Neighborhood: PALIMPSEST/ Barrio: PALIMPSESTO

Neighborhood: PALIMPSEST/ Barrio: PALIMPSESTO is an off-site iteration of Horizontes, the “artist-driven, community engagement art project that aims to connect two underrepresented neighborhoods in north Wichita.” Co-organized with Armando Minjarez, the exhibition features the work of Wichita-based artists Alexis Rivierre, Bernardo Trevizo Jr., and Janice Thacker, together with New Orleans-based artist Ana Hernandez. Collectively the artists will reference the multilayered histories of these areas, illustrating ways in which we mark and experience residential communities. They are utilizing a variety of media that combine mapping, personal narrative, architecture and portraiture, to identify how the practices of redlining, urban planning and gentrification have targeted racialized neighborhoods in Wichita and beyond. At the same time, the exhibition reveals and is a tribute to the resilience of character that exists in these spaces in the face of ongoing systemic discrimination and attempts of erasure.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website