ALL Flat File Project 2024-2026

Arts + Literature Laboratory, PhotoMidwest, and FlakPhoto Projects present the ALL Flat File Project 2024-2026, a rotating collection of 2-D printed work by Midwest artists, debuing Tuesday, September 17, 2024 in the first floor lobby flat file cabinet.

Each year, a cohort of ten artists will be invited to add up to five works to a flat file drawer for a two year cycle. For 2024-2026, FlakPhoto Projects director Andy Adams curated the inaugural Flat File cohort of ten Midwest photographers and features work from artists living in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

The public can view the work with staff assistance during ALL’s gallery hours, by appointment, or through an online gallery (details forthcoming).

A reception for the FlakPhoto Flat File Project and other PhotoMidwest Festival 2024 exhibits on display at Arts + Literature Laboratory will be held on Friday, September 27, 5:00-8:00pm.

Deanna Dikeman

Deanna Dikeman was born in 1954 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She has photographed her midwestern family and surroundings since 1985 when she left a corporate job to try a photography class. She graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Biology and a M.S. in Management. Deanna received the Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in 1996, the United States Artists Booth Fellowship in 2008, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography in 2023.

Deanna’s largest and longest photography project documented her parents and other family in her hometown. That work included 27 years of photographs of her parents waving goodbye to her as she left from visiting them. “A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell” was one of the top 25 stories of 2020 in The New Yorker. She has two books published by Chose Commune: Leaving and Waving in 2021 and Relative Moments in 2024. Leaving and Waving was a finalist for the 2021... Read More

Keith Taylor

Keith Taylor is a photographer and printmaker working with traditional, historical, and contemporary photo processes. Originally from London, Taylor has lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 1996.

Taylor's work has been widely exhibited across the U.S., the U.K., and Europe. He is a five-time recipient of fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and he was awarded a place in the Minnesota Center for Book Arts/Jerome Foundation mentorship program.

Sarah Stellino

Sarah Stellino’s photographs explore topics of intimacy, identity and legacy. She is driven by a deep sense of the importance of record-keeping and legacy-making and the impact that can have on future generations. She lives and works in Madison, WI and was a 2022 Finalist for the Women Artists Forward Fund. Sarah has exhibited work in Manhattan, New York and Madison, Wisconsin.

Erinn Springer

Erinn Springer is a photographer from Dunn County, Wisconsin. Embracing the character of rural life, her work is inspired by the cycles of the land, memory, and mortality. Reviewed in The New Yorker as "A Tender and Knowing Portrait of Life in Rural Wisconsin," Erinn’s work has been referred to as an anthropological and intimate view of the midwest. It has garnered features and commissions by The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, M Le Monde, NPR, Vogue, among others. Erinn’s debut monograph, "Dormant Season," published in the fall of 2023, will be the subject of her 2025 solo show at The Museum of Wisconsin Art.

R.J. Kern

R. J. Kern is an American artist whose work investigates ideas of home, ancestry, and a sense of place. His portraits focus on intimate, interdependent relationships of people, animals, and landscape. Accolades include Critical Mass Top 50 (2018, 2021), CENTER 2017 Choice Award Winner (Curator’s Choice, First Place), Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 160 (Silver Medal), 2017; PDN’s 30 2018; and six grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Kern was the Commemorative Artist for the 2019 Minnesota State Fair. Monographs include The Sheep and the Goats (Kehrer Verlag, 2017) and The Unchosen Ones (MW Editions, 2021). Public collections include Minneapolis Institute of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He thrives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mike Sinclair

Photographer Mike Sinclair’s subjects have included state and county fairs, parades, Fourth of July celebrations, parks, amateur musicals, artist’s studios, and the parks, boulevards, sidewalks and architecture of his hometown Kansas City. His most recent book The Paseo & Ward Parkway was self-published in 2022. His 2016 book, The Nelson, looked at Kansas City’s new relationship with its most prestigious institution. His photographs are in several public and private collections including The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Charlotte Street Award.

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Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

Our galleries are open Tuesday through Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday noon to 5pm, and other programs take place throughout the week. Please check the events calendar and education section for details.

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