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Mallory Nezam

Mallory Nezam is a public artist & urban strategist integrating community development, socially-engaged art and urban planning. Her writing has appeared in Surface Design Journal, The Public Art Review, Temporary Art Review, Art Animal, The Mantle, and The Riverfront Times.  She holds a Masters of Design in Art, Design and the Public Domain from Harvard University and is the Founder of STL Improv Anywhere, and a founding member of the Artivists STL collective which arose in St. Louis, MO amidst the Ferguson Uprising. She is currently the Pratices for Change Fellow at Arizona State University and is based in Oakland, California.

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Wrapped in the Spirit of Transformation

by Mallory Nezam July 1, 2019July 1, 2019

Through site-specific installations, Basil Kincaid’s “Shamans Death” utilizes textiles to ponder metamorphosis.

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Turning a Clothesline into a Powerful Feminist Statement

by Mallory Nezam January 3, 2018

Artist Mónica Mayer’s multifaceted El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project uses a symbol of domesticity to generate dialogue and support taking ownership of feminist issues and experiences.

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Fights to Withhold Paintings from Capitol Hill Show Their Political Power

by Mallory Nezam January 30, 2017January 27, 2017

Recent disputes over a painting by an 18-year-old and another from the 19th century illustrate art’s ability to speak truth to power, but also to become a pawn in politicians’ power games.

Installation view of 'Basil Kincaid / Audrey Simes: R3clamation : Inward Quest' at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary
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After Museum Controversy, St. Louis Artists Focus on Community Building

by Mallory Nezam October 24, 2016October 25, 2016

During meetings in which local artists of color and allies gathered to strategize in response to the controversy at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, two possible approaches emerged: reprimand and correct the museum, or elevate the good work happening beyond its walls.

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