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Format: Essays

Art storage, with many framed 2D pieces hung in dense racks, with chair, ladder, concrete floor, and fluorescent lighting.
1Art storage, Walker Art Center. Photo: Gene Pittman.

Sowing Memory: Collecting Art and Saving Seeds

Ian Hanesworth

Divergent practices of collecting shed light on the connection between culture and agriculture, how collections can both serve and oppose capitalism, and how collections might revitalize our understandings of cultural value and sovereignty

Tags: agricultureart and sciencecapitalismcollectionConservationMemorymuseumsplantsvalue
Collage with fragment of green netting, wilted petals, green metallic candy wrapper, and strip reading: Inviting... enduring...
1Nailah Taman, Not Collaging #1, 2022.

What I’m Doing When I’m Not Writing

Aegor Ray

On fallow time, cycles of making and not-making, and what the body invites in while holding language at a distance

Tags: bodydreamsgriefpandemicprocessrest
Graphic illustration in yellow, green, blue, pink, and red, reading: Material for Metaphorization.
1Skyler Nowinski, Material for Metaphorization, 2023.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
5-23-2023

Material for Metaphorization

Naomi Crocker
1The dome in the gloaming. Photo: Gerty Tonjum.
Literature Performing Arts
4-4-2023

Below Deck at Back Channel Radio

Gina Favano
Four people with dark skin are lit on dark stage. One is sitting with mouth open, one is reaching, one is looking up, and another is embracing the others.
1Leslie Parker Dance Project, Call to Remember, 2020. Pictured, left to right: mayfield brooks, Amara T. Smith, Vie Boheme, Leslie Parker. Photo: Adriana Foreman.
Performing Arts
3-28-2023

Call to Remember Methodologies: Reflections

Naimah Petigny, Leslie Parker
Image of snowy woods and setting sun laid over another image of snowy field.
Design Visual Art
3-17-2023

Being in Place, Unseeing Ourselves

Torey Erin
Person with medium skin, white sweater, and glasses leans on kitchen island resting hand on chin, with pie in front of them.
1Tia-Simone Gardner. Photo: Uche Iroegbu.
Moving Image Visual Art
3-10-2023

Mother’s Egg Pie (Now, with Cardamom)

Mecca Bos
Person wearing knit hat and scarf cuts strip of wood with scissors, with in-progress basket on table in front of them.
1April Stone prepares splint for weaving. Photo courtesy the author.
Design Visual Art
3-3-2023

On Learning Something Old

April Stone
Person with medium dark skin and glasses wears lavender sweats and holds baby in lap, with person in armchair in background.
1Grandma and my oldest daughter, Sparta, Illinois, 2001. Photo courtesy the author.
Literature
2-3-2023

Fool’s Gold

Taiyon J Coleman
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Literature
1-30-2023

Group Chat

V.V. Ganeshananthan
Silhouette of person wearing headwrap in front of kitchen island, light streaming in window.
1Sarah White. Photo: Uche Iroegbu.
Performing Arts Visual Art
1-20-2023

A Pot of Something

Mecca Bos
Person with light skin holds basket of tomatoes in her arms and smiles at the camera, with tall tomato plants behind her.
1Photo courtesy Marianne Combs.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
1-16-2023

Marianne Combs: Slow Tending Bears Fruit

Youa Vang
Open book with short black text on white page, overlaid with round moon-like paper form.
1Sarah Peters, The Moon has no Weather, 2013. Collection Walker Art Center.
General
1-13-2023

For Elissa

Natalie Dalea
Digital illustration of a crow hovering over blue water, with starfruit in foreground, mountains in background, and a cloud of gold flakes in the air.
1UyenThi Tran Myhre, chia vàng, May 2021.
Literature Performing Arts
1-9-2023

Be Sweet, Stay Gold

UyenThi Tran Myhre

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