Tag: Conversations with Women in the Arts

MEMORIAS Y RESISTENCIAS | FOTOSEPTIEMBRE – MEXICO, 2024

Claudia Pretelin

Como parte de las actividades del Festival Fotoseptiembre 2024 organizado en México por el Centro de la Imagen, Instruments of Memory y el Museo de las Mujeres Costa Rica presenta MEMORIAS Y RESISTENCIAS: MUJERES | ARTISTAS| HISTORIAS AFROLATINAS Y CARIBEÑAS, un proyecto que reúne el trabajo curatorial de Claudia Mandel Katz (Argentina-Costa Rica), Claudia Pretelin (México-Estados Unidos) y Sussy Vargas Alvarado (Costa Rica). Esta muestra presentada con el apoyo del Centro Queretano de la Imagen incluye la obra de diecisiete autoras contemporáneas de más de diez países en Latinoamérica y…

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…