent exhibits include those at University of Virginia, Gettysburg College, McDonough Museum of Art, Chicago Cultural Center, and Accola Griefen Gallery (NYC). Honors include multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the 2019 College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award and Carnegie Mellon’s Henry Hornbostel Teaching Award. She has published in books and journals including: Formations of Identity: Society, Politics, and Landscape; Cairo: Images of Transition; Journal of Visual Culture; Technology and Culture; Hyperallergic, and Cultural Politics.