Memorial for Queer Rhyolite, a temporary monument to dreams in the dust is a public work originally installed for the inaugural Bullfrog Biennial at the Goldwell Open Air Museum in October 2019. The piece memorializes a 1980s dream to establish “Stonewall Park,” a gay utopian effort aimed for Rhyolite, NV, a piece of deserted mining country that lies between Death Valley National Park and the Nevada Test Site.
Read MoreResearch is a solitary practice, but a research fellowship can be a tool for community-building, and the relationships between artists and archival materials can help upend and reshape our sense of history. Special Collections at the Providence Public Library (PPL) in Providence, Rhode Island offers an annual, 6-8 month Creative Fellowship for an artist to do intensive archival research and create new work, along with an interactive public program.
Read MoreCryptozoology is part of fringe science or pseudoscience along with ufology, numerology, transcendental meditation, electrogravitics, and more. These include different communities that often seem to be fun, harmless, and open-minded, but can be quite misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic, racist, and sexist.
Read MoreI created this collection of video portraits of women in eastern Kentucky nearly ten years ago while pursuing my Masters in Fine Art from the University of Kentucky. It’s both comforting and humbling to revisit past work, but I find this timing especially poignant. I moved from Kentucky to New York City shortly after completing this film. I now find myself confined to a small apartment with my husband and baby in the midst of a global pandemic, in a universal holding pattern of our usual lives, contemplating how we want to shape our future life and home with our daughter.
Read MoreDuring my visit to One Archives in LA last summer, I found a wide range of materials across lines of class, sexuality, gender expression, and race, however there are still gaps in representation: there is less working class material and the collection still favours big coastal cities.
Read MoreExplore “Freedom Road Sites” related to Black Liberation across North Carolina through the African American Heritage Commission’s digital archives, or make plans to view these historic sites for when life goes back to semi-normal, like the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony in the Outer Banks, Orange Street Landing in Wilmington, or the Mendenhall Plantation in Jamestown.
Read MoreFind your local libraries! The directory of North Carolina libraries lists all libraries in North Carolina, alongside options for users to search a variety of library information including names, addresses, etc. or to browse by location or type of library.
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