“Collective Inheritance” presented by Annalisa Gojmerac

PCA&D’s Work/Space, at 133 S. Duke St., York, is pleased to welcome artist Annalisa Gojmerac’s Collective Inheritance in exhibition July 21 through Aug. 3. Featuring nature-based land art, Collective Inheritance has ties to local urban community gardening and natural  place-making/greenscaping projects, manipulating found objects as well as recycled materials. 

The mixed-media exhibition will be open to the public during York First Friday, Aug. 1, from 5-9 pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays during the artist residency from noon to 3 pm. 

A traditionally trained printmaker, Gojmerac earned a BFA (Honors) from Maryland Institute College of Art (Printmaking major/ Art History minor) Baltimore, Maryland, and an MFA (Honors) from Cranbrook Art and Architecture Academy (Printmaking major/Digital Arts minor) Detroit, Michigan. She’s traveled, taught, and exhibited internationally and throughout the US. She worked with Potomac Museum Group paleontologists, with dinosaur digs and creating specialized exhibits. Gojmerac is the founding member of York Fresh Food Farms Community Gardens. She created Urban Arts Gardens in Baltimore and Detroit before creating a variety of Community-based Urban Gardens in York City, since 2007, primarily growing food, especially during Covid. This two-week residency will entail a working studio environment and temporary pop-up gallery focused on earth-based land art, with on-site fiber/papermaking using recycled found materials and organic material from the artist’s ongoing local garden projects in York. 

The space “allows me to focus on 3-D works, made with a hybrid of natural and recycled items.” Gojmerac says. “I have created my own S.C.R.A.P.P.Y. (Super Creative Recycled Art Projects Promoting York) vision. The entire PCA&D space will be an ongoing site dedicated to overlooked and undervalued materials, with a natural focus.” The large public-facing windows on South Duke Street will also serve to display Gojmerac’s artwork. 

The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design acknowledges that York has a thriving creative community with several organizations that offer meaningful support. One thing that is often lacking, even in well-supported arts communities, are spaces that allow creatives to experiment or workshop ideas. PCA&D York’s Work/Space is a creative pop-up program where artists and creatives apply to use the Duke Street space for an experimental action, event, or creative idea for two weeks.The PCA&D Work/Space program’s goal is to promote curiosity, prototyping, and exploration of new concepts within the York community