I’m excited to share news that writer and curator Nicole J. Caruth and I are recipients of a 2019 Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The yearlong grant will fund the creation and development of a new collaborative blog called The Ostracon, which will launch at theostracon.net in the first half of 2020.

The Ostracon will look at figures and ideas outside the mainstream of contemporary art—from public policy, indigenous rights, and folklore to community organizing, historic preservation, environmental science, journalism, and food justice—that may offer insight into new forms of making and art that’s more responsive, relevant, and connected to the way we live now as individuals and communities. Taking its name from the pottery shards used in ancient Athens when voting to ostracize community members, the site aims to celebrate, instead of push out, voices from art’s periphery.

Press:

ARTnews
Artforum
e-flux
Glasstire
Stanford Department of Art & Art History