Artist Residencies:  Are They Worth It?  (Part 2 of 2)

Artist Residencies: Are They Worth It? (Part 2 of 2)

(Continued from last month) I’ve attended two residencies, one at Vermont Studio Center in August 2007, and one at LillStreet Art Center in Chicago in spring of 2008. The two programs were as different from each other as they could be, and provide some context...

Artist Residencies: Are They Worth It? (Part 1 of 2)

I’m sitting in my studio at the Vermont Studio Center, an artist residency program located in Johnson, Vermont. I’m at a desk strewn with small lengths of hardwood flooring, which I’m using as panels for a series of paintings I’m working on...
Turning the Titanic: Artists as Agents of Change

Turning the Titanic: Artists as Agents of Change

Well, last month’s column was a little dark. What can I say? I was in a bit of a mood. I do stand, mostly, by what I wrote then: I’m pretty sure we’re all fucked. It was pointed out to me, though, that it may only be awareness that is on the...

Everything is Fucked.

Everything is fucked. We’re all so busy burning the land and boiling the sea that the new Mad Max movie looks less like an escapist fantasy and more like a preview of what the world’s going to look like in a generation or two. The huge populations of the...

No FATE But What We Make: Thoughts on Foundations Education

For the past year and a half, I’ve been teaching Foundations at Northern Arizona University. Recently I was invited to present at a session at the FATE Conference “Tectonic Shifts” in Indianapolis. (The whole #boycottindiana thing didn’t start until our...