Articles
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A Message from Incoming Executive Director
I am honored to take on the role of Executive Director for Pen + Brush and look forward to building on our successful strategies of mentoring artists and writers while giving them the sustained institutional support that allows them to test and expand their vision and sharpen their professional skills. As you may already know in…
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sloan leo on Community Design and “A Watermelon for Leo”
Sloan Leo believes there is no design without community, and no purpose without justice. This fall, their “A Watermelon for Leo” is on view at Pen + Brush in New York.
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Just a Moment from Pen + Brush In Print No. 1
Pen + Brush has been closed for 17 weeks. That’s a long time. We mourn the creative work that couldn’t be in our space: the art on the walls, the words on the page. And we miss you, our friendly, enthusiastic public. In lieu of a new issue of In Print in person, I want to share a…
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Response to Black Lives Matter Movement
Pen + Brush has thought and felt much regarding the tragedy of systematic racism, brutality, and sustained violation of black Americans and the subsequent movement, protests, and events that came together over this past week. We are overwhelmed with anger and sadness for the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade…
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Letter to White Women from Pen + Brush In Print No. 3
One of my favorite photos from Pen + Brush’s writing events is of Celine Aenlle-Rocha reading at the launch of Pen + Brush In Print Number 3 on June 20, 2019. Celine’s pink hair matches the pink cover of the edition (you can’t see this, in the photo, but when you take a look at the issue her…
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Artist Resources
Artist Resources, COVID-19: https://www.format.com/magazine/resources/art/websites-to-submit-creative-work Grants / Funding http://www.harpofoundation.org/apply/grants-for-visual-artists/ https://www.stoneleafretreat.com/residency https://ready.haatx.com/covid-19#artistgrants https://artdeadline.comhttps://creative-capital.org/2020/03/13/list-of-arts-resources-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/ https://aamd.org/our-members/from-the-field/museums-and-covid-19 https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-offers-emergency-relief-funding-cultural-institutions-affected-coronavirus https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q4BHgMRKO3W6-gRpGPB6EFXFfvyDLGaCsj7kny7CTG4/edit https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/ https://ilysm.com https://artistreliefproject.org/request_funding/ Freelance Artists Resources: https://covid19freelanceartistresource.wordpress.com Regular emergency grants that are ongoing: https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/grants National Crowdfunding & Collective Action Efforts The below are new funds set up specifically to relieve artists in financial crisis as a result of COVID-19. We cannot…
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Our First Remote Book Launch
The broadcast is supposed to start at 7:00, and at 7:01 author Barbara Linn Probst and I are in the virtual studio of a broadcasting software program neither of us are very familiar with, trying to get her sound turned on. “Disaster!” Barbara texts me in despair. We are both nervous. A few (very long)…
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Online Community
Pen + Brush is still working. We continue to advise our underserved and under-recognized community of artists and writers on how to continue their work. We continue to create exposure and network connections within the new expanded online communities that are now more relevant than ever. Our staff is also working to create new engaging online…
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Introducing the Pen + Brush Blog
Usually when I write to anonymous readers about Pen + Brush, it’s in the editorial note at the beginning of an issue of Pen + Brush In Print. In fact, I was expecting to be doing that now: to be writing to you – all of you, whoever you are – to introduce you to a…
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A Disrupted Inheritance
With the threat of statelessness looming, the artist kept true to form, and her citizenship status immediately became one of her materials, as in when she pinned images of her family to her chest with acupuncture needles, in a performance which she called “Recuérdame,” or “Remember Me,” performed at Pen + Brush.
