Countdown to the artist talk and reception for “State of Illusion” at Santa Clara University’s Ary and Art History Gallery!
Join me and @lockjaws April 9th at 5:00 pm to celebrate and share what shaped the illusion.
Bay Area! I’m coming back into your loving arms to celebrate the work @yvonneescalanteart and I have been grinding on for the past year. I’ll be giving a Tuesday Night Lecture at SJSU on the 7th and will be doing a gallery talk on the 9th. I’d love to see you there.
Re-energized by art and friends in Georgia. Thank you to @s.h.horgan@isabelleloringwallace and @house_of_isenstein for including me in the thoughtful conversation about performing objects, and the perils and joys of animating an idea. Thank you to everyone else for making every trip to Atlanta something I’m sad to say goodbye to.
An incredibly dense time in Cincinnati (home of tiny beers, insanely preserved art deco hotels and amazing museums) where I eventually stopped taking pictures because I was having too much fun. Thanks to @matthewflores for collaborating on “Pro Tools:Technology as Process, Play, and Politic” with me and to @cthompto and @kaleenastasiak (my conference ride or die) for bringing their research and experience to share. It was amazing to meet so many academics who are trying their damndest to teach and support students in a horrifying time for education. Can’t explain what it means that the group of dorks I went to grad school (those who were in Cincinnati and those who weren’t) are still finding ways to be goofy together all these years later.
What a day. There is a sharp contrast between being told you aren’t worth a living wage and making objects talk about community with an amazing group of colleagues, students, and friends. 👉Feed people, make merry, scare your bosses 👈 📸: @miguellcaba
The non-dog to end all dogs. The wease, the people’s princess. Cleo, we said our goodbyes in December but you will be so missed, you absolute freak of nature.
Whirlwind trip to California but I wanted to honor a woman whose 30+ years in the classroom quietly came to a close last week. Unsurprisingly, you were not interested in receiving laurels for what you do, I believe you would say that it’s what teachers are supposed to do and not something particularly out of the ordinary. Instead you went out in a way that is emblematic of how you have worked all these years: pushing yourself to work harder for students during this absolutely wild year. As you told me your plans to teach a brand new book this year because students needed something that met the moment, I could only laugh because of course you were. Watching you work tirelessly to make the world of fiction understandable and relevant to successive generations of students all while making sure kids felt seen and heard in an increasingly impersonal system is the reason I want to be an educator. I feel so lucky that I have gotten to watch you work and glad I got to celebrate what has been a incredible career. Here’s to bringing that unrelenting energy to whatever’s next🧡
Working the polls today and reflecting on the last 9 months of chaos. Like much of 2020, today isn’t gonna “fix” things, but it is an important lever of power we have as citizens. Despite feeling more disillusioned than I ever have by the racist broken system we’ve inherited, I voted to get us closer to a more equitable and just future for everyone who lives in the US with the understanding that this is just one piece of the puzzle. Please go vote.
