Dana DeGiulio, 41, teaches painting in New York. Her book Nefertiti for the Blind was released by Attendant in February 2019.
Astrid Kaemmerling
Astrid Kaemmerling, Ph.D., is a german-born artist, researcher, arts administrator, and educator based in New Orleans, LA. Her work spans the genres of visual, performance and media art and strives to connect place memories of the past, such as collected travel experiences, with a critical exploration of specific neighborhoods and selected urban places. Kaemmerling has been exhibited internationally in Germany, Italy, Korea and the United States.
She has won several awards and fellowships, and has had residencies at the Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy, the Vermont Studio Center, VT, Enos Park, IL and Kala Art Institute, CA.
Her writing has been published in peer-reviewed journals and publications. She is the founder of The Walk Discourse, a social practice art project, educational platform and research laboratory that provides room for exchanges about public space. Founded in San Francisco, CA and currently based in New Orleans, LA, the program sets out to playfully and critically engage participants to study the urban and rural fabric through the act of walking. Current artistic research projects include a series of works that investigate “processes of home-building.”
Frankie Toan
Fragments
“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: “It shines like a little diamond”,
“What does?”
“This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”
-Jean Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
Life is a series of moments, many of which we never notice as they pass us by. When asked what we did over a weekend or on a previous evening, often we struggle to recall. While there is much to be said for being mindful in a given moment, there is also beauty in the loss of self within each little fragment of time, abandonment of the burden to remember. Letting go of the responsibility to make memories and to rather just be.
Kemi Adeyemi is finishing the first draft of her first book which is a an ethnography of black queer women’s social dance practices in Chicago. For the book, she interviewed women going to clubs to dance as well as the people who run the clubs. The book is set against the backdrop of Chicago’s corrupt political landscape and examines a tangible politics that plays out on the dance floor. Adeyemi also runs a critical arts writing residency called The Black Embodiment Studio based out of the University of Washington. The goals are to bridge a gap in arts writing due to lack of funding in Seattle while training graduate students in the skills they need to be arts writers. At the same time a big goal is to ensure that those trained in graduate programs have fluid, flexible, accessible writing. To hear more from Kemi Adeyemi, listen to the complete interview.
Scott Dolan lives and works in Brooklyn where is is currently working on paintings and drawings which he considers to be most of his artwork. Recently he has been doing paper gouache paintings of a pile of various kinds of pencils he received from a designer who passed away. These paintings represent a change for Dolan who has worked mostly in watercolor. Now working with gouache, he has tightened his style to capture the subject matter. Since 1992, Dolan has been creating Slight Headache Comics which are small scale comics with non-linear subject matter. To hear more about Scott Dolan’s work, including Slight Headache and some of the details of the pencils he’s painting, listen to the complete interview.
A Few Words to Keep in your Pocket:
Feel no need to grab every moment, let some trickle through your fingers like sand and be gone.
Interviews are available on iTunes as podcasts, and for Android please click here. All weekly essay pieces in a shareable format are here. The full archive of interviews here.
Books to Read
What are you reading? Add your titles to our reading list here. Kemi Adeyemi is reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Scott Dolan recently read Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris.The Joan Van Eyck Academie invites artists of a disciplines to apply for a 12-month post academic residency commencing in either April or November of 2020. Up to 35 spots are available. Artists receive a stipend plus a small yearly budget during residency. For full details and to apply, visit the website. Deadline for submissions is October 1.
Deadlines
Weekly Edited Grant and Residency Deadlines – review the list here.
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Brainard Carey is an author, artist and educator. He is the director of Praxis Center for Aesthetics. He has written six books for artists; Making it in the Art World, New Markets for Artists, The Art World Demystified, Fund Your Dreams Like a Creative Genius, Sell Online Like a Creative Genius and Succeed with Social Media Like a Creative Genius.
Where Would You Go If…
“Oh the places you’ll go…” so said Dr. Seuss and he was absolutely right. Your art career can take you around the world and back again if you let it. Today is the perfect day to start applying for opportunities to get out and see the world. Mingle with other cultures, work in places far from home, absorb this vast and beautiful world in which we live and enrich your life and your work beyond your wildest imagination.
The Norfolk, Virginia Public Art Commission and Eastern Virginia Medical School seek to commission an artist to design and create new artwork for a new construction at Eastern Virginia Medical School. For full details and to apply to this opportunity, visit the website. Deadline for applications is September 3.
Artists interested in spending the winter among the volcanoes of Hawaii are encouraged to apply for the National Parks Service Artist in Residence program at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. There is a stipend included as well as housing, studio, publicity, events and so much more. Artists are welcome to bring their partners or families with them to residency. For full details, visit the website. Deadline for applications is September 7.
The Joan Van Eyck Academie invites artists of a disciplines to apply for a 12-month post academic residency commencing in either April or November of 2020. Up to 35 spots are available. Artists receive a stipend plus a small yearly budget during residency. For full details and to apply, visit the website. Deadline for submissions is October 1.
At Praxis Center, we believe very strongly in an artists duty to see the world. The more we understand about what goes on in our own backyards and across the globe, the better able we become to interpret this world through art. Praxis prides itself on providing abundant opportunity listings to our students as well as guidance as they work their way through the application process. When you join, you receive the full support of our experts and a community of peers on a journey just like yours and ready to receive you with open arms.
Brainard Carey is an author, artist and educator. He is the director of Praxis Center for Aesthetics. He has written six books for artists; Making it in the Art World, New Markets for Artists, The Art World Demystified, Fund Your Dreams Like a Creative Genius, Sell Online Like a Creative Genius and Succeed with Social Media Like a Creative Genius.
Photo credit: National Parks Service