Mapping Perspectives, a juried show at Throughline Collective.

Written By Tya Alisa Anthony

Curated by Samantha Johnson

We are pleased to announce the selected artists who will participate in our juried exhibition, 'Mapping Perspectives,' by Samantha Johnston in collaboration with @FotoFest Houston.The group exhibition will feature works from 23 lens-based artists residing in the US.

Their work explores power structures, inequalities, and dominant ideologies within and across marked boundaries. The photographs included in the show capture how culture, society, economics, politics, and religion give shape and outline to our lived environments.

Artists:

Tya Anthony @tyaanthony
Barron Bixler @barronbixler
Christa Blackwood @artcandyfilm
Leah Dyjak @leahdyjak
Jesse Egner @JesseEgner
Farima Fooladi @farimafooladi
Dana Fritz @danafritzphoto
Gabriela Gamboa @gabagambo
Edward Gia @edward.gia
Vidya Giri @vidgiri
Megan Jacobs @meganjacobsart
Sam Jentsch @sam.jentsch
Bree Lamb / Muscle Memory Collective @muscle_memory_collective
Morgan Levy @morganrlevy
Diane Meyer @dianemeyerstudio
Nancy Newberry @nancynewberry
Caroline Philippone @cphilippone_studio
Vann Powell @vann_t_powell
Jared Ragland @jaredragland
Laurie Smith @laurie.smith.photo
Chang-Ching Su @asas.12348
Kathleen Tunnell Handel @kathleen_tunnellhandel
Johanna Warwick @johannawarwick

Juror: Samantha Johnston @johnston_se

Show: March 8th-30th

Opening Reception: March 8th, 6-9pm
Juror’s Reception: March 15th, 6-9pm

#throughlinecollective #MappingPerspectives #SamanthaJohnston #FotoFest #opencall #fotofestbiennial #criticalgeography

Tya Alisa Anthony

Tya Alisa Anthony is an American artist, photographer, writer, and independent curator whose work explores memory, mythology, ancestry, and the quiet ways people leave themselves behind in the objects they touch. For more than twenty years, her practice has existed at the intersection of visual research, education, and cultural storytelling, investigating resilience through the body, the landscape, historical archives, and the natural world.

Working across photography, collage, cyanotype, botanical collections, handmade books, and mixed media, Anthony approaches each body of work as an evolving archive rather than a finished statement. She is drawn to weathered photographs, heirlooms, medicinal plants, folklore, ritual objects, forgotten architecture, and the symbolic language that connects cultures across time. Her work asks how identity is preserved, transformed, and remembered.

Alongside her studio practice, Anthony has spent more than two decades building educational programs, exhibitions, and community-centered initiatives that expand access to the arts. Her leadership has helped shape institutions, mentor emerging artists, develop sustainable systems, and create spaces where creativity becomes a lifelong practice rather than a privilege.

Anthony’s artwork is included in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s Octopus Collection. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is held in numerous private collections.

She is currently creating Organic Tarot, a 78-card hand-collaged tarot deck and accompanying memoir that intertwines mythology, autobiography, botanical symbolism, and the archetypal journey of transformation. The project reflects the central thread running throughout her career: that art is not simply something we make—it is a way of understanding ourselves, preserving what matters, and leaving a map for those who come after us.

http://www.tyaanthony.com
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