“I want to take good care of my relatives, my more-than-human relatives, because they take such good care of me. Who would I be if not for the land and the soil and the sky and the air and the plants and the animals and rocks? Who would any of us be?”
Read MoreOn July 13th, Rosela del Bosque, Daril Fortis, Allegra Hangen, and Enero y Abril sat down to take a closer look at the increasingly important role borders play in decolonial discourse as fluid spaces where knowledge is produced, embodied, and circulated.
Read More“In many ways, flowers are my activism. Their intersection with justice, equity, economics, and environmentalism has helped me understand their interconnectedness. For that, I am grateful to them.”
Read More“At the end of May, members of the Alternate Currents Working Group met with the Naturalist School at Waubonsie State Park to listen to bird song, walk the hills and ravines, and discuss ideas about place and space.”
Read More“What is belonging? Some say it’s your home, the physical home where you find comfort. Others say it’s where you’re needed. Both are true, but in my experience, it’s something else.”
Read MoreOn May 9th, Karin Campbell, Inkpa Mani, Moko Fukuyama, and Nathaniel Ruleaux met on Zoom to discuss the porous connections between monuments, memory, and place and how misrepresentations of our collective histories in public spaces shape cultural norms and values.
Read More“The current state of things can have the burdensome effect of making ‘LANDBACK wins’ feel far off for most. But in fighting this fight together, Indigenous communities find allies, which strengthens the people, the causes, and the hope for a better world.”
Read MoreOn March 2nd, Dr. Kate Beane, Andrea Carlson, Lydia Chesewalla, and Marisa Cummings came together to discuss how cultural institutions that espouse a progressive politics of inclusion can work with Native communities to repair the histories of violence and dispossession foundational to their formation.
Read More“When it comes to the museum going into neighborhoods or communities, they really have to think about the characteristics of the community and what that community is actually about.”
Read More“La Berge offers a comparative look at the aesthetics of socially engaged art, covering an impressive array of artists that both incorporate and represent a general condition of living beyond the wage.”
Read MoreOn August 19th, Natalie Bell, Mary Lawson, and Jared Ledesma sat down with Jared Packard for a virtual discussion about inclusive curatorial practices that center making projects, performances, and exhibitions with community instead of about.
Read More“I want you to come in, and learn, and share, and do what you can. Ultimately, we're trying to save our culture. We're trying to save our language. You can't let something as trivial as money get in the way of that.”
Read More“I think that it can be really hard to work with any type of structure that is rooted in capitalism on anything that is inherently non-dominant culture driven belief systems, on anything that is based in gift ecology, on anything that asks for collective ownership.”
Read MoreDuring a virtual conversation on May 27th, panelists Rebecca Carew, Alex O’Hanlon, and Caitlin Osborn sat down with moderator Lillian Snortland for a virtual discussion to reimagine how philanthropy in the arts might match calls for solidarity with meaningful reform.
Read More“So, to have support from the community without having to do the whole nonprofit thing, it just felt right. I felt a sense of urgency and and the only way to do it was just to do it, just to catapult into it. That was an innate reasoning, and it wasn't really a choice, it just happened.”
Read MoreDuring a virtual conversation on March 24th, panelists glyneisha, Jonathan González, and Lillian Snortland sat down together to reimagine relationships between artists and institutions by considering artist-initiated projects that aim to shift institutional paradigms of racial equity, fair pay, and institutional transparency.
Read More“What does it mean to push against soulless, lofty spaces that prop up the notion of individual exceptionalism…? What does it mean to exchange that notion of institutional success for new definitions of how we collectively value making meaning together?”
Read More“The conceit of western white supremacist colonial capitalism to say that 200 years in place is a long time, and to denote an authority over place, is hilarious to think about.”
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