From West to East
National Gallery of Art
documentary, digital series, 2022-2026
Created and produced by RAVA Films in partnership with the National Gallery of Art, From West to East travels across the nation, from Oregon to Puerto Rico, to meet contemporary artists where they live and work. Each film follows one artist and the community, landscape and history that shape their work, from a quilter in rural Mississippi to a land artist carving a mountain in New Mexico. Together, the nine films show how present art is across the country, woven into the lives of the people around it.
Marie Watt, artist and member of the Seneca Nation, takes us into the story of Turtle Island and its connection to her work, family, and Native American history.
Rick Lowe's art blends canvas and community in Houston, Texas’ Third Ward neighborhood.
Land artist Charles Ross approaches the completion of Star Axis, a work nearly fifty years in the making in the New Mexico desert.
In Water Valley, Mississippi, textile artist Coulter Fussell stitches donated fabrics and her kids’ digital images into a living record of the American South.
From his studio in Miami, Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrié retells the hidden histories of the Caribbean through a world of spirits.
On the remote coast of Jonesport, Maine, painter Anne Neely paints what lies beneath the surface of the landscape.
Philadelphia potter Roberto Lugo puts his neighborhood's heroes, and himself, on vessels once reserved for kings.
Puerto Rican artist and skater Chemi Rosado-Seijo turns metaphors into realities, from a skate bowl in La Perla to a solar-powered hillside community.
AEON | “Rick Lowe: Mapping the Unknown” featured
NEW RELEASE: Charles Ross: Where the Earth Meets the Sky
“From West to East: Between The Earth and the Sky”
NEW FILM Release: Charles Ross: Where the Earth Meets the Sky
AEON | Where the earth meets the sky