Spot 1: INTERPRETING SITE

INTERPRETING SITE

Interpreting Site

Site is a compulsion of the mind at work in the body.

Type:
Letters
Source:
Summer 2024
Credit:
Sherae Rimpsey

Tirzo Martha: Things in Perpetual Becoming

Tirzo Martha is an artist based in Curaçao and the founder of Instituto Bueno Bista (IBB). I traveled to Curaçao...
Type:
Interviews
Credit:
Interview/ Sherae Rimpsey

Tiffany Smith: Back Home

During my first meeting with artist Tiffany Smith, she showed me a photograph of her grandmother. It was a black-and-white...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2024
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Credit:
Text / Sherae Rimpsey

Africatown

My first visit to Africatown was by way of US Highway 90 and the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge, which spans the Mobile...
Type:
Features
Source:
Summer 2024
Credit:
Text / Kendyll S. Gross

Spot 2: CELEBRATING TK SMITH

CELEBRATING TK SMITH

Duane Linklater: mymothersside

Far in the distance of a vast, snow-covered clearing, men dressed in North Face jackets approach a large, dark mass...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Winter 2021
Location:
Seattle, WA
Credit:
Text / TK Smith

Toward a Monumental Black Body

The Black body has been objectified and used to incite terror, just as it has been used to revise and shift narratives. To address the growing call for diverse representation in public space, the question is: can artists succeed where the state fails?

Type:
Features
Source:
Spring 2020
Credit:
Text / TK Smith

Cosmo Whyte: Mining the Body for Gold

TK Smith and Cosmo Whyte discuss colonial retentions, notions of home, and Whyte’s recent exhibition at MOCA GA.

Type:
Atlanta, Interviews
Source:
January 15, 2020
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Interview / TK Smith

Spot 3: REWORLDING

REWORLDING

Earth Studies

Despite the diminutive size of our bodies, the Earth, in all its grand scale and complexity, is managing to grow inside us.

Type:
Projects
Source:
Spring 2024
Credit:
Text / Michael Jones McKean

A Ceramic Materials Atlas

Organizing these materials in our studio is the outermost tip of a complex global distribution network of intricate webs of highways, shipping routes, rail lines, and flight paths—a planetary vascular system and neural network, a pulsing flow of matter and information covering the surface of the earth.

Type:
Features
Source:
Spring 2024
Credit:
Text / Del Harrow

On Biodiversity—Timur Si-Qin and Haley Mellin in Conversation

I think that you and I both approach the natural world similarly with our work. In a meditative and devotional way, in which we try to look deeper and deeper into the visuality and details of nature.

Type:
Interviews
Credit:
Interview / Haley Mellin + Timur Si-Qin

Ecotone

In ecology, a place that comes into being only when two other places meet, is called the ecotone.

Type:
Glossary
Source:
Spring 2024
Credit:
Text / Sophie Strand

Spot 4: NOSTALGIA/HERITAGE

NOSTALGIA/HERITAGE

Greg Ito: Looking Back to Let Go

This is probably the most personal show I’ve made. I want people to know that the work is connected to these real experiences, so there’s pretty intimate stuff that’s only been seen within our family circle .… I had to ask my mom if it was okay to share these photographs. Since we weren’t able to get permission from relatives who have passed to share these things, all the faces are going to be covered with small white stickers. That way we can keep our family identities private and off the internet. These stickers also create a pathway for viewers to insert themselves into [my family’s] experience.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
May 11, 2022
Location:
San Diego, CA
Credit:
Interview / Stephanie Bailey

Kelly Taylor Mitchell: Masking Practice

Kelly Taylor Mitchell is a performance artist, but you’ll never see her perform. Instead, the experience of her work is...
Type:
Atlanta, Interviews
Source:
Summer 2023
Credit:
Text / Sarah Higgins

Simone Leigh: Sovereignty

“The work is a gateway, one that bridges extracted projections of African aesthetic realities by refocusing upon the origins of Black exterior expression. Those spaces—just like bodies—hold stories, memories, and dreams. The transformation of this pavilion foreshadowed how this experience would find me in a house of discourses. But this time, there could be a more nuanced conversation about the interiority of Black female consciousness.”

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2022
Location:
Venice, Italy
Credit:
Text / Mia Imani Harrison

Spot 5: BACK TO SCHOOL

BACK TO SCHOOL

Larping Adulthood: Freeville to Midlands 

At my elementary school, we maintained a post office, participated in kids’ voting, and took a lesson in free market...
Type:
Features
Source:
Web 2024
Credit:
Text / Courtney McClellan

Artists Books from The Atlanta School

In recent decades much attention has been given to a child’s ability to identify basic geometric shapes and the colors....
Type:
Atlanta, Features
Source:
Septemeber / October 1980
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Text / Ronnog Seaberg

Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Chasing Things That Cannot Be Chased

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner—an elastic term that includes artist, writer, teacher, collaborator, and public speaker. In Smooooooooooooooth Operator,...
Type:
Interviews
Source:
November 9, 2022
Location:
Athens, GA
Credit:
Interview / Courtney McClellan

Spot 6: GUEST EDITED BY EMILY WALTINGTON

GUEST EDITED BY EMILY WALTINGTON

“Golem Girl”: An Interview With Riva Lehrer

An interview with artist Riva Lehrer about her portraiture practice in which she represents queer and/or disabled bodies.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Winter 2018/2019
Credit:
Interview / Emily Watlington

Andrea Crespo

Andrea Crespo’s ongoing series of drawings centers around the stereotyping of people who have been psychopathologized as potential school shooters.

Type:
Projects
Source:
Winter 2018/2019
Credit:
Text / Emily Watlington
Project / Andrea Crespo

Rethinking Sensory Dimensions

An interview with artist Wendy Jacob about how her investigation of tactility brought her to work with communities of disabled people.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Winter 2018/2019
Credit:
Interview / Emily McDermott

Jesse Darling: The Ballad of Saint Jerome

In Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, artist and activist Sunaura Taylor speaks from her own experiences toward a...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Winter 2018/2019
Location:
London, UK
Credit:
Text / Hannah Gregory

Spot 7: Cross species communication

Cross species communication

stones make birds make stones

Kite, INYAN/ZINTKALA/INYAN KAGAPI (STONES MAKE BIRDS MAKE STONES), 2021 Created in response to Martha Tuttle’s installation, A stone that thinks...
Type:
Projects
Source:
April 26, 2023
Credit:
Project / Kite

Locus Hour

In Thill’s work, spirituality and hope coexist in tension with the banal materials of daily life, presenting an idea of transcendence that must pass through and engage with the grit of existence.

Type:
Projects
Source:
Fall 2021
Credit:
Project / Vanessa Thill