The following text is condensed from the article Copper and Collaboration in the "Unentitled" Exhibit at Marketview Arts found on the Visual Realia website.

Early during the summer of 2022, several members of the Collective Rogue Arts (CRA), an informal group of area creatives, artists, and entrepreneurs in south-central Pennsylvania, began discussing an exhibit of works focusing on collaborations between two or more artists.

As visual artists, we typically join an exhibit with many predetermined specifics: location, dates, times, exhibit themes, mediums, etc., but in this case, the task was designed from the opposite direction. We opened up this possibility to fellow CRA members.

Seven artists started down the path without a confirmed exhibit location and with only the concept of working on these joint works. During initial meetings, the artists themselves determined the exhibit theme, randomly selected initial collaborative partners for artworks, and a common color (copper) to use on individual 12" x 12" tiles that each would create.

Art is a powerful and valuable tool for looking at social issues, and this exhibit's artists chose to examine challenges around entitlement via their unique mediums, techniques, and place in life. The result is shared with visitors to the gallery space at York's Marketview Arts, part of York College of Pennsylvania's Center for Community Engagement.

In addition to collaborative works, exhibit guests will see individual sample art from each contributor. We hope you join Reagan Bitler, Ophelia Chambliss, Jeannine Dabb, Kristin Kest, Nicole Osborne, Andrew Smith, and Debbie Toluba in considering our continuing role in issues revolving around the challenges for the unentitled.

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August 19th - October 21st, 2023
Curator: Ivy Rodgers 

Marketview Arts
37 W. Philadelphia St.
York, Pennsylvania

To see and read the longer version of this piece, including collaborative works with Andrew Smith and fellow artists, visit Copper and Collaboration in the "Unentitled" Exhibit at Marketview Arts on the Visual Realia website.

All works copyright the artists and/or Andrew T. Smith