Julie Poitras Santos’ PLATFORM PROJECTS/WALKS: ecologies of the local offered artist-led walks for the public to get closer to the ecologies of which they are a part. Elyse Grams reflects on six of the walks she attended and what she learned about the land, its history, and herself.
climate change
Hilary Irons finds a major theme of empathy and connection in the work of seven graduates from Maine College of Art’s MFA program, highlighting how artists are responding to the precarity and isolation of the world and setting out to change it.
Julie Poitras Santos reflects on monument, labor, and silence in Daniela Rivera’s recent exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum.
Megan Grumbling previews two short films by Mariangela Ciccarello and Philip Cartelli that trace geologic and migratory histories in the Mediterranean.
Donna Haraway shows us we need new ideas and new ways of thinking, new kinds of stories to think with, because the old ones are failing us. by Julie Poitras Santos
The philosophical movement that has garnered the greatest attention and engaged most thoroughly with the present culture is speculative realism. Skye Priestley explores the components of speculative realist thought and ties them to the logos of current cultural production in Maine.