“Forget Me Not” examines the preservation of memories around love, self-exploration, and grief toward collective healing after living and cross-pollinating on the border town of Brownsville, Texas, in March 2024 as part of the Flower Shop's Artist in Residency. This exhibition is a token of keeping love and memories alive through photography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, textiles, and animation to explore ideas of remembrance, healing, placemaking, re-building, and nostalgia.  

In this exhibition each artist explores how personal history informs our lives, how we navigate the world, and the art we create. With a focus on representations of the body, Sam Rawls explores the impact of societal standards and family dynamics on self-worth while the exaggerated expression and gesture in Sarah Reagan’s carved busts collapse of binaries between high art and play, “perfection” and improvisation. Through cyanotypes, textiles, and photography, Cecilia Sierra and Cielo Zuñiga commemorate loved ones and growing up in international generational homes, engaging physically and emotionally in an act remembrance and resistance. Sue Montoya and Jesus Treviño explore ideas around protection, literal and spiritual, to explore ideas around constant processes and mending through meditative processes that speak to healing.  

Oak Cliff Cultural Center Hours of Operation 

The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is a division of the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture and is located at 223 W. Jefferson Blvd., Dallas, TX 75208 next to the historic Texas Theater. Operating hours are from Noon to 6 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday. For additional information please visit: occc.dallasculture.org.