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Fall/Winter 2022
This issue is dedicated to exploring how burnout can act as a catalyst for collaborating and collective organizing while also acknowledging the necessity for care in moments of exhaustion. The work presented in this issue digs into the complex power dynamics inherent to labor, care work, and unseen effort. How does burnout lead to precarity for small organizations, art spaces, or even personal practices? What does a post-burnout culture look like?
Cover: Andy Li, The Exhale, 2022.
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Title
Author
Category
Letter From the Editor
Jameson Johnson
Letter
PRINT ONLY
Curators’ Corner: Getting into the Garden
Caitlin Julia Rubin
Curator's Corner
Photography into Palimpsest: In Conversation with Toni Pepe
Michelle Millar Fisher
Conversation
Ujima’s Tenets for Resisting White Supremacy Culture (and Burnout) in the Workplace
Paige Curtis
Feature
When Workers Come a-Knockin’: Cultural Institutions and the Fight for Unionization
Josie Thaddeus-Johns
READ
A Very Black Space to Be: In Conversation with Golden
Nakia Hill
Slow Burn: Pyrographic Artist Katrine Hildebrandt-Hussey Draws Cosmic Connections One Careful Line at a Time
Jacqueline Houton
Profile
On Publishing and Organizing: In Conversation with Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy
Erin Segal
Tending the Flame: The Creative Community on Combating Burnout
Jessica Shearer
How Andy Li Is Threading Together Love and Awareness
Tessa Bachi Haas
Cubicle
Isabella Kiser
Artist Project
Fragments of Home: In Conversation with Kate Holcomb Hale
Shana Dumont Garr
Behind VA Shadows: An Alternative Form of Support for Museum Frontline Staff
Nemo Xu
Radical Welcome: A Roundtable on Grantmaking as Care-Centered Work
Abigail Statinsky and Anneke Chan
A Colleague Is in Crisis: Conflict Resolution Thought Partners Are Here to Help
Chenoa Baker
“Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability” at the RISD Museum
Matthew Lawrence
Review
“The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East” at Tufts University Art Galleries
Danni Shen
“Sunny Moxin Chen: Wandering Be-ing” at Distillery Gallery
Maya Rubio
“B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother, Little Sister” at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Karolina Hać
“Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus [infected]” at the Davis Museum
Marcus Civin
“Ceramics in the Expanded Field” at MASS MoCA
Kaitlyn Ovett Clark
Feature by Josie Thaddeus-Johns
Interview by Michelle Millar Fisher
Review by Marcus Civin
Review by Karolina Hać
Review by Danni Shen
Roundtable by Abigail Satinsky and Anneke Chan
Interview by Erin Segal
Review by Maya Rubio
Review by Matthew Lawrence
