Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11, 2026, 2:00–4:00 PM
Hunterdon Art Museum is pleased to present Uncharted Territories, on view July 11 through September 6, 2026. Organized in collaboration with Steamroller Group, the exhibition centers on a limited-edition handbound artists’ book that brings together poetry, printmaking, and book arts in an exploration of navigation, discovery, and the search for direction in contemporary life.
Poetry Meets Print
The exhibition features 19 poems curated by Vasiliki Katsarou that explore the profound experiences of being lost, being found, and charting new paths. In response, contemporary printmakers created visual interpretations using a range of traditional printmaking techniques. The resulting broadsides were handbound by Steamroller Group and book artist Ulla Warchol into a limited-edition artists’ book, which will be displayed alongside the individual framed works.
Thematic Focus: Self-Navigation in the Digital Age
For millennia, maps helped humanity navigate and understand the physical world. Today, printed maps and traditional cartography have largely been replaced by navigation apps and disembodied voices directing our movements. In the process, the larger picture can become obscured.
Uncharted Territories poses timely questions:
• Can we find direction without a meaningful relationship to the ground beneath our feet?
• Have we relinquished the practice of self-navigation in an increasingly complex and interconnected world?
Through poetry, printmaking, and book arts, the exhibition explores how artists—and humanity more broadly—grapple with these questions.
River Union Stage serves as the fiscal and creative partner to Steamroller Group for this project.
About Steamroller Group
Steamroller Group is an artist collective based in the Delaware River Valley of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Through collaborative printmaking projects, the group fosters a supportive creative community dedicated to producing artwork that addresses the pressing issues of our time.
Steamroller Group members are Val Sivilli, Susan M. Mania, Kazaan Viveiros, Cay Maria Adams, and Bonnie A. Berkowitz. Poetry curator Vasiliki Katsarou and book artist Ulla Warchol collaborated with the collective in the creation of the artists’ book.
About River Union Stage
River Union Stage, located in Milford, New Jersey, is a professional theater company committed to engaging, enlightening, and entertaining audiences throughout the Delaware River Valley.
Media Contact
Donna Kessinger
Hunterdon Art Museum
For Steamroller Group media inquiries:
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