In 2021, artist Rosy Petri was named the inaugural Artist in Residence at the bell hooks center in Berea, Kentucky. On her way to that position, Rosy took a solo road trip that took her one month and 14 hundred miles. Some of the photos she took on that trip are now a part of her solo show “America Altars.” 

American Altars is now at Arts + Literature Laboratory (ALL) in Madison through September 1st. In her own words, American Altars is Rosy’s “attempt at embodying a journey of cultural remembrance, ancestral grief, and the emotional reckoning required of Black people on the move in America of all generations from the post-insurrection perspective”

Rosy Petri joins A Public Affair along side Jim Kreul, the Public Programs Coordinator at ALL.

Rosy Petri is a mother, self-taught artist, and storyteller from Milwaukee. Her multidisciplinary works fuse fabric portraiture, multimedia storytelling, and illustration as an act of witness.

Jim Kreul is the Public Programs Coordinator at Arts + Lit Lab . He is also a video artist and curates the Mills Folly Microcinema film series.

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