{"id":5845,"date":"2017-04-05T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2018-05-06T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:20:26","slug":"beverly-naidus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/beverly-naidus\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Naidus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_393\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5845-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/BeverlyNaidus.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/BeverlyNaidus.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/BeverlyNaidus.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 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5846 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BeverlySelfie2016.jpg?resize=300%2C237&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BeverlySelfie2016.jpg?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BeverlySelfie2016.jpg?resize=768%2C607&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BeverlySelfie2016.jpg?resize=1024%2C810&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BeverlySelfie2016.jpg?resize=696%2C550&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BeverlySelfie2016.jpg?resize=1068%2C845&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BeverlySelfie2016.jpg?resize=531%2C420&amp;ssl=1 531w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BeverlySelfie2016.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beverlynaidus.net\/\">Beverly Naidus<\/a> is an interdisciplinary artist, activist and educator, known for her interactive, site-specific installations to provoke dialog and storytelling.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Inspired by lived experience, topics in her artwork include environmental illness, climate change, unemployment, the alienation of consumer culture, nuclear nightmares, body hate, cultural identity, visions for the future and global justice. She has exhibited her work, guest lectured and led workshops all over North America and in Europe. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Her work has been part of major exhibitions at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC, the Hammer Museum in LA, the Boulder Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Lehmbruck Museum in Germany, the Jewish Museum in several cities and hundreds of other galleries, public sites and community centers. Her work has been discussed in many journals and books. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She is the author of <em>Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame<\/em>, a narrative collage that explores the motivations of teaching and making art for social change and includes the stories of 33 other practitioners. She has been a teaching artist in many New York City museums and a visiting artist\/lecturer at Carleton College, Goddard College, Hampshire College and the Institute for Social Ecology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She has had tenure at California State University, Long Beach and the University of Washington, Tacoma. She facilitates a unique, interdisciplinary, socially engaged, studio art curriculum at the latter campus.\u00a0 Her collective, ARTifACTs, is developing a series of collaborative and interactive projects with the theme, \u201cWe Almost Didn\u2019t Make It\u201d that deals with our uncertainties about the future from the perspective of our descendants.\u00a0 Her website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beverlynaidus.net\/\"><span class=\"s2\">www.beverlynaidus.net<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5847\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5847 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?resize=640%2C478&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?resize=1024%2C765&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?resize=768%2C574&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?resize=696%2C520&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?resize=1068%2C798&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?resize=562%2C420&amp;ssl=1 562w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18-andnow.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Perils and Rewards of Activism Game\u201d at the center of the installation, &#8220;AND NOW Behind Curtain #2\u201d &#8211; 2012, Folklife Festival, Seattle, WA. The game features discouragement and encouragement cards, and invites the \u201cwinners\u201d to share a story about their experience of activism. They share it out loud and then leave a written copy in the archive surrounding the game for others to read.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5848\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5848 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?resize=1068%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nightmare Quilt (Revival) 2017, Seattle Presents Gallery (hosted by the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture) &#8211; originally created in 1988 and exhibited on the east and west coasts of the USA, this quilt originally had 54 nightmares about the future on one side, and 54 visions or dreams for the future on the underside. In order to see the dream side, one has to write down one\u2019s own nightmare or dream and place it under the quilt. If one asks for help, the whole quilt is turned over to reveal the interconnecting dreams. In 2017, 27 more nightmares (and 27 more dreams) were added to the quilt to reflect the increasing concerns and hopes of living in this time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/BeverlyNaidus.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listBeverly Naidus is an interdisciplinary artist, activist and educator, known for her interactive, site-specific installations to provoke dialog and storytelling.\u00a0 Inspired by lived experience, topics in her artwork include environmental illness, climate change, unemployment, the alienation of consumer culture, nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-5845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists","8":"tag-tacoma","9":"tag-us"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_9203.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-1wh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5851,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/5851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}