This month, Southern Heat Exchange is delighted to welcome Rosalie Smith as our newest digital Artist-in-Residence! Smith (@rosalieglsmith) is a New Orleans based interdisciplinary artist who uses poetry, organic materials, and alternative archival documentation in her installations and 2-dimensional work. Her work pertains to grief, impermanence, and attachment.

Smith graduated from Smith College in 2015 with a BA in Studio Art and Landscape Studies. She is a founder of @luckyartfair, an art fair and collective that experiments with co-ownership amongst artists and administrators as well as socialist financial and curatorial models. She is a member of @thefrontnola and has shown her work @cacnola, @barristersgallery, @antenna.works, and @aquariumgallery, among others.

This month we will be following Smith as she prepares her installation "My Mother's Last Garden" for its inclusion in "Make America What America Must Become" @cacnola and her upcoming November show @thefrontnola. Check in with us here each Friday in September for updates on her progress!