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Honeybee Collectives MFA Thesis Exhibition, 2015

Honeybee Collectives, video documentation 7 minutes, 2015. Cinematography  by Stacy Calvert and Hassan Pitts, edited by Honna Veerkamp.
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My thesis paper contextualizes interweaves details about the exhibition with facts about honeybee biology, behavior, and folklore and reflections about my personal background with anti-hierarchical feminist organizing and collaboration. \
Honeybee Collectives MFA Thesis Paper by Honna Veerkamp
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Honeybee Collectives MFA Thesis Exhibition ProgramView Honeybee Collectives MFA Thesis Program, which includes additional context and artist Statement.

Honeybee Collectives was a site-specific multimedia installation about honeybees and communities that included  sculpture, food, interactive performance, and documentation of my first year as a beekeeper. This was the culmination of a year-long creative investigation about honeybees, human community-building, and socially engaged art and my media arts MFA  thesis at Southern Illinois University. The exhibition was presented at the Hughes Gallery in Murphysboro, IL on March 21st, 2015. So many people helped make this project happen in all kinds of ways including advice, work parties, donations of food and space, setting up and cleaning up, publicity, moral support, coming to the  event and much more. This happened because of these contributions. Thank you!
Please view the program below for the artist statement and additional info about the artwork.
Scroll down for photos and video.

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Photos of the exhibition by Andrea McMurray, 2015

Mud Farm Bees, video, 10 minutes, 2015:  Documentation of my first year keeping bees. Cinematography and editing by Honna Veerkamp with additional photos by Alexa Nutile and Sarah Mitchell.

Mud Farm Bees, photos Honna Veerkamp, 2014
More about Mud Farm Bees here.  More about bees and art here.

Press: Honna Veerkamp’s Honeybee Collectives Exhibit: The Honey Side of the Street, K. Brattin,
Carbondale Nightlife Entertainment Guide, March 17th, 2015

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