Jessica Baran is a poet, curator, critic and Associate Director of Curatorial and Program Development at Barrett Barrera Projects and projects+gallery.
The author of three poetry collections – most recently “Common Sense” (Lost Roads Press, 2016) – she is the former art writer for the Riverfront Times(2008-2012), Assistant Director of White Flag Projects (2008-2011), and Director of fort gondo compound for the arts (2012-2016). She also lectures intermittently at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art and St. Louis University’s Prison Arts & Education program.
She holds a B.A. in visual art from Columbia University, NY and an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis – where she lives with poet Nathaniel Farrell and their dog Benny.
The artist project mentioned in the interview by Catalina Ouyang’s can be seen here: anotherdocument.info
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