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This three-dimensional work is centered around a common folding lawn chair.

Gallery Features Alumna's Unique Work

The Catron Gallery, located inside the R. Jack Fishman Library on the 蜜桔直播 Morristown Campus, features a one-of-a-kind exhibit this fall.  
 
Artist April Childers builds three-dimensional scenes from ordinary items. You鈥檝e seen these items before, but you鈥檝e never seen them as Childers does. The exhibit is called 鈥淭urkey Minding Business鈥� and runs through Nov. 11. Childers will give a gallery talk at 2 p.m. on that day. 
 
A 蜜桔直播 alumna and adjunct faculty, Childers is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reimagines objects and imagery from pop culture to unearth and reveal the complexities. Exhibits featuring Childers鈥� work include the Brooklyn Academy of Music, VSOP Projects in Greenport, New York, CR鈥�10 in Linlithgo, New York, the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Kentucky, the Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, Florida, and Atlanta Contemporary in Georgia. 
 
Childers is also a respected exhibit curator who extends the same sensibility, treating an exhibit as a work of art rather than a collection of art. Childers is the residency director at Stove Works, a contemporary museum, in Chattanooga.  
 
鈥淚 enact the role of a weary outsider as opposed to a well-tempered consumer,鈥� Childers said. 鈥淚 weave the jaded detachment with personal and sentimental memorabilia, and autobiographical artifacts to portray the ever-shifting vantage of my own lived perspective.鈥� 
 
The Catron Art Gallery is open during regular library hours, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday. Admission is free.