Artist Statement for portrait series in progress; first group of portraits created in 2014: Craft in Time: A Celebration of Essential Labor A group art show highlighting work in a variety of creative mediums. , Artists: Jenine Bressner, Priscilla Carrion, Ian Cozzens, Suzy Gonzalez, Corey Grayhorse, Hilary Jones, Cheryl Kaminsky, Yvette Koch, Jaime Lowe, Reba Mitchell, Sakiko Mori, Kartina Richardson, Shey Rivera,Continue reading “Craft In Time”
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This is an Emergency! Print Portfolio Introduction
“The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.” -John E. E. Dalberg, The History of Freedom in Antiquity, (1877). This is an Emergency! is a print portfolio project centered on reproductive rights and gender justice. There hasn’t been a safe timeContinue reading “This is an Emergency! Print Portfolio Introduction”
This is an Emergency!
This project was funded and created in 2012. Reproductive Rights and gender justice are in a state of emergency right now. This past year we witnessed the near defunding of Planned Parenthood in Congress and from Komen, one of their largest private funders. In 2011 alone, a historic 80 new laws were passed which furtherContinue reading “This is an Emergency!”
Artist Statement
Artist Statement For the “Perilous Realm” Collage Series. 2012. My work explores the realm of infinity, where perceptions of what might be considered opposing extremes become a shared reality. I explore a circular world where the future and the present are simultaneous, where a dystopic present and a utopic future exist in one place. TheContinue reading “Artist Statement”
13 Point Program to Regrow America
13 Point Program to Regrow America! -Peter Glantz and Meredith Stern As the garlic scapes sprout forth wipe your forehead with the euphoric richness of the earthy dream, and the earliness of the day innoculates your seeds with the promise of life away from empire, summon forth your new seedlings of resistance, wipe the sleepiesContinue reading “13 Point Program to Regrow America”
Art as a vehicle for social change
Vladmir Mayakovsky: “Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Hannah Hoch: “I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.” Printmaking is an amazing form of creative expression. The basic materials you needContinue reading “Art as a vehicle for social change”
A succinct cultural analysis of the use of cats in representing social change
I have been asked several times about the use of cats in my artwork and so I now present a succinct explanation of why I am not simply obsessed with cats and instead am very intentionally choosing to use cats to represent ideas of social change. On a very basic level, cats are free ofContinue reading “A succinct cultural analysis of the use of cats in representing social change”