Nancy Azara, a New York artist who runs creativity workshops and caucus member, was quoted in an article in The Wall Street journal on April 16, 2007. The article is entitled “Executive adopts motto for job stress” and Nancy suggests how to find your inner creativity.
Jeffery Byrd recently presented a performance in Cardiff Art in Time Festival in Wales. Byrd was only one of two artists from the U.S. in the festival which featured artists from the U.K., France, Japan, Israel, and Uruguay. Byrd’s video work was also recently shown at the Springtides Festival in Selzau, Germany, the Eject Festival at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico, and at the “For the First Five” European Film Festival in Neubrandenberg, Germany.
Nick Cave was a recipient of a $15,000 Artadia Award from Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialogue. cf Art in America, Feb. 2007, p. 62
The archives of Vaginal Crème Davis are to be deposited at the Getty Center.
The “Downtown Show” organized by the Grey Art Gallery at New York University was selected “Best Thematic Museum Show in New York City” by the American Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics.
Laurie Toby Edison completed the photographs for her Women in Japan Project. The newest photographs will be going up on www.laurietobyedison.com and some from this and her other series were exhbited in the spring at Back to the Picture, San Francisco.
Roberto Ferrari’s first novel Pierce was published this spring by Southern Tier Editions of Harrington Park Press, the trade division of Haworth Press (see bibliography for full citation).
The archives of Barbara Gittings, lesbian activist, writer and editor who died in February, have been deposited at the New York Public Library. Her papers along with the photographs and writings of her life partner Kay Tobin Lahusen will form the Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs at the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street.
Barbara Hammer’s “Lover other” was screened at Aperture Gallery, New York on May 11th. The last showing was followed by a panel discussion with Shelly Rice, Andrea Scott, and Barbara Hammer, and then a live performance by JD Samson a/k/a Jocelyn Samson and drag king Murray Hill.
Harmony Hammond has a new email address: lalanera@harmonyhammond.com
Jenni Sorkin received a research grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity , and Design at the University of North Carolina, Hendersonville. The grant will support her dissertation research on how post-war American studio craft provided a vital arena for women as teachers, thinkers, and makers, considering the confluence of gender, craft, pedagogy, and modernist discourse in studio ceramics, 1945-1965.
Jim Van Buskirk reports that several writing projects are seeing the light of day. Identity envy: wanting to be who we’re not, co-edited with Jim Tushinski, has been published, and Love, Castro Street: reflections of San Francisco, co-edited with Katherine Forrest, is due in the spring. He will update the “Places to stay” section and contribute a “Reel San Francisco” section to the 2008 edition of Fodor’s San Francisco guidebook. jimvanbuskirk.com
Jonathan Weinberg was artist-in-residence at the Addison Art Gallery at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachus etts. While there, he painted 18 portraits of current faculty, students, and staff. cf. www.jonathanweinberg.com
Oxford University Press is working on The Grove encyclopedia of American art, to be edited by Joan Marter, Rutgers. Potential contributors are encouraged to send their complete contact information and areas of expertise to Christine Kuan, senior editor, at christine.kuan@oup.com.
Robert Summers would like to start a “Queer Studies Reading/Discussion Group” -- in person, online, and/or podcast. Interested parties should contact Robert at robtsum@ucla.edu [now established as a blog at http://queerstudiesreadinggroup.blogspot.com/]