Pleased that my animation, The Chthulu and the Final Girl, was part of the media exhibition at ISEA 2017 in Manizales, Colombia in June 2017. Here it is playing in entry to media area; it also screened in small theater.
With ASU Hayden Librarians I organized ASU’s Second Annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 31st, 2017. While our turnout was humble (13 participants) we made 93 edits to 23 articles and added 3,480 words; these were all articles about artists who identify as female. It was a great day; we were happy to be one of 100s of edit-a-thons across the world all happening in March. Check out the International Organization here: http://www.artandfeminism.org/
Sent this print, Disco Volante (digital 3D render), to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council this week to be a part of their spring benefit auction. Honored to be included. Disco Volante was the stage name of the yacht in the James Bond film Thunderball; the real life boat was once owned by Trump and was called the Trump Princess; it is currently owned by Al-Waleed bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family. The print was beautifully framed by Fine Art Framing in Tempe, Arizona.
I am curating a screening of experimental videos and animations for the Emerge Festival 2017 at ASU Feb. 25 (with head-curator Dehlia Hannah). Electric Breath is a screening that traces Frankensteinian themes in recent experimental video and animation. From monstrous avatars struggling to thrive in, or escape from, virtual worlds to animal-headed humans narrating a drowned city, the screening presents a forecast by turns satirical, dreamy and dystopian. Artists include Katie Torn, Carla Gannis, Marina Zurkow, Eva Davidova, and Hilary Harp + Suzie Silver.
I co-organized the Phoenix Nasty Women exhibition and Planned Parenthood benefit Jan. 14, 20 + 21 with Colleen Donohoe, Patricia Sannit, Laura Dragon and Erika Hanson. We were one of over ~30 sister shows to the originating Nasty Women benefit at the Knockdown Center in NYC. Our PHX version raised over $19,300 for Planned Parenthood Arizona. In addition to the work on the walls (we received ~320 donated works from Arizona artists) we hosted a dance performance (1/20) by Nicole L. Olsen and DanceArtists and a Nasty Women reading (1/21) curated by Deborah Sussman. Here’s our website: phxnastywomen.wordpress.com
Here is an interview with me about the show on our local NPR station: kjzz.org/
My animation The Chthulu and the Final Girl is on view as part of Push Comes to Shove: Women and Power exhibition at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art until Jan. 8, 2017. The show was curated by ASU Professor Muriel Magenta and SMOCA Director and Head Curator Sara Cochran.