{"id":4692,"date":"2018-03-21T15:49:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/jessica-baran\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T00:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:10:36","slug":"jessica-baran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/jessica-baran\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Baran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessicabaran.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7388 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_1236-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_1236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_1236-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_1236-2.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_1236-3.jpg 420w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_1236-4.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Jessica Baran<\/a> is a poet, curator, critic and Associate Director of Curatorial and Program Development at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrettbarrera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barrett Barrera Projects<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projects-gallery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projects+gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The author of three poetry collections &ndash; most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Products\/9780918786630\/common-sense.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&ldquo;Common Sense&rdquo; (Lost Roads Press, 2016)<\/a> &ndash;&nbsp; she is the former art writer for the <i>Riverfront Times<\/i>(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 &amp; Visual Art and St. Louis University&rsquo;s Prison Arts &amp; Education program.<\/p>\n<p>She holds a B.A. in visual art from Columbia University, NY and an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis &ndash; where she lives with poet Nathaniel Farrell and their dog Benny.<\/p>\n<p>The artist project mentioned in the interview by Catalina Ouyang&rsquo;s can be seen here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/anotherdocument.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anotherdocument.info<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7389 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Overview-is-a-place-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Overview-is-a-place.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Overview-is-a-place-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Overview-is-a-place-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Overview-is-a-place-3.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Overview-is-a-place-4.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Overview-is-a-place-5.jpg 630w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Overview-is-a-place-6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&ldquo;Overview is a place,&rdquo; March 6 &ndash; 12, 2018 at the SPRING\/BREAK Art Show (New York City). Artists included: Lyndon Barrois, Jr., Addoley Dzegede, Jen Everett, Kahlil Irving, Basil Kincaid, Katherine Simone Reynolds, WORK\/PLAY. Image: Samuel Morgan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7390 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/XOXO-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/XOXO.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/XOXO-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/XOXO-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/XOXO-3.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/XOXO-4.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/XOXO-5.jpg 654w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/XOXO-6.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/XOXO-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&ldquo;XOXO,&rdquo; February 8 &ndash; March 10, 2018 at the Des Lee Gallery (St. Louis, MO). Group exhibition including work by Zoe Buckman, Nicole Eisenman, Fantich &amp; Young, Chantal Jaffe, Terence Koh, Marilyn Minter, Toyin Odutola, Mickalene Thomas and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others. Image: James Byard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Baran is a poet, curator, critic and Associate Director of Curatorial and Program Development at&nbsp;Barrett Barrera Projects&nbsp;and&nbsp;projects+gallery. The author of three poetry collections &ndash; most recently &ldquo;Common Sense&rdquo; (Lost Roads Press, 2016) &ndash;&nbsp; she is the former art writer for the Riverfront Times(2008-2012), Assistant Director of White Flag Projects (2008-2011), and Director of fort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}