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9.5.18

I brought this topic up with my grad students last Spring. It seems obvious, but I think people can loose track of this for a variety of reasons—the idea of actually enjoying the work you do as an artist. Being an artist is an unorthodox thing to do in society in...

4.7.18

I’ve been negligent about writing for a year or two, these things happen. I’m going to try to get back into writing regularly again. Ok, so here is a topic—the potential positive relationship between studio art and artists and projects by artists doing social practice...

Warren Hatch: An Appreciation

In 1995 I came across a seed catalog (The 1995 Ethnobotanical Catalog of Seeds, by J.L Hudson, Seedsman). It had some amazing seed listings and articles (one in particular that I was really interested in challenged the concept of “native plants”) and also included a...

KSMoCA

Martin Luther King Jr. School 4906 NE 6th Ave.  Portland, OR 2014-ongoing KSMoCA (King School Museum of Contemporary Art) is a contemporary art museum within the walls of a functioning preK-8 public school in NE Portland, OR. It is a collaborative project with...

The Music That Makes Us

DisjectaPortland, OR March 13 – April 24, 2016 Exhibition organized with Emma Colburn, Roz Crews, Amanda Leigh Evans, Emily Fitzgerald, Lauren Moran, Anke Schüttler, Renee Sills, and Kimberly Sutherland With Zahra Ahmed, De La Salle North Catholic High School...