LISTEN
Critical dialogues & exhibitions under the direction of Nicole Seisler
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Reclaiming history & contributions of African Americans in the mountain south
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Rigorous, comprehensive resource on contemporary art in the south
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Living Myth Podcast
Deep sessions on current events & the unconscious
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Intimate conversations with contemporary black artists
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READ
Art in California
by Jenni Sorkin
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Funny Weather:
Art in an Emergency
by Olivia Laing
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How to be Both
by Ali Smith
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pegdagogy, Performativity
by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire
by Jack Halberstam
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The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York
by Christina Weyl
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SEE
Mic drop at MASS MOCA. Ceramics in the Expanded Field opens October 15, 2022.
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We've been in hell. Who wouldn't want to visit Paradise? MyungJin Kim offers it up.
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Shameless Weekend at Fields Project in NYC revels in the body & erotics. We're there.
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Roger Herman at Sorry We Are Closed is sensual exuberance. Like coming out of quarantine into carnival.
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Shinichi Sawada's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Venus Over Manhattan, is an extraordinary encounter.
The Archive Year 1
Resources|Reflections|Images
Celebrating The First Township10
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Kyle Lawson (2020)
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Jeffry Mitchell (2020)
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Sarah Conti (2020)
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Rubens Ghenov (2020)
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Melanie Tafejian (2020)
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Jody Isaacson (2020)
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Carson Culp (2021)
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Donté Hayes (2021)
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Iván Carmona (2021)
Books to shake
you up
We asked (on Instagram):
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What books have been central to your development as an artist?
What shook you up or opened new avenues for thinking?
If you disappeared for a year to make work, what books would you bring?
Harold and the Purple Crayon
by Crocket Johnson
@cccsulb
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For the Time Being
by Annie Dillard
@heatherwatkinsstudio
About This Life
by Barry Lopez
@heatherwatkinsstudio
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The Unknown Craftsman
by Soetsu Yanagi
@horacio_casillas
Centering
by M.C. Richards
@kerstingrenceramics
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The Thinking Hand
by Juhani Pallasmaa
@gintykal
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
@robin_treier
Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles and
Ted Orland
@mariewakerobin
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The Medium is the Message
by Marshall McLuhan
@robin_treier
Walking on Water
by Madeleine L'Engle
@caprice_mcneill_artist
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Pottery, People and Time
by Alan Caigar-Smith
@markmudman
The Violin Maker
by John Marchese
@markmudman
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The Secret Knowledge of Water
by Craig Childs
​@markmudman
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
@markmudman
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Making Room for Making Art
by Sally Warner
@mariewakerobin
by Claire Illian
@merryfarmpottery
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Making : Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture
by Tim Ingold
@marjoriedial
The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
by John Daido Loori
@merryfarmpottery
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A Dreary Story
by Anton Chekhov
@marjoriedial
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