M12 Studio
M12 is a group of award-winning artists, researchers, and writers collectively based in Colorado. Primarily known for art projects that explore public space, rural cultures and landscapes, M12 holds a unique position as both a non-profit arts organization and an artistic practice. Projects of M12 have appeared in THE magazine, Santa Fe, NM 5280, Denver, CO The Rural: Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London, (2019, MIT Press), Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West (2014, The New Press, Lucy R. Lippard) and What is a Western? (2019, Oklahoma University Press, Josh Garrett-Davis) along with others.
M12 creates artworks, research projects, and education initiatives centered around context and place. The studio blends multiple fields, allowing research, fieldwork, design and site-specific sculpture to merge. Speaking to the complexities of rural places, M12 has been recipients of numerous awards including those from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Colorado Creative Industries; The National Endowment for the Arts; The Gates Family Foundation; The Indianapolis Community Foundation; The Minneapolis Foundation, and others.
Recent exhibitions and commissioned works by M12 have appeared at: The 21st International Art Biennial of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; The 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy; The Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX; The Santa Fe Art Institute, NM; The Des Moines Public Art Foundation, Des Moines, IA; Corcoran Gallery, School of Art in Washington DC; The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM; IASKA Australian Biennial, Perth, Australia; Biennial of the Americas, Denver, CO; The Kohler Arts Center, WI; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; and The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City, CA / Wendover, NV.
M12 is currently: Richard Saxton, Margo Handwerker, Matthew Fluhart, Kirsten Stoltz, Trent Segura, Marc McCay, George Perez, Stuart Hyatt, Mary Rothlisberger and Christopher Sauter.
M12 is creating a site-specific installation for The Space(s) Between, titled Black Forest Institute. Photos of the 2021 installation will be up shortly. In the meantime, take a look at the project in a previous iteration at left. The image used is Black Forest Burn Scar, 2013-2021, M12 STUDIO digital archive image.
The Black Forest Institute Dialogues Series is generously sponsored by the UCCS Green Action Fund and the CU President's Fund for the Humanities.