CRUST BUCKET COLLECTIVE (2019- )
Crust Bucket Collective, the artist team of myself (Juliette Walker) and Maryalice Carroll, celebrates the crusty aesthetics of the everyday through publications, exhibitions, happenings, and events. We are artists curating artists, and believe that everyone is an artist and everywhere is a gallery. We are interested in the spaces overlooked and the spaces in-between. Since our start in the fall of 2019, we have published a couple zines, curated and coordinated multiple exhibitions (including one in a car that went on an epic road trip), and continue to work on creating platforms for other artists and creatives. Our Instagram account is currently our informal living archive of projects and events.
Collaborators, co-conspirators and Crust Bucket Collective members: Maryalice Carroll (left) and myself, Juliette Walker (right).
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Crust Bucket Collective had been planning to start an in-person breakfast club gathering in Fayetteville to share ideas and artwork, but due to social distancing, we began hosting a virtual breakfast club via zoom open to anyone from anywhere. Without much of an agenda, the club meetings became time and space for folks to virtually gather over their coffee and cereal.
In November 2019, Crust Bucket Collective discovered a broken True Refrigeration unit behind our studio building. Being interested in overlooked spaces and the idea that a gallery could exist anywhere, we curated an exhibition of ten artists’ work into a pop-up exhibition in this refrigerator. True Things brought together sculptural works of ten graduate students in the University of Arkansas MFA program and embraced the possibility and novelty of creating our own gallery infrastructure. Works by Eric Andre, Liz Alspach, and Joanna Pike (top to bottom) in right image.