House for Invisible Dolls
Now that I’m seeing friends in person after our long spell of separation, I ask them this question: How have you changed during the pandemic? I find their answers haven’t yet formed, most people talk about what was cancelled or lost or how they wished they’d used their time. Maybe we’re just now collecting ourselves, […]
Visual Arts Week
August is traditionally the time for Visual Arts Week here in my town of Eugene, Oregon. This year I have a video in the Mayor’s Art Show You can also view my video, The Adventures of Steadman and Molly, on YouTube The MAS exhibit is mostly online in 2020, with a few works displayed in storefront windows […]
Write About Visual Art – Community Based Workshop
If local writers turned their attention to local contemporary art, what might happen? What new conversations and connections could emerge? This is the subject of an experimental writing workshop I’ll lead this summer. Write About Visual Art – Critical MAS Description: This 4-part workshop welcomes writers of all styles: fiction, nonfiction, poets, songwriters, bloggers, […]
Premiere of Trophallacy
My performance art piece, Trophallacy, a critique of the win/lose paradigm, premiered on 5/26/2018 to a packed house. Eugene Contemporary Art presented the event and you can find more photos at ECA and Gray Space Project. I’m developing a version of Trophallacy to place online. Meanwhile, you can listen to an audio clip. This voiceover is a […]
What exactly do I DO?
“What exactly do you DO?” I get this question all the time. My elevator speech stops at too many floors. I could list titles –author, writer, artist, arts advocate – but each one of those titles requires further explanation. CURRENTLY The Blackberry Curtain I interviewed 2 accomplished artists, Mollie Favour and Margaret Matson, to write […]
#ARTivism
ARTivism. ‘Artivism’ is a term coined by author and UCSD Professor Ricardo Dominguez. I’ve been holding that word like a touchstone. I’m glad to see intelligent people are out there writing, making art and making sense of the election results. These people are less stupefied than I am, at least in my current state. I […]
Let’s Talk About Art
If you’re in the Eugene area, please come to an event I’m facilitating over the next 3 Tuesday nights. The description below provides details, but the shorthand is this: Let’s Talk About Art. FREE! Facebook Event Public Art: The Big View 3 Evenings of video and conversation based on “Art of the MOOC” Tuesdays: Sept […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race: The Costuming of Emancipatory Politics
After 8 Seasons on Logo TV, it’s high time RuPaul’s Drag Race received recognition as important contemporary art. Socially engaged art often uses the structures of society as the very medium of the work, and yet Drag Race is radical enough to have fooled many into regarding the work as mere campy entertainment. RuPaul […]