Brainard Carey

Genevieve Leavold is a self-taught painter.

Characterized by shifting organic forms, Genevieve Leavold’s enigmatic paintings and subtle drawings evoke a sense of things existing just outside the known world. Taking an intuitive approach to her practice, Leavold allows compositions to evolve as an attempt to communicate questions about civilisation and human nature. The forms within her work are extracted from glimpses of wilderness in urban landscapes.

Genevieve Leavold has exhibited across the UK, Europe and the US and has work in private collections worldwide.

The Book mentioned in the interview is The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt

“I like to make pictures.  I like it when people put them up in homes and museums.  But mostly I like it when someone comes across my pictures taped to a wall or inserted into their newspaper or on a bus or subway because photography has the ability to show us what we don’t see.” – Bill Arnold

Julie Harrison has been an artist in New York City for more than thirty-five years, moving between video, photography, painting, performance, installation, books and digital images. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards and has exhibited widely. From 2003–2010, Harrison founded and directed the Art & Technology B.A. Program at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and currently works with Granary Books, publisher of artists books and works exploring the intersection of word, image and page.

Julie Harrison’s early time-based works in the 1970s traversed through private performances for video to multiple video camera/monitor performances and installations. A single-channel extension of these ideas was developed with image-processed videos, utilizing multiple-source systems in real time, produced on-and-off for a period of 15 years at the Experimental Television Center (ETC). During this time, Harrison recognized the importance of the collaborative process, working with other artists, writers, musicians, dancers, architects, and educators. She was an early member of the artists’ group, Collaborative Projects (Colab), participating in seminal theme shows and working in many capacities on the artists’ cable TV show, “Potato Wolf.”  She was co-founder of Machine Language, a video art group, and later, through her own company, Julie Harrison Productions, produced and directed video art, documentaries and art educational videos which have aired on PBS nationwide and were featured in festivals such as the Toronto Film Festival, The World-Wide Video Festival in The Hague; Video Roma in Italy; Video/Culture Canada in Toronto; the National Video Festival in Los Angeles, among others.

Museum exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Arts & Design in New York, The Neuberger Museum/Purchase, The Albany State Museum, the Bronx Museum for the Arts, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Smith College Museum of Art, the Astoria Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Clark Humanities Museum, The Walker Art Center; and in Germany, the Staatliche Museum in Baden-Baden, the Munchner Stadtmuseum in Munich, and the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt.

Awards include the National Endowment for the Arts (2), New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Artists Public Service Award (CAPS), Funding Exchange / Paul Robeson Fund, the Film Fund, Barbara Lathum Memorial Award, Colorado Video Award / 1st Prize from the Athens Film and Video Festival; Gold Apple / 1st Prize from the National Educational Film & Video Festival; Honorable Mention from the Atlanta Film and Video Festival.

Julie Harrison’s book and video works reside in the private and public collections of: The Getty, the Library of Congress, Harvard University, Brown University, University of California/San Diego, Yale University, University of Delaware, University of Iowa, University of Southern California, Scripps College, University of California/Santa Barbara, New York Public Library/Berg Collection, Albany State Museum, Staatliche Kunstalle, Stichting Kijkhuis, The Kitchen Center, Park Library (Central Michigan University), Experimental TV Center, Women Make Movies, Ampersand/Athens Center for Film & Video, Video Inn (Vancouver), Metropolitan Toronto Library, University of Connecticut, SUNY/Binghamton, and others.

Julie Harrison’s work is represented and distributed by Granary Books (New York), Women Make Movies (New York), Stichting Kijkhuis (Netherlands) and Video Out (Vancouver Canada). Learn more on her website.

Wendy Call is a writer, editor, translator, and educator based in Seattle. She has served as Writer in Residence at two dozen institutions, including five national parks, four universities, two visual arts centers, a public hospital, and a historical archive.

She co-edited the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide and wrote No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy, winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction.

Wendy’s writing has appeared in ten anthologies and more than fifty journals and magazines. Essays from her collection-in-progress, Grief Ephemera(l), can be read in LitHub and Yes!

Other essays appear at Guernica, Orion, and Witness. Her audio and video essays have been exhibited at national parks and art galleries in Florida and Washington, and her digital, map-based essay,  Squbeqsed Stories, lives online. Wendy co-produced (with Karen Werner) “You Will Not See Me Die,”which was broadcast on Australian National Radio in September 2017 and became the subject of a podcast interview with Ilan Stavans in February 2018.

Wendy teaches creative writing and environmental studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. She was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow (for translation) and will be a 2018-2019 Fulbright Scholar in Colombia.