I’m happy to share the next One Question Exhibition (OQE) that went out yesterday in an email newsletter through @kadistkadist . If you’d like to subscribe go to /program/one-question-exhibition/
This week’s question author, Hyejung Jang @hyejung__jang (Seoul), works as the Chief Curator at DOOSAN Art Center DOOSAN Gallery and Co-organizer of WESS curatorial collective initiative, both in Seoul, South Korea. While visiting Seoul to organize the Arts in Society conference (with Tammy Ko Robinson and Common Ground) 2 years ago I was lucky to meet Hyejung Jang with Solana Cheteman when she gave us a tour of many alternative spaces throughout the city.
This OQE “How do we remember grandmothers?” takes place within many layers of context - first that South Korea is considered a “super-aged society” with over 20% of its population aged 65 or older, but more specifically the periods that have come to define both modern Korea and those elderly individuals such as the Japanese colonial era (1910-1945), the liberation of Korea (August 15, 1945), the Korean War (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953), the 2nd and 3rd Korean immigration wave to the United States (1970s-1980s), and the democratization movement (1980s). As Jang writes “Recently, a woman who was a comfort woman during the Japanese occupation passed away, and now there are only seven of us left. Japan still denies that history and is just waiting for the other seven to die. It is with this sense of responsibility and urgency that I ask this question.” She reflected, “I question how the thousands of layers of time, culture, and history that a single person holds can be defined and remembered.”
On Friday we are having our final presentation in the Crafting Kin series I’ve co-organized with Paloma Checa-Gismero on socially engaged art as part of a celebration with the Lang Center which will focus on their engaged humanities studio which supported this series. Join us for the whole program starting at 4 or Caroline’s performance starting at 4:45 in the SCHEUER ROOM in KOHLBERG HALL on Swarthmore’s campus. Stick around after for a reception and demonstrations from several Engaged Humanities Studio and student led projects.
About Caroline:
Caroline Woolard is a founding co-organizer of Art.coop and Head of Strategy at Pollinator.coop. She is the Area Head of Foundations in the Department of Art and Design at Montclair State University and the co-author of two major reports: Solidarity Not Charity (Grantmakers in the Arts, 2021) and Spirits and Logistics (Center for Cultural Innovation, 2022) and three books: Making and Being (Pioneer Works, 2019), a book for educators about interdisciplinary collaboration, co-authored with Susan Jahoda; Art, Engagement, Economy (onomatopee, 2020) a book about managing socially-engaged and public art projects; and TRADE SCHOOL: 2009-2019, a book about peer learning that Woolard catalyzed in thirty cities internationally over a decade. Woolard’s artwork has been featured twice on New York Close Up (2014, 2016), a digital film series produced by Art21 and broadcast on PBS. /
I’ve had such a fun semester teaching “Grassroots Archiving & Curating Engagement” through @experimentalethnography at University of Pennsylvania. In two weeks we are hosting a local art history Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon with @art_freelibraryofphiladelphia that we hope you’ll join for! No experience necessary! And also recapping what we’ve been up to just sharing some photos from field trips and guest visits with @art_freelibraryofphiladelphia@acadnatsci@asianartsphilly@publictrust_org@julierainbow9@_lowelauren@writersroomdrexel@marinamcdougallvella@davekyu@kislakcenter where we’ve learned about working with a wide variety communities in co-curation, archiving and oral histories. I’m grateful for the chance to teach something based on my own practices and for all the folks who shared their experiences with us. I hope you’ll join us to dig into Wikipedia editing on the 29th!
📣 Now Available! “Curating Engagement,” a new publication from Wagner Foundation and Public Trust (@publictrust_org ), brings together the conversations, frameworks, and practices of 50+ curators, artists, and educators to address the urgent questions facing curatorial practice today.
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I’m excited to share the latest One Question Exhibition in the series I I’ve been organizing with @kadistkadist over the last year.
This week’s question author, Amanda Gutierrez (Montreal), is an artist who works with sound and performance to explore belonging. Gutierrez’s projects draw from many contexts, including her home in Mexico City and current practice in Montreal where she is pursuing a Ph.D. at Concordia University studying the field of aural technologies in connection with Gender Studies in the urban context.
Amanda’s question “What do you hear while in silence?” was sent out yesterday via a newsletter which you can learn more about at /program/one-question-exhibition/ - we will have 2 more in this series so check out the archived work and subscribe to get them in your inbox!
Please come out to Swarthmore this Thursday March 26th for a lecture by Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist in our monthly session of Crafting Kin: A Year of Socially Engaged Art which I’m co-organizing with Paloma Checa-Gismero as part of the Engaged Humanities Studio fellowship with the Lang Center.
The talk will take place from 1230pm-130pm at the Lang Center at Swarthmore (3-5 Whittier Place Swarthmore, PA 19081)
About the speakers:
Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist have spent over a decade creating immersive exhibitions, interactive photo-based public art, and multimedia projects that have connected communities impacted by the criminal justice system with tens of thousands of viewers. Their work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and universities, as well as through parades, church-basement legal clinics, and illegal wheatpaste installations. They have received multiple awards, fellowships, national residencies, and reached wide audiences through the NY Times, BBC, the Guardian, NPR, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, PBS, VICE, and many others. Through fellowships from A Blade of Grass and Open Societies Foundation, they founded and co-directed the People’s Paper Co-op (PPC) and Reentry Think Tank in Philadelphia, PA. The PPC’s annual Free Our Mothers! Sisters! Queens! art campaign raised over $230,000 for the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund’s efforts to free Black mothers and caregivers for Mother’s Day. Their work is featured in the award winning books Marking Time, Walls Turned Sideways, and Angela Davis’s Abolition Feminism Now, and is in the permanent collections of museums and universities including the Free Library of Philadelphia, University of Florida, Tufts University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Yale University.
Only a few spots left for our April event: Superfund Radio Garden!
Join us on for Superfund Radio Garden, the 17th Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series program on Saturday, April 18, 2026 between 3 – 6pm at RAIR (7333 Milnor Street Philadelphia, PA 19136)
Superfund Radio Garden is a project of the Biomaterials Working Group, exploring the history of the remediated Metal Bank Superfund site, currently under EPA supervision and located on the Delaware River. The public is invited to visit a self-guided walking path in the Superfund Radio Garden where textile sculptures printed with plant-based inks on salvaged fabrics mark a series of temporary radio listening stations. The successive transmissions and soft imagery weave together questions and answers, both poetic and factual, about the past and future of a contaminated site.
Visitors may sign up for free timed entry (at the link in @ecosocialseries bio) to the Superfund Radio Garden in groups of 1 – 4 people on Saturday, April 18, 2026 between 3 – 6pm. This public event is a project from the Biomaterials Working group, in partnership with the Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series (ESSSSSS) and the Recycled Artist-in-Residency Program (RAIR), with support from the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Reminder and Change of Venue!
Learning from the Hudson River Watershed with Billy Yalowitz & Lize Mogel
Sunday March 22, 2026 2-4pm
at Ulises (1525 N American Street Studio 104, Ray Philly Philly, PA 19122)
RSVP and Reserve your free seat here
As part of the ongoing Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series (/) this program will bring together two artists who have been making work in and around the Hudson River Watershed, Billy Yalowitz (Philadelphia) & Lize Mogel (New York City), to share their work as we continue to think about making art on a bioregional scale here in Philadelphia.
Don’t forget to RSVP at the link in the @ecosocialseries IG bio or here /e/learning-from-the-hudson-river-watershed-with-billy-yalowitz-lize-mogel-tickets-1983281761136?aff=oddtdtcreator
I’m so excited to share the latest One Question Exhibition for @kadistkadist “Can water be an agent, a provocation, a verb?”
This week’s question author, Nina Barnett @ninaruthbarnett (Johannesburg), is an artist who uses drawings, immersive installations and experimental filmmaking to engage with questions of geography, infrastructure, materiality, and experiential knowledge. Barnett has taken up many projects dealing with water and industrial waste in South Africa, but the exhibition she has created extends to projects in Latin America and takes an explicitly feminist vantage point on environmental concerns.
Go to /program/one-question-exhibition/ to subscribe to future exhibitions in the series and look for Nina’s archived question there next month when our next one goes out!
@palomachecagismero and I hope to see you Thursday for Crafting Kin at @thelangcenter with Yvonne Lung - About the speaker:
Yvonne Lung 龍儀鳳 is an Asian American social practice artist with work ranging from sculpture, performance, video, events, cooking, to community organizing. Her work is about social change through interaction, learning what we have in common by using her heritage as a vehicle to address shared experiences despite cultural differences. She received her MFA from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in ceramics and her BFA from Texas Tech University in design communications. Artist residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Manymini Residency, Art Omi International Artist Residency, and Asian Arts Initiative’s Social Practice Lab Artist-in-Resident.She received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award in 2024, and the Art and Change Grant twice for projects “Tool” and “Dish”, the Velocity Fund twice for the projects “Dish – the Mealkit” and “Let’s Talk About Chinatown”, Fleisher Art Memorial’s Wind Challenge prize, and a Jackpot Grant by The Nevada Arts Council. She has exhibited and curated in CA, TX, NV, WA, ME, GA, and PA. She is currently the Operations Manager at Asian Americans United, a social justice non-profit organization. In the past she has also worked as a Mandarin interpreter on asylum cases for U.S. Immigration Court, taught art at many universities, managed ceramic studios, and many many other strange jobs that inspired her artwork. She founded the No Arena Arts Hive (NAAH) in early 2023 to gather creatives to help the Save Chinatown Coalition fight the 76ers from building their arena right next to Philadelphia’s Chinatown. She has been the co-captain of the Philadelphia Chinatown Dragon Boat Team from 2018-24, a team which she has been a member of since 2009. She is a founding member of Practice Gallery in Philadelphia, and also a founding member of the now defunct Radical Asian American Womxn’s Collective (RAAWC). She resides with her partner, Dustin Sparks, also an artist, in NE Philadelphia, along with their chonky yard cat, lil jimmy/meow meow.
