Matthew Fluharty is the executive director of Art of the Rural and a member of the M12 collective, with whom he recently collaborated on the Equine Anthology project at the Santa Fe Art Institute. His photographs and fieldwork from the American Bottom Archive, a collaboration with artist and landscape architect Jesse Vogler, were recently the subject of an exhibition at Central Features in Albuquerque.
Local Practice: Mn Artists Guest Editor Matthew Fluharty
For his term as guest editor of Mn Artists, Matthew Fluharty chose to reframe rural arts and culture through the lens of “local practice”: “the questions and relationships raised through deep, long-term, on-the-ground engagement with the particularities of place and community, whether within urban neighborhoods or rural locations”.
