I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists

Margaret Jacobs, Akwesasne Mohawk, is an artist, educator and independent curator. A metalsmith who creates fabricated steel sculpture and powdercoated, one-of-a-kind jewelry, her work reflects on kinship to the natural world referencing cultural, historical and personal narratives while exploring the lines of contemporary craft and fine art objects.

Overall, her life has been greatly influenced by rural living and her interest in object making stems from her youth in Northern New York and a constant respect for creating, repairing, refinishing and re-making objects that were vital to survival. Her artistic process involves steel fabrication techniques that intermingle traditional blacksmithing tools and techniques--primarily forging and hot forming with a forge--with more present day metalworking fabrication processes. This is a unique process that makes the steel feel alive and organic.

Jacobs is a 2024 Teaching Artist Cohort and Rural and Traditional Fellowship recipient; a 2024 Native Arts Fellowship through the NMAI Smithsonian; a 2023 Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Research Fellow and a 2019 recipient of the Artist in Business Leadership Award through the First Peoples Fund. She has participated in several artist residencies including at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Sante Fe, NM and Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, MN. Recent exhibitions include solo-shows at the Boise Art Museum in Idaho; Burlington City Arts in Vermont; and Ma’s House in Southampton, NY.

Jacobs attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where she graduated with high honors for her thesis work and received the Perspectives on Design (POD) award.

 

LINKS:

margaretjacobs.com   @margaretofsteel   Artist Shout Out:    Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths, https://www.inclusiveblacksmiths.com/ @inclusive_blacksmiths

 

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On this week's mini episode, I'm reflecting on the importance of resilience, kindness, and being mindful of the impact of emotional expressions on those who have experienced trauma, especially in the context of the recent election and the charged emotions surrounding it.     I Like Your Work Links:    https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/community   Winter Exhibition Deadline: November 15- Apply   Apply for a residency: https://www.chq.org/ 

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Christine Garvey is an artist, coach, and the founder of A Mighty Practice. Her paintings and installations have been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions with Galerie Circulaire (Montreal), International Print Center (New York), and The Contemporary Austin. Garvey’s work has been recognized with a Fulbright Research Grant (2016), a Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center (2020), and an Artist Relief Grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, United States Artists, and Creative Capital (2021).

Over the last 10 years she’s coached hundreds of creatives through the ups and downs of their practices. She writes and speaks about ideas that impact contemporary artists, including scarcity, endurance, and financial stability. Her work has been featured in The Creative Independent, Creative Mornings Global, and Brooklyn Magazine. Learn more about upcoming programs at amightypractice.com or christine-garvey.com.

 

LINKS:

https://www.amightypractice.com/   https://www.christine-garvey.com/   @christine.garvey @amightypractice    

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Thank you to our sponsor Sunlight Tax! Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is collecting donations for artists effected by Hurricane Helene in the Asheville, North Carolina area please donate at her paypal: Sunlight Tax LLC

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On this week's mini episode, I'm chatting about my live class I taught and going over why it's important for artists to set boundaries and how boundaries can fuel creativity by providing more structure and focus. 

 

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Watch the replay of my free live class: Creating Healthy Parameters 

Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is raising money to help support artists effected by Hurricane Helene in Asheville, North Carolina area please donate at her paypal: Sunlight Tax LLC

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Don Kimes' work has been included in more than 150 exhibitions internationally, including Biennale Internazionale di Firenze (Florence, Italy); Global Art Fair (Singapore); Rueda Museum (Madrid); Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum (New York); Burchfield-Penney Museum (Buffalo); ExMoenia (Todi, Italy); Living Art (Milan); America Haus (Munich); Casa di Cultura (Villahermosa, Mexico); Rocca Paolina (Perugia, Italy); AU Katzen Museum (Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC); National Academy of Design (New York); Denise Bibro, Boom Contemporary, Jim Kempner, Frederieke Taylor, Claudia Carr, Kouros, Stephan Gang, Lucky Strike, NY Studio School, Prince Street, and Arsenal galleries, Ammo Artists Space (all New York City); Washington Project for the Arts, Fondo del Sol Galleries, Hillyer Art Space, Sense Gallery, Elizabeth Robert's Gallery, Constitution Hall (all Washington, DC), and many others.

He has received awards to be Scholar in Residence in the Art and Philosophy seminar at the American Academy in Rome; Artist in Residence at SACI in Florence, Italy; to live and work on the Pacific island of Kauai; to spend a year painting near Todi, Italy; a US Department of the Interior award to be artist in residence at Yellowstone; a grant from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes to work in southern Mexico; Eisenhower Foundation support to be a United States Visual Arts representative to the Jurmala Cultural Exchange in the Soviet Union; and studio residency awards from the Millay Foundation; the Assensore di Cultura in Corciano, Italy; the Accademia di Belli Arti in Perugia, Italy, and many others. In 2001 he was a finalist for the position of Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2018 he was named the inaugural Sonkin-Segal Endowed Chair in the Visual Arts at the the Chautauqua Institution, where he had served as the Institution's first Artistic Director in the Visual Arts for more than three decades. During his tenure there he and his wife, Lois Jubeck, built Chautauqua into one of the most respected summer art programs in America (including the Chautauqua School of Art, establishing and building the Fowler-Kellogg and Strohl Art Centers, and expanding the Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture series). Previously he taught for ten years at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village, where he also served as Program Director for six years.

In 2019 Kimes and his wife, Lois Jubeck, established the ACI International Artists, Writers and Scholars Residency program in a 500 year old complex in Corciano, Italy. He continues to serve as Artistic Director there. He is also the Senior Professor in the Visual Arts at American University in Washington, DC, where he served as head of the studio art program for 19 of the past 35 years (and department chair for 11 years). He conceived of and then led this program in a successful campaign raising funds to design and build Washington's 130,000 square foot Katzen Arts Center and museum. Additionally, Kimes is a frequent contributor to Art Lantern/New Art Examiner which currently has editorial staff in New York City, DC, Toronto, Detroit, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Singapore, Hong Kong and other locations internationally.

Kimes has been a guest artist at schools and universities throughout the United States, including Bard, Carnegie-Mellon, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cooper Union, Dartmouth, UC Davis, Harvard, Parsons, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, and many others, as well as academies and universities in Rome, Umbria, Florence, Mexico, Germany and Latvia.

His curatorial practice is extensive, having organized dozens of exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally over the past 30+ years. As an artist, an educator/mentor, and cultural builder he is in his fourth decade as a practicing artist who also teaches: More than 5,000 art students have worked with him directly, and many thousands more indirectly, in the programs he has built and led in New York, Washington, DC, Rome and Umbria.

"Don Kimes divides his time between Italy, New York and Washington, DC. For more than three decades he has worked extensively in western New York State and Umbria - places he goes to have consecutive thoughts in a world where it is increasingly difficult to have the chance to simply focus. In a 1996 catalogue essay for an exhibition of his work in Munich, he wrote about the relationship between nature and culture saying Italy affords the opportunity to think about culture, nature and the passage of time . . . In the end nature takes everything back. Seven years later a flood destroyed his home and studio. He subsequently wrote about the loss of 30 years years of his life's work: paintings, drawings, most of his photos, filing cabinets full of writing, and more. It felt like the record of my existence had been erased. The house and furnishings seemed incidental by comparison. Nature took everything back. Since recovering from that flood my work based on those destroyed images. Through them color, form and structure combine with nature, time, memory, loss, rebirth and meaning."

LINKS:

https://www.donkimes.com/   @donkimes

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Thank you to our sponsor Sunlight Tax! Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is collecting donations for artists effected by Hurricane Helene in the Asheville, North Carolina area please donate at her paypal: Sunlight Tax LLC

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Use the code LIKE on any Sunlight Tax Class or Bootcamp to save $100

 

Sign up for my free class: Creating Healthy Parameters: https://theworksmembership.com/freeclass/

 

Apply for a residency at Chautauqua Visual Arts:

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On this week's mini episode, I'm addressing a common challenge many artists face - the discouragement around the low financial returns compared to the investment required to create art. I'm giving you my perspective on how you can redefine your idea of financial success and some strategies for building sustainable income streams as part of your creative practice. 

 

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Thank you to our sponsor Sunlight Tax! Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is raising money to help support artists effected by Hurricane Helene in Asheville, North Carolina area please donate at her paypal: Sunlight Tax LLC

Check out Hannah's program: Money Bootcamp

Use the code LIKE on any Sunlight Tax Class or Bootcamp to save $100

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Eric Fallen grew up in Hamilton Ontario and moved to NYC in 1998 to study playwriting at Brooklyn College. After completing his MFA, he taught for several years at SUNY, CUNY and Pratt. In 2013, he opened Peninsula on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Launched as a project space for young conceptual artists, Peninsula has evolved into a more traditional gallery with a roster comprised of both emerging and established artists. In 2022, the gallery moved from Brooklyn to 13 Monroe Street on the Lower East Side.

LINKS: 

https://www.peninsulaartspace.com/   www.instagram.com/peninsulanyc   Artist Shout Out:    Jan Baracz @perceptorium Amy Butowicz @amybutowicz Jerry Blackman @jerry_blackman Kevin Darmanie @kevindarmanie Cheryl Donegan @cheryldonegan Graham Durward @graham_durward_studio Georgia Elrod @georgiaelrod Johnny G Mullen @johnnygmullen Mike Olin @mikedallasolin Scott Pfaffman @scottpfaffman    

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Thank you to our sponsor Sunlight Tax! Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is collecting donations for artists effected by Hurricane Helene in the Asheville, North Carolina area please donate at her paypal: Sunlight Tax LLC

  Apply for our Winter Exhibition: deadline is November 15

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On this week's mini episode, I'm giving you a glimpse into how I've been able to have multiple studios and giving you some tips on how you can do it too if you're an artist looking to have more studio space. 

 

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Alex Callender has had solo exhibitions and projects at the Center for the Arts Northeastern University, UMass Contemporary Museum of Art, NYU Gallatin Galleries, Rubber Factory (NY), and Michigan State University’s LookOut Gallery. She has held artist residencies with MacDowell Colony, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Drawing Center’s Open Session program, Art in Embassies Program, The Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Alice Yard in Trinidad, and DRAWinternational and The BAU Institute in France. Raised in NYC, Callender is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Smith College and lives and works in Western Massachusetts.

Alex Callender uses methods of drawings, painting and installation to trace and remap historical materials as a means to explore with both criticality and care, how we might disentangle the interwoven relations of race, gender, and capitalism. Drawing largely from archival sources her work engages the mythic and residual forms of coloniality to think about ways that we orient ourselves to the past; using different visual modes of annotation, hybrid narratives, and speculative storytelling, Callender recontextualizes static (or seemingly fixed) renderings of history to consider their relationship to social forces like scale, time, and memory.

 

LINKS: 

alexcallender.com   @alexiscallender      

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Thank you to our sponsor Sunlight Tax! Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is hosting a free class, Make Taxes Easier and Stash an Extra $130k in Your Savings. It’s one hour, and designed to help you understand why you keep getting stuck in a cycle of pain surrounding taxes, and the simple systems you need to get out of it. It’s on 9/25 at noon Eastern. It’s free, but you need to register: https://go.sunlighttax.com/free

Use the code LIKE on any Sunlight Tax Class or Bootcamp to save $100  

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In this week's mini episode, I'm chatting about what you really need as an artist to grow in your work and why it's so important to surround yourself with like minded people.  I'm also giving you a recap of my summer working as the Artistic Director at Chautauqua Visual Arts.

 

I Like Your Work Links:

https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/community   Winter Exhibition Deadline: November 15- Apply

https://www.chq.org/

Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast

Submit Your Work

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I Like Your Work Podcast

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