Contents for February 12, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, at Franklin Furnace LOFT, online Feb. 14
- Coreen Simpson, FF Alumn, at Keith de Lellis Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 13
- Stephen Epstein, Naimah Hassan, FF Alumns, at Balance Art Center, Manhattan, Feb. 17
- Roger Shimomura, FF Alumn, at Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, Feb. 15-Mar. 30
- Micki Spiller, FF Alumn, at Bullet Space, Manhattan, opening Feb. 16 and more
- Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
- Ann P Meredith, FF Alumn, at Out of the Box Theatre, Manhattan, Mar. 7
- Cassils, FF Alumn, at Banff Center, Alberta, Canada, opening Feb. 15
- Kite, FF Alumn, receives inaugural Ruth Award
- Julie Harrison, FF Alumn, at UC Irvine, CA, thru Dec. 15 and more
- Ken Butler, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
- Deb Margolin, FF Alumn, at Theater Row, Manhattan, Feb. 20-Mar. 16
- Mitzi Humphrey, FF Alumn, at Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA, Mar. 20-23
- Candace Hill-Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Blank Forms, Brooklyn, thru May 2
- Tomislav Gotovac, FF Alumn, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, thru May 19
- Bradley Eros, Victoria Keddie, FF Alumns, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Feb. 12
- Ken Aptekar, FF Alumn, at University of Michigan Museum of Art, ANn Arbor, Feb. 13
- Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, receives Forced Migration & Refugee Studies Fellowship, Germany
- Laura Raicovich, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
- Suzanne Anker, FF Member, new publication
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Weekly Spotlight: Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, at Franklin Furnace LOFT, online Feb. 14
Spontaneous Combustion
Linda Sibio and Cracked Eggs in Performance
February 14, 2024
Franklin Furnace LOFT
Free – Online
Please RSVP for the event via Zoom:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcude6vqzIsHNzauV67eaC3N3RflUWUe0w3#/registration
“Spontaneous Combustion” was developed using structured improvisation. The main themes include, Guinea Pigs, Eyeballs, Renavia (the journey of a woman who is half-human and half-machine) who meets her doctor who is also the Pop Star singing about being Crazy for a Day (line: I spent most of my life under the setting sun, Searching for truth my journey has just begun/Cracked Eggs song: Cracked Eggs is a sign of hope, helping those in need. ) This is truly a crazy ride for the audience from Amazing Grace to the Vegetarian Wolf to the world cracked into pieces; bits of Austrich Eggs float in the air.
Themes and characters were developed by Erica Mosco and Jeff Pippin who both suffer from mental challenges. This piece demonstrates the high level of creativity from people who live outside of society. The music is by Shawn Mafia, Jeff Pippin, and Ray De La Rosa
They take themes in their lives filled with disability and joy. Both are now teaching a class developing a mental health coloring book called “See, See, See, More! Listen with your Eyes” where they collaborated with Claudia Bouche, Neil Doshin, Lesley Matamorous and Georgeann Dean who are contemporary artists funded by Creative Corps.
We must mention Harley Spiller and Martha Wilson from Franklin Furnace whose interest in “Cracked Eggs” since 2001 when Martha sat on the board of Bezerk Productions who sponsors this project. The company received a $1.5 million dollar grant in 2021 to work with people who have mental differences where Linda Sibio teaches movement, voice, and visual art. We are on Cohort 6 and it is getting more and more popular.
Erica Mosco is one example of someone who started with our Cracked Eggs workshops with the San Bernardino County/office of Innovation and made art a central point in her life. This is Bezerk Productions/Linda Sibio’s goal-to give courage and strength to those in need!
About the presenters:
Linda Sibio
Linda Sibio was awarded a Franklin Furnace Fund in 1992 to bring her performance work, “W.Va. Schizophrenic Blues,” to the Anchorage venue in New York City produced by Creative Time. Since then, she has incorporated issues around insanity as a major component to her artistic practice. In 1985, she taught performance classes for the Los Angeles Poverty Department where she first began collaborating alongside people with mental differences. This led her to write the book, “Reflections in a Broken Mirror,” and develop her philosophical stance called, “The Insanity Principle.” She has exhibited her fine art projects in Los Angeles, New York, The Netherlands, and with organizations such as Cooper Union School of Art, High Desert Test Sites, LAMP, Morongo Basin Mental Health, and Art Possibilities and Pathways. Her work is the subject of an upcoming solo exhibition at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles.
Erica Mosco
From the early age of 7, I discovered my passion for drawing, and throughout my life, art and my faith have been instrumental in helping me navigate the ups and downs. In my mid-50s, I had the privilege of joining an art class called Cracked Eggs, led by the talented Linda Sibio, who became my mentor. Under her guidance, I honed my artistic technique and expanded my creativity. Since then, I have successfully completed two full courses and now utilize art as a means to support individuals with mental illness, using my skills to make a positive impact in their lives.
Driven by a passion for helping others and art, my personal development was shaped by my diagnosis of Severe Social Anxiety Disorder. Through music and graphic art, I found solace and strength, enabling me to overcome the challenges of Social Anxiety and pursue a career in public speaking. Recognizing my aptitude for technology, I obtained credentials in Adult Education to empower and educate adults in technical skills. Now, I am dedicated to using my artistic talents, technological expertise, and personal experiences to positively impact lives through teaching, creating art, and advocating for mental health awareness.
Thank you.
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1. Coreen Simpson, FF Alumn, at Keith de Lellis Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 13
Master Class: 4 African-American Photojournalists will be open from Feb. 13-Mar. 29 at Keith de Lellis Gallery, 41 E. 57th St, Suite 703 NYC 10022
212-327-1482
Opening reception Feb. 13, 6-8 pm.
Ozier Muhammad, Eli Reed, Coreen Simpson, Beuford Smith.
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2. Stephen Epstein, Naimah Hassan, FF Alumns, at Balance Art Center, Manhattan, Feb. 17
Please visit this link:
https://epstein–hassan.ticketleap.com/a-case-for-sexual-reperations-and-rubbers/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Thank you.
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3. Roger Shimomura, FF Alumn, at Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, Feb. 15-Mar. 30
Please visit this link:
https://www.gregkucera.com/shimomura.htm
Thank you.
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4. Micki Spiller, FF Alumn, at Bullet Space, Manhattan, opening Feb. 16
ABC No Rio’s Better Red Than Dead show!
The opening reception will be held Friday, February 16th from 6-8 PM, at 292 Gallery/Bullet Space, East 3rd Street, New York, NY at 292 East 3rd Street, New York, NY between Avenue C and Avenue D. Bullet Space:
https://goo.gl/maps/x3z8NogMYWQafjQG7
And,
now online at SoundCloud.com
Please visit this link:
https://soundcloud.com/wpkn895/sets/live-culture-with-martha
Thank you.
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5. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
The Musical Force Behind the Communal, Queer ‘Bark of Millions’
Thank you.
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6. Ann P Meredith, FF Alumn, at Out of the Box Theatre, Manhattan, Mar. 7
Forgotten Angels – A Matter of Honor
Scripted Performance
Thursday March 7th 2024 7:00-9:00pm
Out of The Box Theatre
154 Christopher Street Suite #1E
New York, New York 10014
Cast – Aran Savory, Bev Kippenhan, Delanie Ayers, Eleanor Wenker, Jessica Spector, Lisa Kelly, Savannah Wang
Tech – Guneet K Singh
Produced by
Award-winning writer, director, producer Ann P Meredith & Swordfish Productions Pictures & Theatrical
Vietnam … the most unpopular and disliked war in the history of our country. Shockingly 11,000 Women from the U.S. served in this Most Hated War. 5 of these women – Lesbian Nurses from Walker, Arkansas have enlisted in the U.S. Air Force Nurses Corp and are in for a five-year challenge the likes of which they have never seen or experienced ever before.
Sponsored by Open Meadows Foundation and The Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwright Award
Tickets
https://ci.ovationtix.com/34781/production/1191397
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7. Cassils, FF Alumn, at Banff Center, Alberta, Canada, opening Feb. 15
Please visit these links:
Exhibition Page: https://www.banffcentre.ca/cassils-movement
Artist Talk: https://www.banffcentre.ca/events/artist-talk-cassils
Opening Reception: https://www.banffcentre.ca/events/opening-reception-cassils?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9OnFwNmUhAMV2QCtBh2hngS5EAAYASAAEgLf5vD_Bw
Thank you.
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8. Kite, FF Alumn, receives inaugural Ruth Award
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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9. Julie Harrison, FF Alumn, at UC Irvine, CA, thru Dec. 15 and more
January/February 2024: 2-month residency at Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, located in a small Norwegian village, Dale i Sunnfjord.
February 1 – December 15, 2024: 3 drawings included in “Viral Integration,” a group show at University of California Irvine. Inaugural group exhibition curated by elin o’Hara slavick, artist-in-residence, for the new Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences Hall and Sue & Bill Gross Nursing and Health Sciences Hall. “The exhibit includes more than 100 works by 40 artists from across the United States and Canada – with a central theme of addressing health issues, from the individual human body and disease, treatment and survival to environmental factors and medical systems. Artists address childbirth, AIDS, mental health, cancer, medicine, healthcare workers, surgery, community responses to collective experiences, the practice of care, endometriosis, migraines, coal ash ponds, and much more.” (UCI Public Health). Contact eoslavic@gmail.com for more information.
Nordic Artists’ Centre:
“Viral Integration”:
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10. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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11. Deb Margolin, FF Alumn, at Theater Row, Manhattan, Feb. 20-Mar. 16
My play This is Not a Time of Peace is opening on Theatre Row:
https://www.newlighttheaterproject.com/this-is-not-a-time-of-peace
Please! Tell your friends! Tell everyone! Show up your own good self!
love,
Deb
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12. Mitzi Humphrey, FF Alumn, at Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA, Mar. 20-23
FF Alumn Mitzi Humphrey in the past year had her art displayed at the Museum of History and Culture in Richmond, Virginia,. She also has participated in two group exhibitions in the Gallery at Natalie’s Restaurant and in juried and member shows at Artspace Gallery, of which she was an original founder. She now announces exciting new shows coming up at Artspace in its current Stratford Hills, Virginia Location.
Artspace Gallery Holds Two Exhibitions, in Conjunction with “Coalescence,” the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts 58th Annual Conference March 20 to 23, 2024
Stoke, an invitational exhibition curated by ceramicist John Jessiman, Resident Director Cub Creek Foundation, features ceramic works fired in wood-burning kilns
Tea, juried by Mitch Iburg and curated by John Jessiman, features clay forms related to service of tea, including tea pots, tea caddies, cups and more.
Exhibits open: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at Artspace and continue through April 20, 2024
Opening reception: Thursday, March 21, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Juror and curator talks take place on Thursday March 21, at 7 p.m.
All events are free and open to the public
Shuttle transportation to Artspace on Wednesday is available to conference goers
Stoke artists include: Rob Barnard, Randy Edmonson, Dan Finnegan, Chris Gustin, Mitch Iburg, John Jessiman, Randy Johnson, Jan McKeachie Johnston, Lindsey Oestterritter, Zoe Powell, Tim Rowan, Akira Satake, Jeff Shapiro, Hitomi Shibata, Takuro Shibata, Jack Troy, and Catherine White.
Jessiman notes, “The first known pottery was fired with wood and other organic materials. The Jomon potters some 14,000 years ago, it is assumed, dug pits, lined them with branches and twigs, stacked their ware, encrusted the pile with shards, started the fire and continued adding wood fuel as the internal heat began to increase. In my opinion these are some of the most beautiful and expressive works ever created and give us visual reference to the lives and beliefs of their people. Even though we may not have a clear understanding of the symbolic or ceremonial reference, they provide a glimpse into their culture and a curiosity regarding their beliefs… Today, with many more firing options, most potters firing with wood seek out a strong interaction from the firing process.”
Tea juror, Mitch Iburg is a ceramic artist working extensively with wild clay and mineral resources foraged in Minnesota. Through various approaches to testing, making, and firing, his studio practice embraces the overlapping languages of vessel making, sculpture, installation, and teaware.
Iburg says, “Tea sits at the heart of many of the world’s most important ceremonies and traditions. Through its cultivation, preparation, and consumption, Tea has not only shaped human civilization, but has created one of the world’s most diverse platforms for artistic expression and cultural exchange.
This exhibition highlights the widespread influence of Tea; its wares, rituals and aesthetics within the field of contemporary ceramics. From Chawan to Tea Pots, Gaiwan to Tea Caddies, many artists throughout the world use teaware as a tool for utilitarian and sculptural exploration. TEA aims to showcase a diverse array of these voices and their efforts to embrace tradition and push boundaries.”
For more information on these shows or to view images available for publication, visit Artspace’s website at: artspacegallery.org.
About Artspace: A nonprofit, artist-run organization of experienced professionals as well as emerging artists who work in a variety of mediums including clay, encaustic, interactive installations, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking and more.
Artspace Gallery Hours: 12-4 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday or by private appointment.
Address: 2833-A Hathaway Rd., Richmond, VA 23225. Stratford Hills Shopping Center.
Web links:
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Tea exhibition page:
https://www.artspacegallery.org/stoke-2024-invitational-exhibition
Stoke exhibition page:
https://www.artspacegallery.org/tea-2024-juried-exhibition
Taste of Richmond Wednesday Tour Shuttle:
https://www.aviontoursandtravel.com/nceca/p/taste-of-richmond
Cub Creek:
Artspace:
https://www.artspacegallery.org
2833-A Hathaway Road
Richmond, VA 23225
804-232-6464 (office)
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13. Candace Hill-Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Blank Forms, Brooklyn, thru May 2
Candace Hill-Montgomery: Pretty Birds Speak Sow Peculiar
February 8–May 2, 2024
Opening reception: Thursday, February 8, 6–8pm
Gallery hours: 12–6pm, Wednesday–Saturday
Press walkthrough: Thursday, February 8, 5–6pm (RSVP to tyler@blankforms.org)
Blank Forms
468 Grand Ave #3D
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Candace Hill-Montgomery (b. 1945) is a Queens-born artist now based in Bridgehampton, Long Island, whose decades-long career has spanned a wide array of media and approach: painting, photography, installation art, public interventions, video, poetry, performance, and fugitive combinations thereof. Over the last ten years, Hill-Montgomery has largely worked with weavings made on homemade looms, cunningly fusing an assemblage of techniques and materials including sheep’s wool, mohair, linen, paper yarn, and other fabrics, often augmented by found objects. The pieces are typically exquisitely layered in both composition and subject matter, bursting at the seams with color and movement, mirroring her iterative and free-associative poetry practice and variously drawing from pop-cultural and religious iconography, vernacular textile craft, art-historical and literary references, and delirious, free-wheeling wordplay.
“Pretty Birds Peer Speak Sow Peculiar,” the artist’s first show in the five boroughs since the 1980s, comprises a spread of weaves produced between 2016 and 2023 that demonstrate Hill-Montgomery’s wry sensibilities, variously invoking the entrepreneurial power couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, the producer and rapper formerly known as Kanye West, the Machiavellian fifteenth century monarch Richard III, and the surreptitious visit by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Afghanistan in 2019. Two new works for re-stretched canvas, appropriating materials from more than forty years ago, grace the entryway, and other woven textiles become shawls for a pair of antique ceramic birds.
The arc of Hill-Montgomery’s artistic career is as winding and manifold as her visual work. Raised in suburban east Queens, she grew up with the pre-fame Ronettes and babysat Count Basie’s daughter. From her late teens to early twenties, she did runway and print modeling for designers such as Jacques Tiffeau, Bill Blass, and Oscar de la Renta, before enrolling in the studio art program at Fordham University. In 1979, she was in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and presented an artwork interrogating public space, dually installed at Artists Space and a tenement on Frederick Douglass Boulevard. She soon intermingled with the bustling downtown arts scene of the ’80s, presenting a work responding to the FBI raid against Fred Hampton at Colab’s “The Times Square Show,” staging a performance at Franklin Furnace, exhibiting at the New Museum in a 1982 solo show, producing a number of artists’ books, and collaborating closely with figures such as Ntozake Shange, providing sets (“built-poems”) for theatrical performances, and Lucy R. Lippard, with whom she co-curated the 1983 exhibition “Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together,” at Gallery 1199, operated by a local of the Service Employees International Union representing hospital workers. For roughly three decades, Hill-Montgomery worked as a high school art and journalism educator. Since her retirement in 2011, she has lived full-time in Long Island.
Hill-Montgomery continues to produce artwork and poetry prolifically; her latest publications include the collection Muss Sill (Distance No Object, 2020) and Short Leash Kept On (Materials, 2022), a long poem inspired by detective fiction and the writing of Lloyd Addison and Russell Atkins.
Organized by Lawrence Kumpf and Tyler Maxin.
Blank Forms is a nonprofit organization supporting emerging and historically significant artists who produce work across disciplines, often rooted in traditions of experimental and creative music. We aim to establish new frameworks to preserve, nurture, and present these artists’ work and to build platforms for practices underrepresented in art’s commercial, institutional, and historical fields. Blank Forms collaborates with artists on commissions, exhibitions, publications as well as archival and estate projects within contemporary cultural ecosystems and in perpetuity. In presenting and documenting this work, Blank Forms seeks to foster an artistic community founded upon engaged and equitable conversations across continents, media, and generations.
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14. Tomislav Gotovac, FF Alumn, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, thru May 19
Tomislav Gotovac
Ascending Descending Genealogy
MSU, Zagreb, Croatia
February 09 – May 19, 2024
Artistic oeuvre of the multimedia artist Tomislav Gotovac (1937 – 2010) has been controversial throughout his lifetime. However, today his work is highly appreciated in artistic circles all over the world and his works are held at the most prestigious international collections. Furthermore, Gotovac was and remains a part of Zagreb urban and popular iconography, favoured by wide public due to his provocative art interventions and performances.
The exhibition at Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art is based on the concept designed by the French curator Pierre Bal-Blanc. The two levels of the exhibition space accommodate five conceptual parts interconnected by sequence of associations. In the interpretation of Pierre Bal-Blanc, the work of Tomislav Gotovac is presented by a sequence of photographs, movie projections and accessories and costumes that were parts of his performances. The whole of his work therefore revels why Tomislav Gotovac, known under his matronyme as Antonio G. Lauer, ended up becoming himself a quite unique and unequaled historical character.
Zagreb exhibition is mainly based on the exhibition of Tomislav Gotovac’s works held at the National Gallery of Arts in Tirana in 2021. Exhibited works presented “The Non-Canonical Gospel According to Tomislav Gotovac also known as Antonio G. Lauer”, suggesting that the beginning of the art of performance is being transferred from the second half of the 20th century to a different historical and temporal context. The exhibition setup and the presented works emphasize Gotovac’s practice of the Cinema by Other Means, elaborated by the artist during his performances and exhibitions.
The exhibition is mostly dedicated to projections of the movies made by Tomislav Gotovac, but along other movies by a number of Croatian and international authors whom the curator brings in relation with Gotovac’s experimental oeuvre. As a part of the programme, feature films projections will be held at the Gorgona Hall. Ancestors, descendants and contemporaries of the cinematographic work of Tomislav Gotovac are all included in that part of the programme, thus offering an insight into his influence, of which he might have been aware on unaware, on new generations of filmmakers or videographers at the international scene.
The majority of Gotovac’s works presented at this exhibition were borrowed from the collection of the artist’s daughter Sarah Gotovac, in cooperation with the Tomislav Gotovac Institute. In parallel, works from the Museum of Contemporary Art fundus will be exhibited as the MSU is in possession of a representative collection of the artist’s works from all the phases of his activity.
A printed publication comprising texts by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Vesna Meštrić and Darko Šimičić will accompany the exhibition.
Scored by Pierre Bal-Blanc and curated in conversation with Vesna Meštrić (Museum of Contemporary Art) and Darko Šimičić (Tomislav Gotovac Institute).
The exhibition is being held in partnership with the Croatian Film Association and the Tomislav Gotovac Institute, and with the support of the City of Zagreb, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation, Vienna, Erste Bank Croatia, and the Tourist Association of the City of Zagreb.
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15. Bradley Eros, Victoria Keddie, FF Alumns, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Feb. 12
Abasement #68
Monday, February 12
7pm
Free, no RSVP required
Performances by Victoria Keddie + Live Video with Scott Kiernan, The Same Names (Michael Schumacher, Michael Wiener, Cori Kresge, and Yuko Togami), Extatic Spasmatix (Eugene Hutz, Ashley Tobias, Brian Chase, Kay BonTempo, and Alap Momin), and Zoh Amba. DJ Tom Lax. Visuals by Vampyrates (Bradley Eros and Richard Sylvarnes).
Abasement is a monthly music series featuring four performances, a guest DJ, and a projectionist. Beginning in 2015 at Max Fish bar in New York’s Lower East Side, the evening brings together artists and bands working in free improvisation, jazz, noise, minimalism, and experimental composition. When Max Fish permanently closed due to Covid, one of the few experimental music venues in Manhattan temporarily ceased to exist. Artists Space is pleased to continue hosting Abasement.
For more information about this event please visit:
https://artistsspace.org/programs/abasement-68
Accessibility
Artists Space is fully accessible via a wheelchair lift and automated door in front of the entrance on 80 White Street. The cellar gallery can be accessed via the ground floor elevator. Artists Space welcomes assistance dogs, and has wheelchair accessible non-gender-segregated toilet facilities. If you have any further questions about access please email info@artistsspace.org.
Supporters
Artists Space Venue is generously supported by Stephen Cheng, Lonti Ebers, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Allan Schwartzman, and David Zwirner.
I Artists Space | 11 Cortlandt Alley., New York, NY 10013 |
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16. Ken Aptekar, FF Alumn, at University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Feb. 13
Next Tuesday morning I’ll be on my way to Ann Arbor, MIchigan, to give a Penny Stamps Series Lecture at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). I realize it’s not around the corner, but, hey, it’s free and open to the public! Details here:
All best, Ken
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17. Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, receives Forced Migration & Refugee Studies Fellowship, Germany
Exciting News! Thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a 3-month “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer” (FFVT) fellowship!
The FFVT program is a unique opportunity to dive deep into interdisciplinary research on forced migration and refugee issues in Germany. Honoured to be part of a project that bridges insights from migration, climate change, mental health, aesthetics, and human rights.
My contribution will focus on exploring the significance of beauty in the built environment for climate migrants, bringing a fresh perspective to the discourse. Additionally, I’ll be incorporating innovative research-creation methodologies to enrich our understanding of these critical issues.
Looking forward to immersing myself in this meaningful experience, collaborating with experts at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) at the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. Grateful for the chance to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in these critical fields.
Stay tuned for updates on my journey, learnings, and the impactful work we’ll be doing together!
#ForcedMigration
#RefugeeStudies
#KnowledgeTransfer
#ClimateChange
#InterdisciplinaryResearchCreation
#CHREN
#BeautyInTheBuiltEnvironment
#ExcitingTimesAhead
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18. Laura Raicovich, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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19. Suzanne Anker, FF Member, new publication
Suzanne Anker,
What color is your salmon?
Did you know farmed salmon is naturally grey in color since they do not eat the same substances as wild salmon (krill and shrimp). In order to meet consumers’ expectations, farmers dye salmon with a range of orange pigments — often by embedding the pigments in the salmons’ food.
Pigmentation is also related to profit: the darker the salmon, the higher the retail price.
“What Color Is Your Salmon” published by P.S. Hudson reports on transgenic salmon, animal cruelty, and fish farming’s propagation of misinformation: all of which contribute to an already toxic ecology. As the climate crisis forces us to innovate and rethink our relationship to nature, we must also refine our methods of aquaculture for the health of the planet and its inhabitants.
So, the next time you order salmon in a restaurant, ask where it’s from. Wild salmon, although under threat, is the healthier choice.
“What Color Is Your Salmon?” is now available at Printed Matter in Chelsea, as well as at
https://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/what-color-is-your-salmon/
Fact: The back cover includes a unique serigraph print using astaxanthin, the naturally occurring red pigmented ketocarotenoid that gives salmon-both wild and farm-raised-its distinctive color
Suzanne Anker
is a visual artist and theorist working at the nexus of art and the biological sciences. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Beijing Art and Technology Biennale, the Daejeon Biennale 2018, Korea, The Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe | ZKM, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Phillips Collection, P.S.1
Museum, the JP Getty Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. She is the Chair of the Fine Arts Department of School of Visual Arts in New York, where she continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s Bio Art Laboratory.
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