Exhibitions
In addition to writing and publishing poetry, Matt creates and curates word-based multi-media art projects, often in collaboration with other artists and community organizations.
Project One Million Birds (submission period open)
Project One Million Birds is a collaborative exhibition, co-curated by Matt, consisting of postcards and letters sent to the migratory bird species around the world that face the existential threat of climate change. To participate in Project One Million Birds, send a postcard or letter consisting of a photograph or illustration of a migratory bird you love and a lyrical message written to that bird. Postcards and letters will be compiled and curated for exhibitions in Massachusetts, Wyoming, New Mexico and Italy.
Contact Matt for information on how to participate.
Jackson Hole Poetry Box (submission period open)
The Poetry Box is a project of Jackson Hole Writers and Jackson Hole Public Art offering free poems by poets with a Jackson Hole connection to passersby. The box itself was designed by John Frechette with funding from Jackson Hole Public Art and Teton County Library. The project was conceived of and administered by Meg Daly.
Contact Matt for submission information.
FoundSpace 2015-2020
Jackson Hole Land Trust & Jackson Hole Public Art
Jackson, Wyoming
FoundSpace explores the crossroads of art and land, and asks the community to participate in the artmaking process. The large-scale interactive installations created on protected properties link local artists and the community to found objects and conserved public land. Through FoundSpace, participants recover found objects and work together to create temporary interactive installations in a public open space.
O! How We Play, June/July 2017, Theatre Gallery
Center for the Arts
Jackson, Wyoming
“O! How We Play” is a collection of poetic experiments that emphasize the reader’s role in the creative process of making meaning. The poem at the heart of each piece in the exhibit has no clear beginning or end. Each piece in the exhibit challenges familiar reading conventions like left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and front-to-back. In the interplay between stanzas without a defined order and presentations of those stanzas without a conventional system for reading, it is up to each reader/viewer/listener to assemble the text to make the final poem.
