TAM workers go public with community supporters 10/17/22
We Art Tacoma Podcast- Reimagining the Museum with Eden Redmond: Why the Tacoma Art Museum Staff is Unionizing
Eden Redmond is the TAM Institutional Giving Manager and one of the representatives of TAM WU: Tacoma Arts Museum Workers United. She educates the We Art Tacoma team on the importance of union recognition and gives us all sorts of helpful info and updates!
Jamika Scott, Eden Redmond, and Katy Evans for We Art Tacoma, listen to the full episode here.
A Place for Reimagining
Overlap and Outliers is a publication of critical and creative reflection on Carnation Contemporary's second exhibition cycle (February 2020 to November 2021) through the eyes and intellect of five regional arts writers: Vicki Krohn Amorose, Graham W. Bell, Laurel McLaughlin, Ella Ray, and Eden Redmond. Each author selected a group of Carnation artists to write about, conversing with them and spending time with their work. The resulting essays illuminate commonalities and distinctions between member artists, and provide a valuable look at the way artists with varying practices exist together in a collective like Carnation’s.
Melanie Stevens: in medias res(t) at Stumptown
This cycle of never-ending violence and the continued exasperation or misunderstanding by dominant groups builds an ouroboros between the exposure of past violence and in anticipation of the inevitable future violence. Thus questioning how media coverage is consumed and digested is paramount.
Published 2018 for 60 Inch Center
Ambivalent Academia, DIY Art School at Its Finest
After 15 years teaching in formal arts education, Stephen Slappe is about to embark on his own independent alternative academic project. Future Forum is a ten month residency-style program offering intensive projects, critiques, and support for all admitted, at a humane cost of $300 a month. Slappe is both dismantling and repurposing the classroom; “While there are certainly many problems persisting in higher education, these institutions are generally full of bright, caring people who truly want to facilitate a better world.”
On Jennifer Steinkamp at the Portland Art Museum
"When reading about the exhibition, I find discussions of vanitas, the mortal symbology of seasons... These are not distinct trees. These are not distinct mortalities. These trees have no roots; they float inches from the ground. I am uprooted, cut off, timeless and immediate too. Mortality unmoors. Confronting death is only subjective. Hypersensitive and inarticulate, these are feelings of grief, not high-minded reflection... Observed comparisons between projected and natural trees: They are both powered by light."
still life, los angeles, Hobbes Ginsberg, 2014
"Glitter, Goop and Anticapitalist Angst: Teen Girl Tumblr Photographers Make the Millennial Still Life"
Hobbes Ginsberg's online photographic series still alive reimagines still life for a millennial moment. Ginsberg’s images celebrate the meager materials afforded by an unstable economy and simultaneously critique capitalist packaging of femininity. Designing these images to be circulated for free on Tumblr obstructs their ability to be purchased, but these images are still entangled in capitalism and privilege as they rely upon expensive technologies to be produced and digital literacy to be accessed.
Published in 2016 with Sightlines journal produced by California College of the Arts.
