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Texas Art at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts’ “Delta Triennial”

August 4, 2024 | Jessica Fuentes
Even before walking into the exhibition, Texas art takes center stage as Colette Copeland’s sound installation Texas Sounding: Let Your Voice Be Heard is presented in the elevator lobbies of the museum. The work is an ongoing community-based collaborative project. In response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and proposed Texas legislation that compromises LGBTQ rights, Copeland invited people from historically marginalized groups, such as women, non-binary, and queer folks, to record their voices. At various locations, including Richard Serra’s Vortex on the grounds of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, guests were asked to vocalize a phrase or a series of phrases they wanted to send out into the universe.

Texas Artists Selected for the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts “2024 Delta Triennial”

May 7, 2024 | Jessica Fuentes
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) has announced the 39 selected and seven invited artists who will participate in its 2024 Delta Triennial, including seven artists from Texas…The selected Texas artists include Colette Copeland in Frisco; Brian Ellison and Lindsay Peyton in Houston; Andrew Lyman and Leigh Merrill in Dallas; and Philana Oliphant in Tyler. Additionally, Letitia Huckaby (in Fort Worth) was among the invited artists, each of whom will represent a Mid-South state.

Soundings: Voice (h)as Object

June 2023 | Randee Silv
Last summer, I was part of the collaborative, experimental sound art residency Field Kitchen Academy in Perleberg, Germany (outside of Berlin), studying with sonic thinker and composer Sam Auinger. I created some works with the female-identifying and non-binary residents, recording their voices individually in an 1830s old rusted barn silo. The inside of the silo had a swastika chalked on wall from vandals. We made a new drawing transforming the hate symbol into something positive and used our voices to embody the space into one that was more inclusive. Our residency theme was the Voice as Object, the Object (h)as Voice and each participant repeated the phrase in their 1st language.

Talking with Glasstire Contributor Colette Copeland

April 2023 | Leslie Moody Castro
I first met Colette Copeland at Artpace in San Antonio in January of 2021. I remember it vividly, because it was my first time back in the states since COVID changed all our lives, and our time coincided with her first writing residency at Artpace — a program that has since grown organically because Colette has fostered that relationship. I had no idea then that we would work so extensively and closely together through my (unexpected) time as Guest Editor at Glasstire.

Season 3 Episode 4 – Colette Copeland – Experimental Filmmaker

October 2022 | Ken Hess
Inspired by Dada and Situationist Theater, Colette Copeland is a multi-media visual artist whose work examines issues surrounding gender, death, and contemporary culture. Sourcing personal narratives and popular media, she utilizes video, photography, performance, and sculptural installation to question societal roles and the pervasive influence of media and technology on our communal enculturation. Her videos employ experimental narrative techniques and absurdist humor to explore the landscape of human relationships.

Five-Minute Tours: Colette Copeland at Jody Klotz Fine Art, Abilene

July 2022 | Glasstire
Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits and artist-run spaces across the state of Texas send us video walk-throughs of their current exhibitions. This will continue while the coronavirus situation hinders public access to exhibitions. Let’s get your show in front of an audience.
Via Jody Klotz Fine Art: “Art and history collide in an exciting and engaging exhibition this summer at Jody Klotz Fine Art. The gallery will have two series of etchings by the prolific Dallas-based artist Colette Copeland from her project entitled My Jesse James Adventure.

Colette Copeland’s “Jesse James Adventure” — Revisiting the Family Outlaw History

July 2022 | L.E. McCullough
SOUTH HILLS-RAISED, Mt. Lebanon High School-graduated Colette Copeland is an accomplished visual artist, innovative arts teacher and prolific arts writer.
She’s also notorious by nature — a direct descendant of 19th-century Wild West outlaw Jesse James, whose complex historical reality remains indelibly blurred in the American Pop Consciousness after more than 150 years of relentless mythmaking via films, songs, plays, dime novels, comic books and super-sensationalistic journalism.

On the Hunt: Colette Copeland’s “My Jesse James Adventure”

July 2022 | Megan Wilson Krznarich
Although the United States prides itself on being a land where everyone has opportunity regardless of where you come from, who you come from still holds great weight. People are deeply committed to uncovering the truths of their lineage, and use DNA technology to both verify the stories that have been passed down and uncover those that have been long buried. Colette Copeland plays with this uncomfortable duality in Colette Copeland: My Jesse James Adventure at the Old Jail Art Center, seeking to come closer to the truth of her ancestors despite their complicated histories.

Colette Copeland: My Jesse James Adventure at the Old Jail Art Center and Jody Klotz Fine Art

June 2022 | Sherry Cheng
Driving alone through the middle of the country, spanning nine states and more than 4,000 miles, Dallas-based artist, cultural critic, and social activist Colette Copeland spent three summers visiting the numerous sites where Jesse James lived and outlawed, filming on location throughout her performative journey. The result is a 22-channel video installation which will be on view June 4-August 20 at the Old Jail Art Center (OJAC) in Albany, TX as part of its Cell Series, a long-standing series of exhibitions featuring the works of contemporary Texas artists.

Faculty Spotlight

February 2022 | Nonesuch Newsletter, School of Arts & Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas
Colette Copeland, an A&H lecturer who teaches photography design and topics in studio art, recently published an essay in Glasstire about the “Avery style” discussing the Milton Avery exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Avery Legacy exhibition at the Jody Klotz Fine Art Gallery.