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A Blade of Grass Magazine
A magazine about art and social engagement
Issue 5 is now live! Access your free digital copy:
Issue 5: Confronting Enemies
Enemy Territory
Daniel Tucker, Issue Guest Editor
Concepts and Practices of Justice: Experiences from the Mesa de Escrache
Grupo de Arte Callejero
Un-Settling the Colonial Impulse: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Engage Plymouth
Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger & Prerana Reddy in Conversation
Names Not Lost: Racial Terror Lynching, Past and Present
Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza
Whose Monuments: Scenes of Tearing Down, Building Up, and Thinking Through
Daniel Tucker, Issue Guest Editor
Reclaiming Pepe: Documenting How a Hate Symbol Gets Made and Unmade
Arthur Jones & Michael Premo in Conversation
Changing the Narrative on Childhood Sexual Abuse
Amita Swadhin
9 Theses on Pandemic and Reproductive Labor
Carol Zou
Issue 4: Governance Reimagined
Other Ways to Govern
Laura Raicovich, Issue Guest Editor
A Tale of Two Dojos: An Allegory About Institutional Integrity
Deborah Fisher, Executive Director of A Blade of Grass
Art of the Stateless State
Jonas Staal
Debt as Power: From Shame to Possibility
Thomas Gokey & Laura Hanna in Conversation
A Radical Re-settlement: Walking the Talk on Indigeneity
Marcus Briggs-Cloud
Meet the Progressive Consultancy Cooperative Helping Barcelona
Miguel Robles-Durán in Conversation with Gala Pin and Laia Forné
A River Basin as Governance Lab
Raquel de Anda and Alejandro Meitin in Conversation
Organizing Mutual Solidarity Projects as an Act of Resistance in Puerto Rico
Jorge Díaz Ortiz
Maps Not Manifestos
Kathryn McKinney
For Techno-Colored Girls Who Imagined Afrofutures When Black History Wasn’t Enough
Li Sumpter
Issue 3: Artists Challenging Normativity
Artists Challenging Normativity
Introduction to
A Blade of Grass Magazine
Issue #3
Prerana Reddy, Director of Programs, A Blade of Grass
Deep Space Mind: Designing and Documenting Mental Wellness in Community
Ras Cutlass
Disability Arts: From the Social Model to the Affirmative Model
Colin Cameron, Reprinted from 2011
Artistry and Activism: Building Movement for Disability Justice
Kevin Gotkin
Envisioning Future Selves: Reclaiming Identity After Incarceration
Brian Karl
Getting Creative About Affordable Housing in Skid Row
Jeremy Liu interviews Anna Kobara, Henriëtte Brouwers, John Malpede, and Rosten Woo
Collaborative Art Through Immigrant Resistance and Solidarity
Sara Angel Guerrero-Rippberger in conversation with Sol Aramendi
Ask an Artist: Mary Mattingly Answers Your Questions
Mary Mattingly
The Art Institution as Nuclear Reactor
Deborah Fisher, Executive Director, A Blade of Grass
Issue 2: Who
Who Makes Socially Engaged Art?
Introduction to
A Blade of Grass Magazine
Issue #2
By Jan Cohen-Cruz, Director of Field Research, A Blade of Grass
City as Partner: Three Artists on Collaborating with Government Agencies
Rachel Barnard, Rad Pereira, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles
The Art of Golden Repair: Youth, Police, and Horses Upend the Politics of Care
By Melanie Crean
Curating as Caring: Tending to Partnerships Between Artists and Communities
Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of The Showroom, London, interviewed by Jan Cohen-Cruz
Stay, Listen, Organize: Bridging Appalachia’s Past and Present through Sound
By Robert Sember
Toy Soldiers and Parking Lots: Participatory Theater with White Rural Virginians
By Trey Hartt and ashley sparks
Evolving the Institution: Who Belongs?
By Deborah Fisher, Executive Director, A Blade of Grass
Reprint:
The Roosevelt, Dancing
By Liz Lerman
Ask an Artist:
Dread Scott Answers Your Questions
Issue 1: Where
Practicing Life: A Blade of Grass’ New Magazine
By Deborah Fisher, Executive Director, A Blade of Grass
Location and Socially Engaged Art:
Introduction to Issue # 1
By Jan Cohen-Cruz, Director of Field Research, A Blade of Grass
The Poetic Residue: On the Difference Between a Civic Action and an Art Project
Jan Cohen-Cruz in conversation with Rick Lowe
Why Make Gardens with People in Solitary Confinement?
By Jan Cohen-Cruz and Claire Tancons
“Where Are We and What Time Is It?”
On Beginning to Curate Suzanne Lacy
By Dominic Willsdon
The Future of Creative Placemaking
Michael Rohd interviews Roberto Bedoya, Maria Rosario Jackson, and Jamie Bennett
Reprint:
This Is Art? The Alienation of the Avant Garde from the Audience*
By Lucy Lippard
Ask an Artist:
Brett Cook Answers Your Questions