Just for fun, I wanted to share this feedback I received after giving a talk to some elementary students recently. The talk focused mostly on my social practice projects, and it was fun to see what stuck with them after the fact 🙂

This year at the SECAC Conference 2020, I’m excited to be presenting on 2 different panels. You can check out the full conference program PDF too.

The first one is “Self-Publishing as Social Practice,” on Friday, December 4 at 4:00pm EST/3:00pm CST and is described as:

As social practice becomes more widely accepted and integrated into higher education, various sub-topics have become more visible, including self-publishing. From zines, newspapers, and field guides, to books, manifestos, and maps, self-publishing as a form of social practice has spread into wide-ranging art and design courses due to its low cost and accessibility, for both makers and readers. This panel seeks submissions that address wide-ranging manifestations of self-publishing as social practice from artists, designers, and art historians. For the purposes of this panel, we will categorize social practice as social engagement and collaboration with individuals, communities, and institutions as a form of participatory art. Topics of investigation could include, but are not limited to, integrating technology, looking at the past, present, and future of these practices; examining existing or proposed courses focused on this subject; and sharing particularly effective assignments related to this area of study.

The panelists are:

• Sarah Sharp, “The Tool Book Project”
• Teresa Audet, “Self-Publishing for Craft Education”⁠
• Alanna Stapleton⁠, “How-to Zines: Sharing Everyday Knowledge and Building Community”
• Trina Fernandez, “Keeping Us Conformed: A Brief History of the Punk Zine”

 

The second panel is “Demystifying the MFA Application Process,” on Thursday, December 10, 1:00pm EST/ Noon CST with Paul Catanese and Noelle Mason, and is described as:

This workshop is designed to provide guidance on key aspects of the MFA application process that are often shrouded in mystery. We’ll address how to research and evaluate MFA programs in light of your career goals; how to prepare a portfolio that speaks to your strengths; key questions your application essay should be answering; as well as understanding the who / when / how of asking for recommendation letters. The workshop will be conversational, with ample time reserved to address your questions and concerns. This session will be facilitated by Paul Catanese, Director of Graduate Studies for Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago, Noelle Mason, MFA Program Coordinator at the University of South Florida School of the Arts, and Ellen Mueller, Director of the MFA Program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

SECAC is offering free registration to graduate and undergraduate students for the online conference this year (Nov 30-Dec 11). Undergrads need a faculty member to email on their behalf; grads can email directly — secac2020@vcu.edu

My work Resist in Place will be included in a 4-day festival of experimental film & video called, ADJUSTING the LENS: FEST! presented by Unrequited Leisure. The festival includes online live programming along with a presentation of the full program running on loop in the physical gallery space.

The FEST! begins Thursday, December 3, at 6PM CT. Gallery Hours for Adjusting the Lens: FEST! include:

• Friday December 4, 2020 — 11am – 6pm
• Saturday December 5, 2020 — 11am – 6pm
• Sunday December 6, 2020 — 1pm – 6pm

Unrequited Leisure is an artist-run space in Nashville, Tennessee that focuses on emerging and mid-career artists that explore screen-based approaches to critical and topical investigations. Exhibitions in the gallery are programmed and organized by its members, Chalet Comellas Baker and Clinton Sleeper and the artists presented are selected through a thematic curatorial framework.

I am delighted to be showing several series of my video works at Poole Art Gallery on the University of Montevallo campus. The exhibition, On Repeat, will feature Resist in Place, What it Takes, Chief Resource Management Officer, Monotonize, and Collecting Rectangles.

Poole Art Gallery
University of Montevallo
October 20 – December 4, 2020

 

My recent video work, “Resist in Place,” will be screened by Davidson College Galleries in the E. Craig Wall, Jr. Academic Center on the video wall from 10am-11:30am & 4:00pm-5:30pm through November 21, 2020 along with three other artworks by Lisa Dahl, Kevin Frech, and David Sanchez Burr, all exploring capitalism and its effects.

I also did an interview with Paul Stouffer ’21, a Davidson College student, which you can read here. You can also watch a video of our conversation here: