lobby projects is a new initiative by the Birmingham Museum of Art that invites contemporary artists to create site-specific commissions in the Museum’s main entrance.

Artist talk: 6:00PM

Steiner Auditorium

Collins’ project, titled The Problem We All Live With, features a mixed-media installation using archives of The Birmingham News to examine the intersection of race, language, and violence.

A native of Montgomery, Alabama, Bethany Collins is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually-driven work is fueled by a critical exploration of how race and language interact. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at venues throughout the united states, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum of Art, and the Flint Institute of Arts. She is currently living and working in Atlanta, Georgia.

This edition of lobby projects has been made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Birmingham, and in-kind support from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History.