Exhibit Dates | August 29 - October 5, 2013

This exhibit celebrates the uniquely rural tradition of dirt-track racing through race car installations, multimedia audio and video displays, artifacts and ephemera from races, and photographic documentation of one family's commitment to the sport over multiple generations. M12's Richard Saxton and Kirsten Stoltz will engage UCCS students, faculty and community in groundbreaking and award-winning M12 creative projects uniting rural culture and identity with documentary installation and performance. 

About M12

In 2002, M12's Founder and Creative Director, Richard Saxton began working under the moniker municipalWORKSHOP (mW), which was an itinerant creative laboratory dedicated to the creation of contemporary public art projects in small communities around the US. Saxton developed M12 from its outrider mW. Saxton is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado in Boulder and has developed the M12 partnership with CU in recent years, starting the Art and Rural Environments Field School, which aids M12's programmatic mission in rural eastern Colorado.

Over the last fifteen years Kirsten Stoltz, M12's Programming Director, has focused primarily on interdisciplinary arts programming. Previously, Stoltz worked as Curator for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and Director and Curator of the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Saxton's family homesteaded in Western Nebraska and Stoltz' in Eastern Colorado (the home sites are roughly 4 hours from each other and both lie within minutes of the 102^nd meridian west). Saxton and Stoltz both hold a deep appreciation for the Plains region in the US, and both draw inspiration from the landscape and communities of this part of the world. Working through M12, they understand that the preservation of rural communities and reconstitution of urban/rural realities is crucial to life in the 21^st century.

The M12 Collective has been featured widely nationally and internationally including the 13^th International Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy, IASKA International Art Biennial in Australia, Yuma Museum and Historical society, The Ornitarium in Denmark, Biennial of the Americas in Colorado, and SILO Art Space in Wisconsin. M12 was just awarded a significant National Endowment for the Arts "Our Town" grant to support the design and implementation of a collaborative project with Swedish art collective Kultivator titled "Gran's University: Ornaments of Knowledge" in Last Chance, Colorado.

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