{"id":11829,"date":"2021-10-01T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=11829"},"modified":"2021-10-01T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:59:11","slug":"austin-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/austin-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6026\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11829-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AustinThomas.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AustinThomas.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AustinThomas.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><strong class=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11836 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C928&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1424&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110-scaled.jpg?resize=315%2C420&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-1110-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/strong>Austin Thomas<span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0is an artist, curator, and community builder and is currently the exhibitions manager at FIT. A graduate of NYU, she has received numerous residencies and fellowships, including Wave Hill, Guttenberg Arts, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Smack Mellon. From 2007 to 2014, she directed the influential Pocket Utopia gallery. In 2016, New York City unveiled her permanent public sculpture for a new park in Brooklyn. She has also done public commissions for the Public Art Fund and Grinnell College. Thomas&#8217;s work is in the book\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/L\/bo16814556.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em class=\"\">Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists<\/em><\/a><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and its sequel,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livesustain.org\/artist-as-culture-producer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em class=\"\">The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life<\/em><\/a><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, edited by Sharon Louden. In addition, Thomas&#8217;s work has been shown nationally and internationally and written about in the New York Times,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/goings-on-about-town\/art\/austin-thomas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">New Yorker<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Art in American,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2014\/03\/artseen\/may-day-in-march-austin-thomas-utopian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Brooklyn Rail,<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/the-life-of-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Paris Review<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/666261\/printmaker-austin-thomas-memorializes-new-york-city-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hyperallergic<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. She is a seminar instructor at the New School, where she teaches the &#8220;Artist as Entrepreneur. &#8221; During the COVID shutdown, Thomas became a New York City history buff, walking her city and discovering it anew. She is a nature lover and enjoys nature writing, most recently reading\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/visualizing-nature-essays-on-truth-spririt-and-philosophy\/9781616899868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em class=\"\">Visualizing Nature, Essays on Truth, Spirit, and Philosophy<\/em><\/a><span class=\"\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0edited by Stuart Kestenbaum.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11837\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11837 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?resize=640%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?resize=1024%2C611&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?resize=768%2C458&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?resize=1536%2C917&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?resize=696%2C415&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?resize=1068%2C637&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?resize=704%2C420&amp;ssl=1 704w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?w=2011&amp;ssl=1 2011w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Thomas &#8220;COVID-19 Sequence,&#8221; 24&#215;42 in., ink on paper Crane&#8217;s Blue Stationery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11838\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11838 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?resize=640%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?resize=1024%2C792&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?resize=768%2C594&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?resize=1536%2C1188&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?resize=696%2C538&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?resize=1068%2C826&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?resize=543%2C420&amp;ssl=1 543w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?w=1551&amp;ssl=1 1551w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/03.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Thomas &#8220;COVID Sketchbook,&#8221; 5&#215;7 in., 2020 Pen, pencil, and collage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AustinThomas.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listAustin Thomas\u00a0is an artist, curator, and community builder and is currently the exhibitions manager at FIT. 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