GREAT FALLS, MT.- Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art presents Christina Rothe: Awakening and the OneHeart Call Project_building community with the voices of our hearts through the arts an exhibition that is two years in the making and is making its debut here at The Square.

OneHeartCall Project highlights universally shared values of hope, love, and respect. Christina Rothe’s intent is to create unity through art. To achieve this, she invited diverse communities from Spokane, WA to partake in creative collaborations that included art making, oral histories, choral performances, music, and dance. The work presented is a result of her commitment to working with everyday people who represent socially and culturally diverse sectors of the Spokane area, including students, musicians, artists, refugees, the elderly or a mixture of all the above. The project grew into an artistic humanitarian project as her path unfolded and connected with the lives of different people.

Christina Rothe was raised in Lagos, Nigeria and born in Germany. She lives and works in Washington and is a multi-media artist. She is primarily known for her dramatic large-scale thread paintings, where she layers individual threads of various weights and colors one thread at a time onto a surface. In this exhibition Rothe combines technology with tradition to complete her project vision where layers of sound, community art works, video, and audio recordings are woven into a creative visual display.




The concept presented stems from her vested interest in the betterment of human relationships and the positive results of creating bonds through art despite individual differences. While the work is on exhibit at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Christina plans to engage the community in Great Falls through collaborative opportunities, as a means to link the collective efforts of the people in Spokane with the creative work of the people in this region.

Christina will establish a “call and response” component to her exhibition where visitors will be invited to create something in any artistic medium they choose and submit it to the museum so that it can be integrated by Christina into this exhibition and further presentations of the OneHeartCall Project.

All Spokane participants is the OneHeartCall Project are recognized by name and by group affiliation. Their work is presented alongside Christina’s own works which are in effect a response to the work created by the participants and influenced by the friendships she has made on this ever present journey to bring humanity together through the arts.

This exhibition is curated by Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Art at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art.