Through site-specific installations, Basil Kincaid’s “Shamans Death” utilizes textiles to ponder metamorphosis.
Author Archives: 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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Turning a Clothesline into a Powerful Feminist Statement
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
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.
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After Museum Controversy, St. Louis Artists Focus on Community Building
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.