Jennifer Maravillas-Bell

Postcard from Collected Perspectives: Cartography, Belonging, Place and Indentity by Jennifer Maravillas-Bell and ArtLab Interns.

PlatteForum is excited to announce their fall resident artists. Jennifer Maravillas-Bell is in residence through November 3, 2022, with her exhibition opening on November 4, 2022 at the PlatteForum Annex Gallery.

Maravillas-Bell is currently working with PlatteForum’s ArtLab Interns on the upcoming exhibition, Collected Perspectives: Cartography, Belonging, Place and Identity, which explores map-making, through a social justice lens. Maravillas-Bell says: “Examining and understanding the tools of the powerful is key to creating an equitable world. Just one of the tools of the powerful, cartography, illuminates practices such as redlining and gerrymandering.” Maravillas-Bell has been creating a map of the area around PlatteForum’s Annex Gallery. She has been walking the streets surrounding, collecting debri from the street, and then impressing those found objects into concrete in the shape of each block. The result will be a large concrete map with found objects impressed into each block creating a beautiful mosaic of the inhabitants of this area. PlatteForum’s Artlab interns are creating a range of maps depicting their homes and neighborhoods; an audio map that tells a story of a place important to their identities; and a collective work connecting maps of causes and histories they’ve researched and examined. Jennifer Maravillas-Bell is a multi-media artist from Brooklyn, New York who is now based in Denver. She utilizes collage, acrylic paint, and found objects to create portraits of cities and places which tell stories of our collective pasts. PlatteForum’s Annex Gallery will host the opening on Nov. 4th from 6-8 pm. 

PlatteForum Annex Gallery: 3575 Ringsby Ct. Denver, CO 80216
Exhibition Opening: Friday Nov. 4th, 2022 6-8 pm

Exhibition dates: Nov. 4th - Nov. 26th, 2022