Welcome!

This email has

• pop up event this Sunday, Sep. 3, 2pm - 5pm
• New project with Annette, Let's Talk
• New project - Selfitudes
• Updates in my long-running Open Letters to the Men of Craigslist Project
• Mixed Blood 12x12 Project Video of the disabilities set
• Chronicles of the Chronic, curated by Zoe Cinel, Jury: me, Keisha Williams, Victor Montori, M.D. opens at Rochester Art Center
• Teaching several Work of Art classes this fall, including one on the road in greater Minnesota.
• Consults, Consults, Consults!

Pop Up Collage and Zine Event Sunday in Minneapolis tomorrow!

A-Mill Artists Lofts First Floor Main Street 315 SE Main St #623 Minneapolis, MN 55414 2pm to 5pm in Minneapolis 3:15pm Reading from zines and new project Selfitudes Eventbrite has a donation option, however, all are welcome. More details on the Facebook Event as well.

This is a great chance to see more of my work, both original collage, zines, and prints. I will be holding these more often, often on a casual pop up basis. If you miss this one, there will be others. Also, if you're unable to make the pop up please check out my online store.

Selfitudes

I now have a newsletter on Substack called Selfitudes. This is a space for explorations of photography, culture, and identity in broad strokes through the personal, the news, and monuments of art history. Please check it out. I also will be reading from parts of it at the pop up tomorrow.

Let's Talk with Annette and Alison

My friend Annette and I are creating conversations about stigmatized topics. We just recorded our first episode and it is beautiful. It's not live quite yet, but will be very soon, and the link above will lead you there.

New Stories on the Craigslist Personals Coming Soon

New stories about the Craigslist personals are coming soon to my Patreon. I will also be doing some refiguring to support tiers for this project. One of the most exciting parts of these new stories, is that they will (at least in part) be publicly available and not just hidden behind a paywall. The most powerful part of this project to me has always been the conversations it sparks, so more of that soon!

Mixed Blood Theatre's 12x12 Festival has Wrapped, but you can still see the video of our performance

For this festival highlighting 12 different community with 12 different artist liaisons I worked with other members of the disability community to make a brief theater piece.

Chronicles of the Chronic, curated by Zoe Cinel, Jury: me, Keisha Williams, Victor Montori, M.D. opens at Rochester Art Center

There is a reception September 10, 1 -4 pm with Art activities, tours led by the curator, the jurors and the artists and light refreshments. I'm so proud to be part of jury for this exhibition and very excited for it to be up until April 3, 2024.

Work of Art Classes This Fall

With the rest of the Springboard for the Arts workshop facilitation team, I'll be teaching lots of Work of Art classes this fall. There are online and in-person options coming up.

Get your Consults for Individual Artists!!!

Do you have questions about how best to move your practice forward? Thoughts about a project but aren't certain about all aspects? Do you want some encouragement? Do you know someone these questions apply to? If so, you, (or they) might want to book a consultation with me or one of my colleagues on the Artist Career Consultant Roster at Springboard for the Arts. Please take a look through the roster if this is something that interests you.

Thanks for being interested in my work, and I look forward to sharing more of it soon!

Warmly,
Alison