Mary Tremonte and V Adams join us to talk about the Queer Ecology Hanky Project - a program and exhibition with a new book that explores the intersection of sexuality, queer theory, biology, and the environment. Tremonte and Adams expand on the project's themes, their personal connections to hankies, and how foraging in the woods evolved into an evolving community art project.

Queer Ecology Hanky Project is a traveling exhibition and project with over 100 artist bandanas from across North America--from Vancouver to Mexico City--organized by Vanessa Adams and Mary Tremonte. Recent exhibitions of the project showcase a diverse array of artist responses to Queer Ecology—an area of inquiry that unites the study of biology, environment, and sexuality with a framework of queer theory–and a wide spectrum of print mediums and methods. The Queer Ecology Hanky Project has been exhibited at Zygote Press in Cleveland, Ohio, Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine, the Irma Freeman Center for Imagination in Pittsburgh, PA, and the White Page Gallery in Minneapolis, MN in collaboration with the risograph residency at The Future.

Links

Queer Ecology Hanky Project: https://hankyexhibit.bigcartel.com/

https://www.instagram.com/hankysituation/

Mary Tremonte: https://www.marymacktremonte.org/

V Adams: https://vanessascholaradams.com/

Exuberant Possibilities: https://booklyn.org/catalog/exuberant-possibilities/

Eureka! House: https://www.instagram.com/eureka_mindspace/

Bruce Bagemihl’s Biological Exuberance: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312253776/biologicalexuberance

The Science Underground: Mycology as a Queer Discipline: https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/33523#:~:text=In%20this%20work%2C%20we%20argue,and%20unworthy%20of%20formal%20investigation.

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Artist, archivist, and educator, Sauda Mitchell joins us to look at the intersections of marginalized students, archives, space engagement, and critical analysis of primary sources, and how she's merging art, education, and archival practice into one profession.

Sauda Mitchell is an American multidisciplinary artist, archivist, and educator from Winston-Salem, NC. Utilizing artists' books as a medium, her work investigates complex issues centered around the African American experience. Her work explores the intersections of printmaking, archival research, and QR code technology as a creative non-traditional access method linking viewers to archival repositories, curated exhibitions, and aggregated data. Each work serves as a visual response to archival collection materials representative of the many stories that can be found deep within the archival landscape.

Mitchell holds an Associate of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of Phoenix, a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Art with a minor in Art History from the Savannah College of Art and Design, a Master’s in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archival Studies from Drexel University, and is certified by the Academy of Certified Archivists.

She is currently a doctoral student at Drexel University in the Educational Leadership and Management Program. Her research centers around marginalized student access to archives-based engagement in support of primary source critical analysis as a catalyst for elevated cognitive development.

Her artists' books and prints can be found in private and public library and museum collections around the country including Harvard University, Telfair Museums, SCAD Museum of Art, Smithsonian, and Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies.

Links

Sauda's website: https://www.saudamitchell.com/

Sauda on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saudamitchell/

Never Forget: https://booklyn.org/catalog/never-forget-1/

More work by Sauda Mitchell at Booklyn: https://booklyn.org/artists/sauda-mitchell/

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Hannah Brancato (Baltimore, MD) and Lorena Kourousias (NYC) of The Monument Quilt Project join us to talk about creating public rituals of healing, undoing white supremacy culture, and how they transformed what started as an art project into a movement.

The Monument Quilt, a project of Baltimore and Mexico City-based FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, is a collection of more than 3,000 stories by survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence and our allies, written, painted, and stitched onto red fabric. These stories literally blanket highly public, outdoor places to create and demand space to heal, and resist a singular narrative about sexual violence. The culminating display was May 31 – June 2, 2019, on the National Mall in Washington, DC. This was the only time that the quilt was displayed in its entirety.

The Monument Quilt was launched in 2013, and over six years FORCE collected nearly 3,000 squares of the quilt with messages of affirmation and stories from survivors. We partnered with over 100 organizations across the US and in Mexico, to organize 50 Quilt displays in 33 different cities. Cities include (in order from most recent): Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Madison, NJ; Houston, TX; Athens, OH; Fort Belvoir, VA; Towson, MD; Mexico City, Mexico; San Francisco, CA; El Paso, TX; Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Santa Barbara, CA; Valley Center, CA; Tempe, AZ; Tulsa, OK; Fort Hood, TX; Annapolis, MD; Fort Meade, MD; Washington, DC; Nashville, TN; Jacksonville, FL; Oklahoma City, OK; Middleton, CT; Queens, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Durham, NC; Oshkosh, WI; Chicago, IL; White River, SD; Quapaw, OK; Des Moines, IA; Baton Rouge, LA; Birmingham, AL; Arden, NC.

Links

The Monument Quilt Project: https://themonumentquilt.org/

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture: https://upsettingrapeculture.com/

FORCE on Instagram @upsettingrapeculture

Hannah Brancato: https://www.hannahbrancato.com/ @Hannah.brancato

Mixteca: https://www.mixteca.org/

The Monument Quilt Project Box Set: https://booklyn.org/catalog/monument-quilt-project/

How to Self Care (zine): https://booklyn.org/catalog/force-how-to-self-care/

Thrive Zine: https://booklyn.org/catalog/force-thrive-zine/

Thrive Thrive Thrive (zine): https://booklyn.org/catalog/force-thrive-thrive-thrive/

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In Booklyn Calling’s first episode, NYC-based multimedia artist Zoe Beloff joins in to talk about her 5ft x 130ft history painting recording the horrors of the Trump regime. It was inspired by her post-inaugural rage as well as the materiality of the hand-painted protest sign. Beloff shares insights into her work, her influences, her process, and where she fits into the world as a working artist.

Zoe Beloff is a visual artist and filmmaker. She aims to make art that both entertains and provokes discussion. With a focus on social justice, she draws timelines between past and present to imagine a more egalitarian future. Zoe’s work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; including the Whitney Museum Biennale, Site Santa Fe, the M HKA museum in Antwerp, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. However, she particularly enjoys working in alternative venues that are free and open to the community for events and conversations. These have included in New York City; The Coney Island Museum, Participant, Momenta, and The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Zoe’s website: http://www.zoebeloff.com/

Zoe on Instagram @zoebeloff

Parade of the Old New: https://booklyn.org/catalog/parade-of-the-old-new/

Reminiscences of a Refugee Childhood: https://booklyn.org/catalog/reminiscences-of-a-refugee-childhood/

Between Worlds: http://www.zoebeloff.com/pages/between.html

HIAS Charity: https://www.hias.org/

The Allegory of Good and Bad Government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Allegory_of_Good_and_Bad_Government

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