In addition to an ongoing solo exhibition at the Society for Photographic Education, Texas-based photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley is one of 19 artists selected for LAND Studios' InterUrban collaboration with the RTA and the City of Cleveland. After spending a week photographing more than 150 Clevelanders with a process dating back to the 19th century, Anderson-Staley selected 50 to be enlarged and installed inside the RTA Red Line tunnel at the airport. Just in time for the influx of RNC delegates, guests, activists and press, the intense portraits will greet visitors heading into town.

Although Anderson-Staley's exhibition at the Society for Photographic Education gallery, entitled [Hyphen] Americans, was planned before Fred Bidwell selected her to participate in the InterUrban project, the show unexpectedly acts as a preview of the upcoming public installation. It showcases more than 130 wet plate collodion tintype portraits captured by Anderson-Staley throughout the U.S. for more than a decade, many of which have never been exhibited before. Rather than prints, the show features the original plates from the 19th century process.

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