Snakebite, a small gallery space in Tucson, is owned by artists Geneva Foster Gluck and Racheal Rios who set out to fill a void in the downtown art scene. Modeled after various “creation spaces” they visited in different cities, Snakebite provides underrepresented artists a space to be more experimental with their work, to create discourse, and build community. Artist Lizz Denneau is one of those artists who used the space to test her thesis for a low residency MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Using a variety of mediums and found objects, Denneau’s sculptures unearth erased histories of the black diaspora and systems of racism and class. These histories, ingrained in ephemera and relics used in her work, invite us to examine what she calls “a collective ancestry and generational memory.”
Producer: Cáit NíSíomón
Videographers: Eryka Dellenbach, Diana Cadena, Nate Huffman
Editor: Nate Huffman
AZPM is a service of the University of Arizona and our broadcast stations are licensed to the Arizona Board of Regents who hold the trademarks for Arizona Public Media and AZPM. We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples.
By submitting your comments, you hereby give AZPM the right to post your comments and potentially use them in any other form of media operated by this institution.