by Jeffrey Songco | Feb 13, 2013 | Blog
Some time in the 1990’s, two children named Jeffrey and Renée were dancing ballet in separate productions of The Nutcracker. Jeffrey was performing in New Jersey, while Renée was performing in Florida. Years later, these two kids would grow up to be young...
by Abigail Satinsky | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog
Recently, while trolling the facebook site for Works Progress, an artist-led public design studion in Minneapolis, I came across a thread on Colin Kloecker’s page (who co-runs the studio with Shanai Matteson) compiling a list of must-reads on the subject of...
by Mary Jane Jacob | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog
Last month we closed a trio of social justice exhibitions at Sullivan Galleries—and Laurie Jo Reynolds closed Tamms, the state’s solitary confinement prison. Art did that. Artists made work, called others to do so to, and then brought in a population that usually...
by Gene Tanta | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog
 Our I First Our Looking: Interview with Performance Workshop participants at Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania The following interview is a performer-centered echo of a bunch of cool art students and Irina Botea (the organizer of the Dec 2012-Jan 2013 workshop) with...
by Shane McAdams | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog
On my first day of class in Wisconsin, I dropped a “Breakfast Club†reference that thudded like Judd Nelson’s career after “From the Hip.†And I immediately felt a compulsion to familiarize myself with contemporary popular culture. A man in my upper 30’s,...