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Issue 13: Make Believe

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Issue 13 makes room for many forms of imagining. Maria Molteni and Laura Campagna draw parallels between the nineteenth-century Era of Manifestations and a heightened sense of spiritualism today. Jordan Barrant examines the portals that Caribbean artists have brought to Boston. Emily Sara and Sara Hendren imagine a world where disability design becomes quotidian. In our Community Voices section, we hear from local theater makers about the pieces of stagecraft that have enlivened recent performances. And for our artist project, we asked four artists to each share a design for a mask, with results that are by turns whimsical, playful, and pointed in their social commentary. Plus so much more...

On our cover, Tomashi Jackson's Time and Space (2020) layers archival images from the Civil Rights Movement with ephemera from the 2020 election—an election marked by an uptick in polling place closures. Issue 13 will make its debut just days before the 2024 election. Here, and in conversation with Alisa Prince, Jackson reminds us that history and the present are always intertwined, but more importantly, that the systems we take for granted are never guaranteed.

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In this Issue

Title

Author

Category

Link

From the Editor

Jameson Johnson

Letter

Holding a Mirror to Heaven: How parallels between the Shaker Era of Manifestations and early Spiritualism movements might inform our present

Laura Campagna and Maria Molteni

Feature

Blueprints for Building Something Big: The Indigo Arts Alliance is supporting Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists in Maine and beyond

Jessica Shearer

Feature

At ICA / Boston, Caribbean Artists Provide Portals to Other Worlds, But Who Enters?

Jordan Barrant

Feature

Ripple Effect: Lani Ascunción confronts colonial pasts while envisioning liberated futures

Grace Talusan

Profile

A Lifetime of Layering: How Tomashi Jackson moves between history, place, and an ever-expanding practice

Alisa Prince

Profile

Bringing Accessible Design Thinking Out of the Classroom: In conversation with Sara Hendren and Emily Sara

Jameson Johnson

Conversations

Rendering the Self as Myth, Monster, and Muse: In conversation with Hakeem Adewumi

Erwin Kamuene

Conversations

On Kinship with Land and One Another: In conversation with Deanna Ledezma, Josh Rios, and Anthony Romero

Jameson Johnson

Conversations

The Art of Stagecraft: Local theater makers offer a behind-the-scenes look at designs that work magic on stage

Jacquinn Sinclair

Community Voices

Masks

Soyoung L Kim, Laura Beth Reese, Michael C. Thorpe, and Beatriz Whitehill

Artist Project

"Alive and Kicking" at Colby College Museum of Art

Maddie Klett

Reviews

"Barbara Bosworth: The Meadow" at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Kate Schreiber

Reviews

"To a Returning Cloud: Inas Halabi" at Brookline Arts Center

Zach Ngin

Reviews

"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith" at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Karolina Hać

Reviews

"Scandalous Conduct: A Fairy Extravaganza" at the Great Friends Meeting House

Marcus Civin

Reviews

"John Vo" at Worcester Art Museum

Toby Wu

Reviews

"Displacement" at MassArt Art Museum

Shana Dumont Garr

Reviews