Professor Cherrie Sampson's Solo Exhibition Currently on View at the Joan Hisaoka Gallery
“every.single.one” Photographic/performance series for the camera, April, 2017. Part of the "every.single.one" project. (Photograph: Lisa Wigoda)
Mizzou's School of Visual Studies Professor Cherie Sampson’s solo exhibition, “Art, Cancer & Transformation” is currently on view at the Joan Hisaoka Gallery at the Smith Center for Healing & the Arts in Washington, DC from June 2 – July 31, 2023.
"Uphold (from below)," Video-performance, 2019. Shot in 2017; part of the "every,single.one" project.
“every.single.one” depicts personal, familial and community experiences with hereditary cancer while exploring topics of genetics, integrative oncology, and healing from a patient’s perspective of modern medicine. Constructed from lived experience, field notes, documentary A/V material, interviews, and scientific information, it is a dramatic interpretation of a universal human reality that explores the body as a site of uncertainty in illness and survival. The performance interweaves three levels of testimonial – the artist’s, her sister’s, and those of other hereditary cancer survivors and previvors.
Sampson has received generous internal support for the project including recent Research Council and Faculty International travel grants as well as a grant from the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center in the MU School of Medicine. She is also one of the cohorts in the Arts & Humanities Research & Creative Works Fellowship from the Office of the Provost and Division of Research, Innovation & Impact in its inaugural year of 2022.
Professor Sampson was invited to give an oral presentation at Ellis Fischel’s first Cancer Research Day event in May, where she received a Research Award from EFCC and the School of Medicine during that event. The “every.single.one” performance script is currently a finalist for the 2023 Jane Chambers Award. Sponsored by the Women and Theatre Program with the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE), the award recognizes new plays and performance texts created by women writers which present a feminist perspective that experiments in form and subject matter.
Links: