SNAX = Small Nomadic Art Experiences
Yaku began using empty store front to share for one night the opportunity to experience Art. These exhibitions are now installed in a mobile storage pod, presented in a central and accessible location. Yaku provides a reception event that offers insight into the work, community fellowship, and opportunities to learn more about other local art events.
SNAX 06
Presenting the Artist Elizabeth Allen-Cannon
Elizabeth Allen-Cannon is an artist working primarily in painting and collage. Her work explores the amorphous and unstable qualities of feminine stereotypes, as well as constructions of feminine authorship and selfhood. Attracted to that which is dated, sentimental, and matronly, she uses painting as a site for the obsessive untangling of the past, and for the endless project of her own self-reinvention.
SNAX 05
Artist : Whit Forrester
They have a BA in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College and an MFA in Photography from Columbia College. Exhibited widely, in both national and international contexts, and with a range of aesthetic interests that include: practices of accumulation, manifestations of power, diaspora, noetic science, new materialisms, discourses around the transcendent and the material relationship between self and world. These encounter fusion around ideas of collective liberation, quantum feminisms, queer theory, and decolonization as a spiritual practice.
SNAX 04
Artist : Jane Ryder
Jane Garrett Ryder was born and raised in the fine state of Illinois. In 2005 she received her BFA from Bradley University and went on to earn her MFA at Northern Illinois University four years later. In 2009 Ryder moved from Northern Illinois to South Central Iowa; where she can be found tromping through various muddy environments in search of fossils, arrowheads, and new artistic content. Her change from an urban environment to a rural setting has influenced her paintings in many significant ways. A deeper understanding of the interactions between man, animal, plant, dirt, water, and sun have affected the content and compositions of Ryders body of work.
SNAX 03
Theme: SIDEWAYS
Art collectives: Maik Alles Gute (Germany), Vejiga de Pez ( Peru), Atelier Lamine ( France)
Artists: Heather Brammaier, Patrick Moser
SNAX 02
Artist: Katie Yancey
Katie Yancey (born in 1985 in Peoria, Illinois) currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She obtained her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009 and received an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
SNAX 01
In the Pekin Express former restaurant we organized a Film screening and a live performance. Film Peoria by French artist Coralie Maurin and Performance SV.s3 by Natalia Villanueva Linares with 9 participants: Angela Inez Baldus, Jenny Foster, Julie Miller, Britney Ferrero, Caitlin Keturi, Mandi Coombs and Christine Knuerr.
SNAX 00
We presented in an empty storefront on Main St the film Peoria by French artist Coralie Maurin and a performance SV.s2 by artist Natalia Villanueva Linares with 7 participants: Chris Bradley, Jenny Foster, Randy Ross, Alexandra , Kristine Chisamore and Christine Knuerr.