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Category Archive: Initiatives

Announcing The Chart’s 2018 Visiting Critic

Imani Roach will be The Chart's inaugural Visiting Critic in July 2018.
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Imani Roach, a Philadelphia-based scholar, visual artist and musician, will be visiting in July as the inaugual Visiting Critic for The Chart.

The Chart April 6, 2018 Initiatives, Press Releases, Vol. 3, No. 2: Spring 2018

On Vulnerability & Heavy Objects: a reflection by Gordon Hall

Gordon Hall, The Number of Inches Between Them, performance at Winter Street Warehouse, 2017.
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Gordon Hall, a New York-based artist, on ideas that surfaced around the creation of The Number of Inches Between Them, a sculpture and performance in multiple locations in mid-coast Maine.

Gordon Hall August 22, 2017 Initiatives, Vol. 2, No. 4: Summer 2017

Temp to Perm proves a need for a shared language of public art

John Sundling, Ghost Fence, 2017. Installed in the median of Franklin Arterial in Portland, ME, as the first of three temporary art projects facilitated by TEMPOart this summer.
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Creating public art — and public art conferences — requires deep, internal work as much as it does communication, planning, passion, and dedication. by Jenna Crowder

Jenna Crowder June 15, 2017 Initiatives, Reviews, Vol. 2, No. 3: Spring 2017

The Arts Agency Report Card: RESULTS!

These are the logos for all fifty state arts commissions and the District of Columbia: what do you think?
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The results are in — here are 51 state arts agency logos as ranked by our readers.

Jenna Crowder January 9, 2017 Initiatives, Vol. 2, No. 2: Winter 2017

The Arts Agency Logo Report Card

These are the logos for all fifty state arts commissions and the District of Columbia: what do you think?
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We’re looking at 51 arts agency logos for design quality, sense of place, and je ne sais quoi. Take the survey and tell us what you think.

Jenna Crowder December 4, 2016 Initiatives, Vol. 2, No. 1: Fall 2016

The Ambling Aesthetics of PLATFORM PROJECTS/WALKS

Angela Ellsworth: Museum of Walking, Tempe, Arizona.
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PLATFORM PROJECTS/WALKS positions Julie Poitras Santos as artist-as-curator, who has included fifteen artists and practitioners who’ll be leading walks, giving lectures, discussing readings, and presenting video works through August 14.

Jenna Crowder August 4, 2016 Initiatives, Studio Visits, Vol. 1, No. 9: August 2016

A Long Wait for Justice: dance at the end of the world

Performance still from S P E C T A C U L A R B L A C K D E A T H, 2016. Photo by Erin Colleen Johnson.
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Lia Wilson reviews the site-specificity and flattening of time of S P E C T A C U L A R B L A C K D E A T H as part of the series A Long Wait.

Lia Wilson July 28, 2016 Initiatives, Reviews, Vol. 1, No. 8: June/July 2016

Rewriting An Unrealized History of War: Fortress Brass on Fort Gorges

Photo courtesy Ken Ueno.
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Ken Ueno’s Fortress Brass employs the musical and architectural languages of wartime to imagine a friendlier, more beautiful alternative.

Jenna Crowder July 21, 2016 Initiatives, Vol. 1, No. 8: June/July 2016

Predicting Future Weather: an interview with Anna Wolfe-Pauly & Erin Colleen Johnson

Anna Wolfe-Pauly, Future Weather, 2016.
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“You can’t push it away. You can’t go under. You have to be in it.” Anna Wolfe-Pauly and Erin Colleen Johnson talk about Wolfe-Pauly’s project for the series A Long Wait happening on Fort Gorges this summer.

Jenna Crowder July 8, 2016 Initiatives, Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 8: June/July 2016

Introducing Able Baker Contemporary, Portland’s Newest Artist-Run Gallery

Able Baker Contemporary
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Able Baker Contemporary, a new artist-run space co-founded by Stephen Benenson and Hilary Irons, is set to officially open its doors on April 8 in downtown Portland.

The Chart April 1, 2016 Initiatives, Press Releases, Vol. 1, No. 7: April/May 2016

Poetic + Public: the correspondences of Erased By Us

Irina Skornyakova and meg willing, Erased By Us: Ed Ruscha and Jack Kerouac, 2015.
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Alana Dao talks with artist Irina Skornyakova and writer meg willing about their collaborative correspondence project, Erased By Us.

Alana Dao March 3, 2016 Initiatives, Studio Visits, Vol. 1, No. 6: March 2016

Towing the Green Line: Justin Levesque’s ICELANDx207

Justin Levesque, Bridge: Ship Motions, archival pigment print, 18” x 18”, 2015.
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Benjamin Spalding talks with Justin Levesque about ICELANDx207, a project investigating economic, geographic, and cultural spaces between Maine and Iceland.

Benjamin Spalding January 28, 2016 Initiatives, Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 5: February 2016

Finding Community in Kezar

The Kezar Falls Woolen Mill. Photo by Ben Wilkins.
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The creative community doesn’t just exist in bigger cities — and in a small village, the work might even have a bigger impact. by Marques Bostic

Marques Bostic August 24, 2015 Initiatives, Vol. 1, No. 1: September 2015

Drifting + sharing at The Royal Open

The Royal Open. All images by the author.
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Genevieve Johnson + Douglas W. Milliken’s The Royal Open. documented by Jenna Crowder

Jenna Crowder August 14, 2015 Initiatives, Vol. 1, No. 1: September 2015
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