Diagrams of Memory: Interwoven Ontology

Schoolhouse: 1954, 2025; Paper - 1954 map of Metro Detroit, ephemera, acrylic medium; 18h x 23w inches

Schoolhouse: 1954, 2025

Medium: Paper - 1954 map of Metro Detroit, ephemera, acrylic medium; 18h x 23w inches
Artist: Camille Ann Brewer, MFA, MLIS

Exhibition Dates:   September 25 – December 11, 2026  
Location: Rotunda Gallery, Building 18, NCRC
Artist: Camille Ann Brewer, MFA, MLIS
Artist Reception:   5-7 pm Friday, September 25, 2026

Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit, Michigan.  Through the process of textile construction, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work. 

The artwork is built with time-period paper maps that illustrate spatial geography and political territory, along with paper-collaged images of people, places and things that tie directly to the history and human relationships in space.  In patterns that support the artwork’s theme, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience. 

 

Up-North South, 2023; Paper - Maps of Birmingham, Alabama and Flint, Michigan, acrylic medium; 32.75h x 25.5w inches

Up-North South, 2023
Paper - Maps of Birmingham, Alabama and Flint, Michigan
Acrylic medium
32.75h x 25.5w inches

Missed, 2023; Paper - 1948 map of central Washington, DC, ephemera, acrylic medium; 24h x 27.25w inches

Missed, 2023
Paper - 1948 map of central Washington, DC
Ephemera, acrylic medium
24h x 27.25w inches