Crossing The Great divide Landscape and memory retraces the frontier paths of American immigration onto the Great Plains and on to the Pacific Ocean, beginning at Rogers Avenue in Chicago or Indian Boundary Line 1816. This journey will also be an exploration of the changing aspect of the arts and globalization.
Beginning in June 2015, Don Pollack, Julia Pollack, Anders Pollack, Adrian Down, Mark Cleveland, Pat Cleveland, Quincy Stewart, Matt Harlen, and Gretchen Johnson will be traversing the landscapes of the American frontier via bicycle for over 3000miles and holding a ‘mobile conference/dialogue’ with people around the world focusing on the landscape and transcending divisive boundaries. We will be living a nomadic life for over 2 months working on ‘Crossing the Great Divide’. By linking digitally, the goal is to transcend limited notions of a national or environmental border and tell our local stories in a global dialog that brings us closer and reconnects us to place. (The project will also address the notion of our journey as an act of reconciliation with history and Native America.) Upon conclusion to the journey and mobile conference, an exhibition of, maps, paintings, logbook entries, and presentations will be made and exhibited in Chicago.
http://www.crossingthegreatdivide.net/project/
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