Artwork: Father by James Everett Stanley

Laura Pegram

April 26, 2023

Artwork: Father by James Everett Stanley

James Everett Stanley (b. 1975, Waltham, MA) lives and works in Wellfleet, MA — he received a MFA from Columbia University and is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is an Assistant Professor of Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work is part of the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Chantel Kelly

April 26, 2023

On Mohican Land, Thinking About my Ancestors by J. Mae Barizo

Chantel Kelly

April 26, 2023

On Mohican Land, Thinking About my Ancestors by J. Mae Barizo

I listened to my old life played out in analog. / Performers juxtaposed against the blue. / Pitch fork, clover, the swallows. / Is it too much to occupy one’s own architecture, a density of voids? / Stretched canvas, sharp tools oscillating. / Men putting up gutters, brush hogging the yard.

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