Tanya Sheehan
Tanya Sheehan is Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College. She is also Principal Investigator of Colby’s inaugural Public Humanistic Inquiry Lab devoted to critical perspectives on race and medicine.
We thus find ourselves in some kind of aftermath, looking ahead but without the consolation of being “after.” The texts and images we have assembled here are, nevertheless, retrospective, insofar as they build upon a project we co-curated in 2022 for the Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment, “Looking After: Conversations on Art and Healing.”3 We cultivated intimacies even while connecting virtually, at a distance; on these pages, we similarly embrace the candor of personal experience, and the heterogeneity of voice as a matter of positionality and also form.
