To contemplate the impact and ideologies behind fashion locally, the Avenir Museum in Fort Collins is well worth visiting. In the exhibit Where Is Every Body? Mannequins and Mounts—a nod to body types, the sense of absence created by social distancing, and the ubiquity of clothing on bodies across the globe—the history of the mannequin is tied into the history of art. A traveling exhibition titled Wandering Spirit: African Wax Prints charts the history of African wax print fabrics through their unlikely origin in Indonesia, to the textile mass production factories of the Netherlands, to where they have received commercial success in West Africa, the exhibition tells a story of global trade, colonization, and commerce through the medium of fashion and textiles.

The curators of the expansive exhibition Extraction: On the Edge of the Abyss have set the ambitious goal of manifesting a worldwide “ruckus” around confronting climate change, in particular extractive and exploitative processes. One aspect of this undertaking entails bringing their artistic movement to the state of Colorado via the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins. The movement was founded by writer Edwin Dobb and artists Sam Pelts and Peter Rutledge Koch, whose own personal history in Montana surrounded by the dominance of the Anaconda Copper Company provided the initial inspiration for the project as a whole.

As part of this movement, curators Erika Osborne and Lynn Boland are presenting six artists in an exhibit entitled Reclamation: Recovering Our Relationship with Place at the Allicar Museum alongside dozens of other curators, artists, writers, poets, and activists across the globe. The full extent of the collaboration is documented in the catalog and exhibition guide for Extraction featured on their website—

Excavationart.org—and printed on recycled newsprint.