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Returning to Georgia
April 14, 2013I will be returning with Miriam Schaer will be returning to follow up on projects and collaborations started in January with Women’s Fund of Georgia. Our projects are building on my collaboration with Ida Bakhturidze for Feminist Felt. We will be collaborating with groups including Partisan Girls and Independent Group of Feminists, among others to [...]
Read moreIntroductory essay for Laura Anderson Barbata Transcommunality
February 13, 2013Turner Publications has published a beautiful full color catalog of Laura Anderson Barbata’s work with stilt dancers in New York, Trinidad and Tobago, and Oaxaca. I am honored to have my essay, Community, Collaboration, and Social Sculpture: The Interdisciplinary Work of Laura Anderson Barbata appear in the book. Transcommunality is available through Idea Books. From [...]
Read moreFelt Reports blog on Soros Grant in Republic of Georgia
January 14, 2013www.feltreports.tumblr.com chronicles our Arts and Culture Soros Grant in the Republic of Georgia working at the intersection of artists books and an indigenous crafts tradition of the Kakheti region: felt. Our work involves research and investigation on the traditions in this country and the professional needs of Georgian artisans, as well as 10, 2-day workshops at [...]
Read moreReview of Mark Bradford in Art Papers
December 9, 2012My review of Mark Bradford’s Two Videos installation at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia appears in the November/December Art Papers. From the review: ”A surge of discourse around the politics of the body and public protest rose from the aftermath of Egypt’s democracy demonstrations in Tahir Square and the Occupy Wall Street movement…Harking back to [...]
Read moreNew Gender Assignment publications
October 16, 2012I’m pleased to announce Gender Assignment: Zvono and Gender Assignment: Caracas are available through Central Booking and Vamp & Tramp Booksellers. Gender Assignment: Zvono was inspired by a gender test I gave at my solo exhibition at Galerija Zvono in Belgrade. Gender Assignment: Caracas is about the collaborative process of a book, paper and print [...]
Read moreSoros Arts and Culture Program awards artists book project, Felted Lives
September 16, 2012We are pleased to announce the Soros Arts & Culture grant program awarded three faculty members in the Interdiciplinary MFA in Book and Paper Clifton Meador, Melissa Potter and Miriam Schaer a grant for their project: Crafting Women’s Stories: Lives in Georgian Felt. The three bring together a variety of expertise to facilitate this project. [...]
Read moreReview of Consumer Culture at WomanMade Gallery
July 17, 2012I reviewed the exhibition, Consumer Culture at WomanMade Gallery in Chicago for AfterImage Magazine. The article will appear in their upcoming September/October 2012 edition and features a number of outstanding media works by artists like Kitty Hubbard around the relationship between feminism and female culture and consumerism. An excerpt from the essay: “According to text on [...]
Read moreFive by Five @Terrain Exhibitions Opening
June 6, 2012We had a fantastic opening featuring Mat Rappaport and my video, Cikago, and many amazing artists and curators from Belgrade. The video projection outside started about 8 pm, and by real nightfall, it was a beautiful addition to the front of Sabina Ott’s Oak Park house, the site of Terrain Exhibitions. We had a great [...]
Read moreFive by Five @ Terrain Exhibitions
May 15, 2012Terrain Exhibitions 704 South Highland Ave. Oak Park, IL 60304 June 2 – June 14, 2012 Opening June 2, 7 – 9 pm by Melissa Potter and Mat Rappaport with Branislav Dimitrijević, Dorijan Kolundzija, and Čedomir Vasić featuring selected artists including Miloš Tomić, Zoran Todorović, Mladen Bizumić and Jelena Juresa In 2003, before they [...]
Read moreFeatured Work in On Our Radar Database
April 17, 2012I am so pleased to announce my inclusion in Creative Capital’s On Our Radar program for those of us who advanced to the second and third rounds of the funding cycle this year. I’m featuring my film in progress, Ammunition for the Virgin, which you can check out here on my website in artworks featuring a sample [...]
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