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...

It’s Time To Read Orwell Again

Nashville, TN James Robertson PKWY N/S @ Nissan Stadium, Facing East October – November 2018 I was invited to design a billboard for the For Freedoms project: www.forfreedoms.org After hearing about Rudi Giulani’s comment that “truth isn’t truth” I couldn’t...

A New Path to the Waterfall

Contemporary Art Gallery Lord Strathcona Elementary School Vancouver, BC 2017 -2018 Over the course of the 2017-18 school year A New Path to the Waterfall was a collaborative art project that situated a CAG satellite gallery space within MaryAnn Persoon’s...

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...