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Black Forest Institute, M12 Studio

Pikes Wilderness burn scar cut timber firewood, wood stove, dialogue 

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. 

The Black Forest Institute Dialogues Series is generously sponsored by the UCCS Green Action Fund and the CU President's Fund for the Humanities.

For more information about the Fireside Dialogue Series visit https://gocadigital.org/outdoor-exhibitions/m12-bfi-dialogues.

Art Without Limits Sculpture Tour
  1. Sunrise Serenade, Starr Kempf
  2. Space Needle, Starr Kempf
  3. The Cloak of the Motion, Linda Fleming
  4. Metronome, Starr Kempf
  5. Oasis 64 and Opus Series, Bill Burgess
  6. Lapping at the Peak, Ball Nogues Studio
  7. Stair Projection, Andrew Huffman
  8. Black Forest Institute, M12 Studio
  9. Fool's Gold, Conor Dowdle
  10. Here Through There, Tyler Beard & Amelia Carley
  11. The Windmill Project, Patrick Marold