Category: Archive

ARCHIVING ACTIVISM: A CONVERSATION WITH MONICA SHEETS

Sarah E Webb

Monica Sheets is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores ideas of participation, authority, and the possibility of civil engagement beyond traditional forms of social activism. Through organizing events, developing archives, and conducting oral histories, she envisions spaces that welcome participants who might not identify as activists yet long to have a voice in the politics impacting their lives.  Sheets’ artistic practice is a product of the places she has called home—from her upbringing in the Rust Belt city of Toledo, OH, to years spent as an expatriate living in the…

CRAFTING MEMORIES: A CONVERSATION WITH HOLLY JERGER

Claudia Pretelin

Holly Jerger. Photo: Symrin Chawla *Special thanks to Sarah E. Webb for editing this interview For the past seventeen years, Holly Jerger has been the  Senior Exhibitions Curator at Craft Contemporary, founded as a museum to reveal the potential of craft to educate, captivate, provoke, and empower. Recently, she joined Cal State University, Northridge, as their new Art Galleries Director. In this interview, Jerger reflects on her first encounters with art, her time and collaborative work at Craft Contemporary, and her influences and ideas on memory.  As a curator, Holly…

Support

Claudia Pretelin

You can support Instruments of Memory in many different ways: Sign up: Get your name on the list. Interviews delivered in your mailbox! Share: Let your friends know about Instruments of Memory. Sponsor: Add your name to our website. Email us at contact@instrumentsofmemory.com to learn more. Email us: Tell us how we’re doing, we’d love to hear from you! Donate: Funding will directly benefit our interviewees. It will allow us to promote their voices with sponsored content on social media and will keep this site live! When you sign-up, share,…