In the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 111
I’m crowdsourcing these skills from local weavers and the older women in my family—my grandmothers and aunts—who are now scattered all over the world. They’re sharing stories of various such beds they’d woven or inherited and sending videos and patterns over WhatsApp.
Read MoreCurator’s Corner
By Visual Art Issue 110
Lasting images go beyond the simple act of documenting a moment by demanding a response from the viewer. The viewer reacts at a much deeper level, like we do to smell, but with the eyes.
Read MoreRelational Cartography: Photographing the Landscape of Redlining
By Visual Art Issue 110
We get the crap… If you get white people over here, then they’ll start making the produce look worthy… It shouldn’t be like that. This is our city… We care just as much about our kids, just as much as the white people out there in Williamsville, Amherst, and other surrounding areas… Why can’t our kids see the same things?
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 110
I cut a hole in the ice each winter, an extraordinary black trapezoid—“avanto” in Finnish—intended for the bracing plunge to follow the extreme heat of the Finnish sauna. The shape carries so much personal meaning.
Read MoreThe Day of Big Trouble
By Fiction Visual Art Issue 110
How a thing looked was important. Not just Is it useful, but Is it nice to look at. Trees made fruit, and fruit is useful, he’d said to Zeke. But before fruit comes flowers, and there’s not a thing to be done with them but look.
Read MoreThe Theory of Longing: Two Works at the A.J. Heschel School
By Visual Art Issue 109
I came to see the ark in this space as a kind of well at the heart of an imaginary landscape, the symbolic source of life. This metaphoric landscape is a constant reminder of the longing for the physical Holy Land.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 109
An artist’s role is to awaken all senses so that we are truly alive and active… Physical connection, especially in the performing arts, is essential for creation.
Read MoreStranger Fruit: American Pietàs
By Visual Art Issue 109
Jon Henry photographs Black mothers and sons across America.
Read MoreCurator’s Corner
By Visual Art Issue 108
Meaning does not only happen when we make it. We make meaning out of a world that is already meaningful.
Read MoreWill We Feel Nostalgia for 2020?
By Visual Art Issue 108
At present, we are standing inside of the pandemic, and so its bitterness defines first and foremost how we feel about it.
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