Matthew Fluharty is founder and Executive Director of Art of the Rural, a national organization that advances rural culture and quality of life through knowledge building and rural–urban exchange. He is a member of M12 Studio, an award-winning interdisciplinary group of artists, researchers, and writers, and he serves on the board of directors of Common Field, a national effort that connects, supports, and advocates for the artist-centered field. Matthew is co-director of The American Bottom project. Colorfield, a book of poems, essays, and visual fieldwork in rural places, will be published in the US and Europe by Last Chance Press in late 2019. Matthew is co-curating The River, an exhibition opening at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in February 2020, and High Visibility: On Location in Rural America, opening at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, Nork Dakota, in November 2020.