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This list has been compiled collaboratively by members of the OWS Arts & Labor Alternative Economies group to increase the visibility of an access to existing cooperatively-owned resources and alternative networks available to our community.
This is a living document. Print version will be updated every 6 months. To submit updates, please e-mail owsartsandlabor@gmail.com
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Moving Towards Community Benefit: Shifting the Paradigm
by Roberta UnoOCT 2017 | Art
Across America, more people in the cultural community are coming to understand why racial justice and equity matter. Of course, this is not a new issue for many; but the current “woke” moment catalyzed by the daily assaults on democracy—and the prospect of catastrophic consequences beyond four years of a Trump presidency—make it impossible for all but the most insular to remain complacent. Last week in Los Angeles, a group of Latina women arts leaders spoke with me about the handful of Latino arts institutions that are more than four decades old.
Readings, resources, and audiovisual material
by Diana CoryatRIVER RAIL | River Rail
For this issue of the River Rail Lauren Bon of Metabolic Studio asked me to recommend readings, resources, and audiovisual texts related to various interconnected themes
Artschwager’s Interest in Arthur Wesley Dow and ‘Arts and Crafts’ c.1900: A Documentation
by Joseph MasheckJUNE 2018 | In Memoriam
I have long admired Richard’s furniture sculptures as way smarter than they look. That is only possible if a work of art carries some implicit intellectual baggage; and it turns out that a vital basis of many of the furniture works concerns Artschwager’s interest in the early modernism of the American Arts and Crafts movement.
Spaces Together: Alternative Sites for Bay Area Arts
by Sophia WangNOV 2017 | Critics Page
I moved to the Bay Area from New York City in 2000, and went straight to the places producing underground music as entry points into arts communities where I’d feel most at home. In New York in the ‘90s, I’d found these communities at techno parties downtown, escaping the New Jersey suburb where I’d lived as a teen and the Morningside Heights dorms where I’d spent my years at Columbia.
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