Artist Danielle Nelson Mourning’s objective is to imagine history as it once was and question how it has fixed within the present. Using a 4 x 5” still camera, Mourning re-animates her ancestry as both photographer and model, assuming the roles of her kin. Mourning writes: “While I step into the homes and vestments that once […]
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In this week’s episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the Trump University fraud settlement, Mike Pence’s reception at Hamilton, and the wild turkey’s distaste for the wild. Trump University Donald Trump’s lawyers reached a $25 million settlement in the lawsuits over Trump University. Natalia situated Trump U in the long history of for-profit colleges but also the history
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On September 4, 2016, I placed a call for the Unsung Heroes of Arts Administration, a sort of Bat signal in blog post form. In placing that call, I hoped it would be a simple and fun way to recognize some of those culture warriors in our field who seldom receive public recognition for their efforts,
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Michelle Hartney is a Chicago-based artist whose work addresses a broad range of topics, from women’s health issues, to the concept of heroes, love, and the cosmos. She works in a variety of materials, including fiber, wood, found objects, community based interactive performance, and the internet. Her interest in using art to address social issues began during her graduate studies
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Tra Bouscaren is a post-disciplinary artist, professor and independent researcher based in Watsonville, California. Incorporating neon, demolition rebar, lab equipment, trash cast in epoxy, monumental hand-carved styrofoam sculpture and other junk-object assemblage, Bouscaren programs interactive video-mapped environments which envelop material substrates into a video bath built out of multiple live surveillance feeds taken from within
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Joyce Hwang is creating in architecture. Joyce Hwang, AIA, NCARB, is the Director of Ants of the Prairie, an office of architectural practice and research that focuses on confronting contemporary ecological conditions through creative means, and an Associate Professor of Architecture at the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning. She is
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Sugar Vendil is creating in music and multidisciplinary performance. Sugar Vendil is a New York-based director and pianist lauded for “leading the unlikely intersection of classical music and new fashion” (New York Times). A first generation Filipino-American, Vendil grew up in El Sobrante, CA, a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Master of
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