Some thoughts on writing a manifesto

I was asked by Scott Robertson from Fifthsyllable to write a “manifesto” for a book of artist manifestos that they will be publishing. Here is what I came up with:   I recall thinking as a young art student that I would never personally experience an art movement...

Experiential Education

Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts 2017–19Jordan Schnitzer Museum of ArtUniversity of OregonEugene, OregonOctober 3, 2020 to January 10, 2021 Building Community: PSU Art + Design Faculty, Past + PresentJordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State...

Some Thoughts Collected

Since 2014 I’ve been (very periodically) writing small texts mostly related to the topic of Art and Social Practice and posting them on my website under the heading “Some Thoughts.” This PDF version puts them all together in chronological order for anyone who might...

7.9.19

Imagine finding some writings or drawings that you had done ten years earlier. At the time that you made them you had no thoughts about publishing or exhibiting the work, but now much later you see value in considering them differently, so you go about formalizing the...

1.26.19

As soon as I finished writing short descriptions for the first set of terms and topics related to social practice (see the previous post) I immediately started compiling a new list. So here are an additional twenty-two terms and topics with subjective definitions, I’m...