Each academic year, after assessing surveys and participating in focus groups, ArtSeed’s executive director selects a theme to give structure to the next year’s artwork and exhibitions. Exploring topics ranging from politics to mortality, ArtSeed has never been afraid to break new ground – and challenge artists and students. Full activities summaries are listed on the pages below with working project annual themes/exhibition titles.
- 2024
Earthseed, Undergrowth, and Afterlife - 2023
Birds and Bees: Fact, Fantasy, and the Future of Art and Life on Earth - 2022
Dream Earth People on Sabbatical - 2021
New Normal: Learning from the Past to Move Forward Together - 2020
Only Zombies Race to Mass Extinction! - 2019
Rendering Power, Envisioning Freedom: Lawmakers, Lost Lives, and Peaceful Resolutions. - 2018
Mailing Home: Who Was John Brown? Who Is Jim Crow? Who Are We? - 2017
Marching Home: Valor, Freedom, and Stewardship as Paths to Peace! - 2016
Cottage Industry — Locomotion, Collaboration: Let’s Beat Poverty in All its Forms!
- 2015
Cottage Industry — Communication, Collaboration: Let’s Beat Poverty in All its Forms!
- 2014
Legacies and Living Spaces - 2012-2013
Sums, Sustenance and the Five Senses
- 2011-2012
75 Reasons Why: We Are The Bridge
- 2010-2011
Charting the Depths from the High Seas to the Mysterious Mind - 2009-2010
Health and Healing - 2008-2009
Structure & The Meaning of Life - 2007-2008
Hereafter: Futures with which we can Live? - 2006-2007
If I Ruled the World: Governance, Identity, and the Creative Process - 2005-2006
Money Makeovers: Office Move & 5th Anniversary Accounting - 2004-2005
Bridges: Engineering and City Planning - 2003-2004
Hiking Across America: Appalachia & Burnett CDC Outdoor Exchange - 2002-2003
Coloring Sounds: Music, Visual Arts and Collaboration - 2001-2002
Postcard to People in Power: Media & Communications - 2000-2001
Gods and Monsters: Virgil’s Dantes Inferno & Nelson Mandela’s Imprisonment
“Especially topics such as death, afterlife, heaven, hell, reincarnation … We fool ourselves when we think kids don’t think about stuff like this. To not have an outlet or to be denied one because it’s just not something we like to talk about is sad and a missed opportunity to get a peek inside their amazing landscape.” -Ymke Dioquino