RECLAMATION
RECLAIMING EXPERIENCES IS DIRECTLY LINKED TO OWNING OUR POWER AND LETTING OUR LIGHT SHINE. RECLAMATION PRESENTS THE ARTIST COLLABORATION OF MORGAN BUKOVEC AND KATE SWEENEY, EVOLVING MORGAN’S “ARE YOU ON THE MENU” CROSS-STITCHED WORKS INTO SELF PORTRAITS. THIS SERIES IS THE RESULT OF MORGAN’S PAST DECADE OF WORK IN THE SERVICE INDUSTRY. EACH REMARK, COMMAND, AND QUESTION ARE QUOTES TAKEN FROM HER EXPERIENCE AS A SERVER, WITH MALE CUSTOMERS.
MORGAN STATES, “THIS SERIES IS A PERSONAL RELEASE AND A WAY TO GAIN OWNERSHIP OVER THE WORDS SAID TO ME BY MEN. IT BREATHES WITH INTENTION AND HAS BEEN MY PERSONAL RECLAMATION.”
NOT ONLY DOES THIS WORK SHED LIGHT ON THE NORMALIZATION OF HARASSMENT IN THE SERVICE INDUSTRY, BUT IT GIVES SPACE FOR VIEWERS TO QUESTION AND REFLECT ON THE POWER OF 'WORDS AND THEIR OWN PERSONAL RECLAMATION.
“INSPIRED TO EVOLVE THE CROSS-STITCHED WORKS INTO SOMETHING PHYSICALLY VULNERABLE AND PERSONALLY POWERFUL, I CAME ACROSS KATE SWEENEY’S PHOTOGRAPHY WORK AND KNEW THIS COLLABORATION WAS DEEPLY ALIGNED. WORKING WITH KATE WAS A HEALING AND JOYFUL EXPERIENCE AND I AM GRATEFUL FOR HER SUPPORT IN MIRRORING TO ME MY OWN POWER.”














RECLAMATION in the COMMUNITY
THIS 3 DAY EVENT IS PRACTICING RECLAMATION THROUGH HIGHLY INTENTIONAL COLLABORATIONS AND COMMUNITY AT ITS CORE. THROUGH ART, POETRY, PORTRAITS, WORKSHOPS, MUSIC, WE ARE COLLECTIVELY TAKING OWNERSHIP OVER OUR LIVED EXPERIENCES. RECLAIMING EVEN THE PHYSICAL SPACE ... RATHER THAN A TRADITIONAL WHITE WALLED GALLERY, MORGAN CHOSE TO HOST THIS EVENT AT MISSION COFFEE, A BELOVED, LOCAL AND HIGHLY INTENTIONAL CAFE.
“MISSION’S FOCUS ON PERSONAL CONNECTIONS, SUPPORTING WOMEN FARMERS, AND UPLIFTING THE COMMUNITIES THEY SOURCE FROM, INSPIRED ME SINCE DAY 1 OF JOINING THE MISSION TEAM.”
THIS EVENT, AT EVERY LEVEL, IS BREAKING THE NORMS
WHICH IS WHAT WE NEED ~ AS ARTISTS, CREATIVES,
HUMANS ~ NOW, MORE THAN EVER.
RECLAMATION WAS SUPPORTED BY THE GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL













































RECLAMATION ART OPENING + OPEN MIC
COLLABORATORS:
MORGAN BUKOVEC
KATE SWEENEY
CYNTHIA AMOAH
ARTISTIC GENIUS
LA ROSA
MEGHAN LEIGH PHOTOGRAPHY
MISSION COFFEE
RECLAMATION COLLAGE WORKSHOP
COLLABORATORS:
COLUMBUS COLLAGE COLLECTIVE
LAVA LAMP LOUNGE
DJ LACHEWLA
WHITNEY BREWER PHOTOGRAPHY
MISSION COFFEE
RECLAMATION POETRY WORKSHOP
COLLABORATORS:
CYNTHIA AMOAH
EMMA LOW PHOTO
MISSION COFFEE