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Fall 2021
Issue 07: Rooting is a site for exploring all that cannot be seen at the surface. It is a space for highlighting the hidden connections, histories, and shared networks of knowledge that make our creative community flourish. Within these pages, artists, writers, community organizers, and scholars reflect on what it means to “root” in their own sites, communities, and practices.
Cover Image: Gohar Dashti, Untitled, from the series Uprooted, 2019.
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Author
Category
Letter from the Editor
Jameson Johnson
Letter
PRINT ONLY
The Radical Act of Growing a Plant: “Garden for Boston” at the MFA
Paige Curtis
Feature
READ
Communing in Isolation: Rania Matar’s Window Portraits
Shuchi Saraswat
Profile
“It’s My Infinite Indigenous Queer Love”: In Conversation with Jeffrey Gibson
Mary McNeil
Conversation
Choreographing the Personal: A Profile of Jessica Roseman
Ilya Vidrin
On Place, People, and Plants: A Visit with Gohar Dashti
by Karolina Hac
Artist to Artist: On Hybrid Rhizomatic Identity
Sawool Kim and Julia Kwon
Dream House: How a Providence Collective Fashioned A Home For Art in a Storied Space
Jacqueline Houton
A Museum Minus the Hierarchies: How Two Artists Are Paving the Way for the Future of Art in Fall River
Marguerite Wynter
Reflected Across Time: In Conversation with Eli Brown
Alli Salwen
Beyond the Root: Musings on Mushrooms as Metaphors for Blackness
Arielle Gray
Special Project
Shifting Contours
Joanna Tam
Can Our Gardens Create Change? The Story of CoVictory Gardens
Sheila Novak
Historical Roots and Future Roots: Reflections on Efforts to Cultivate Culture in Boston
Raquel Jimenez
Roots of Revolution and Diaspora in Firelei Báez’s ICA Watershed Installation
Elizabeth S. Hawley
Connecting Histories: Glenn Kaino’s “In the Light of a Shadow” at MASS MoCA
Marcus Civin
In a Painterly Field: Tamara Gonzales’s Cosmic Recess at Providence College Galleries
Leah Triplett Harrington
On the Way: “A Thread, Extended” at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360
Maya Rubio
Interview by Mary McNeil
Review by Marcus Civin
Feature by Ilya Vidrin
Profile by Shuchi Saraswat
Feature by Paige Curtis
Review by Leah Triplett Harrington
Review by Elizabeth S. Hawley
