SOBI Connect at The Hunter Museum
SOBI CONNECT was an immersive, interactive art experience created in collaboration with the Hunter Museum of American Art in response to The Hunter Invitational V exhibition. Designed as a roaming gallery activation, the event invited audiences to engage with art beyond observation through a series of live artist-led stations positioned throughout the exhibition.
Each participating local artist was paired with a featured exhibition artist and tasked with creating a multidisciplinary response inspired by the work on view. Through sound, movement, collage, textile work, and participatory installations, guests were encouraged to create, experiment, and contribute alongside the artists in real time.
Meet the Artists
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Briah Gober
Visual Artists & Polaroid Photographer
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Darcie Denton
Visual Artist
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Porchia Turner
Audio Producer
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PROVIDENCE Newson Dance Company
Afro-Contemporary Dance Company
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Rhyme-N-Chatt
Interactive Nonprofit Poetry Organization
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Vee Rhodes
Fashion Stylist
Gallery Activations
Picking Wildflowers
By Darcie DentonPicking Wildflowers an interactive art installation created in response to the work of exhibition artists, Katie Hargrave and Meredith Laura Lynn, reflects on the relationship between humans and beauty, especially that of the natural world.
This experience invited our guests to reflect on their own relationship with beauty and what instincts they may feel or act upon when encountering it.
What do you take, what do you give, and how do your actions affect yourself and others?
Learn more about the artist: Darcie Denton
Learn more about the exhibition artists and their original work, Bad Outdoorsmen: Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn
Distorted Nature
By Porchia TurnerDistorted Nature is an immersive soundscape exploring the relationship between nature and technology through sound.
Designed to accompany the work of exhibition artist Corrine Colarusso, this audio experience reimagines natural elements through layered sonic textures.
Learn more about the artists: Porchia Turner
Learn more about the exhibition artist: Corrine Colarusso
Patchwork
By Vee RhodesDrawing inspiration from exhibition artist Anna Carll’s exploration of layering, texture and abstraction, Vee Rhodes translated these ideas into a collaborative patchwork experience.
Audience members were invited to contribute pieces of fabric to a collective work that Vee assembled in real time, creating an evolving piece shaped by shared participation.
Learn more about the artist: Vee Rhodes
Learn more about the exhibition artist: Anna Carll
Beneath & Buried
Performed by PROVIDENCE Newson Dance CompanyBeneath & Buried is an interactive movement installation inspired by and titled after the original work of exhibition artist , Althea Murphy-Price whose work examines the intersections of femininity, racial identity, and adornment.
Developed in collaboration with local dancers and company members of PROVIDENCE Newson Dance Company, A’maya Collins and Serenity Bester, alongside PROVIDENCE Artistic Director Crystal Newson, the experience translated movement vocabulary from the company’s performance work into an audience-driven installation.
The installation invited audiences to engage with these themes as active participants, shaping the performance in real time through prompts and gestures.
Learn more about the artists: PROVIDENCE Newson Dance Company
Learn more about the exhibition artist: Althea Murphy-Price
Reflection
Facilitated by Rhyme N ChattResponding to the work of exhibition artist Craig Drennen’s exploration of failure, unfinished work, and the lessons that emerge from disappointment, Rhyme N Chatt facilitated a participatory writing station inviting guests to reflect on their own experiences with failure and transformation.
Drawing inspiration from Timon of Athens, a play considered unfinished and unsuccessful in Shakespeare’s lifetime, this station encouraged visitors to reconsider failure not as an endpoint, but as a space for growth, reflection, and possibility.
Learn more about the artists: Rhyme N Chatt
Learn more about exhibition artist: Craig Drennen
Love Language
By Briah GoberResponding to exhibition artist, Jerushia Graham’s call to imagine a more compassionate world, Briah Gober invited guests to reflect on the images within the exhibition and consider the question: What does love look like to you?
Participants had the opportunity to recreate moments or gestures inspired by the original artwork or create their own expressions of love through pose, movement, or connection with others, while Briah captured these moments using a Polaroid camera.
These images were then displayed in the gallery during the duration of the event and were later given to participants as a keepsake.
Learn more about the artist: Briah Gober
Learn more about exhibition artist: Jerushia Graham
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