Intern Architect Charlotte McKernan examines the stories of our town’s cluttered roofline in her presentation Modernology.

In How Did That Become A Thing?, artist Ramona Sakiestewa muses at how an object is elevated to a fashionable trend and how they have come to influence her work.

After decades of photographing the vernacular roadside landscapes across America, Steve Fitch shares his insights on what we can learn about a culture from these remnants.

In Artifacts: Critical Information for Archeologists, archaeobotanist Mollie Toll reveals the inventiveness, technical and artistic skills in ancient artifacts.

Designer Christine Sullivan showcases her latest body of work that gave an ironic twist to a common craft material in her presentation Felt Words.

In Absence, Augmentation and Replication, designer Lila Pickus explores adaptive reuse architecture as curatorial practice, questioning the role of materiality and authenticity of artifacts in exhibiting place-based stories.

Join us for our last 2021 PechaKucha at the CCA for VOL. 12 ARTIFACTS, as our presenter line-up muses on the meanings and roles of artifacts. When does something become an object of discovery? What are the qualities that make a material have substantive value? Is an artifact solely the evidence of existence or does it solicit us to reconsider history?