A Blade of Grass Magazine

A magazine about art and social engagement
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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

The inauguration of the People’s Parliament of Rojava in Dêrik.

Other Ways to Govern

Laura Raicovich, Issue Guest Editor

Students of all ranks participate in the ritual of cleaning the dojo

A Tale of Two Dojos: An Allegory About Institutional Integrity

Deborah Fisher, Executive Director of A Blade of Grass

The inauguration of the People’s Parliament of Rojava in Dêrik.

Art of the Stateless State

Jonas Staal

a campaign to buy debt for pennies on the dollar, with a variety show and telethon in 2012.

Debt as Power: From Shame to Possibility

Thomas Gokey & Laura Hanna in Conversation

A Maskoke child holds tomatoes grown in the Ecovillage greenhouses. Residents grow vegetables based on the traditional diets of their ancestors.

A Radical Re-settlement: Walking the Talk on Indigeneity

Marcus Briggs-Cloud

Locals and tourists heavily traffic La Rambla, a 1.2 kilometer pedestrian street running through Barcelona’s city center.

Meet the Progressive Consultancy Cooperative Helping Barcelona

Miguel Robles-Durán in Conversation with Gala Pin and Laia Forné

A map showing the area encompassed by the Río de la Plata drainage basin.

A River Basin as Governance Lab

Raquel de Anda and Alejandro Meitin in Conversation

"End the Debt! Decolonize! Liberate Puerto Rico!" a hand-illustrated scroll over 170 feet long and 3 inches wide

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

Photo of A Blade of Grass Magazine Issue #3

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

Sins Invalid performance featuring Nomy Lamm and Cara Page.

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

Practicing Life: A Blade of Grass’ New Magazine

By Deborah Fisher, Executive Director, A Blade of Grass

ABOG Magazine

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

Multiple Views

Why Make Gardens with People in Solitary Confinement?

By Jan Cohen-Cruz and Claire Tancons

Suzanne Lacy

“Where Are We and What Time Is It?”
On Beginning to Curate Suzanne Lacy

By Dominic Willsdon

Beyond Groceries

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