Contemporary Art Galleries is pleased to present Silk Flowers, a public art exhibition taking place in vacant garden beds along the Fairfield Way walking path on the University of Connecticut’s Storrs Campus. This path is the main thoroughfare reserved for student foot traffic, connecting important sources of campus life and cultural knowledge including the Student Union, Homer Babbidge Library, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, and the William Benton Museum of Art.

The thirteen artists included in this exhibition utilize the platform of the political yard sign as means of both visibility and creative communication in a landscape currently filled with visual repetition. While yard signage has traditionally been used as a marketing tool to aid in name recognition, Silk Flowers invites viewers to consider the complexities of policy, visibility and representation in relation to the upcoming election. These works are less persuasive and more demonstrative, occupying a state of solidarity, or encouragement rather than serving as simple visual polarity.

All are welcome - Masks required - Please maintain a distance of 6 feet or more from others

This event will take place along UConn’s Fairfield Way