# artist statement (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover artist statement. Page: Feed: --- ## [All the Question Marks Began Singing: An Interview with John Skoyles](https://pshares.org/ps/all-the-question-marks-begin-sining-an-interview-with-john-skoyles/) _2026-08-17 · Jenny Molberg · Ploughshares_ In this interview, Editor-in-Chief Jenny Molberg speaks with former Ploughshares Poetry Editor and Interim Editor-in-Chief John Skoyles about balancing editing and writing, championing emerging writers, and navigating the challenges of writing from personal experience. The conversation concludes with a reading of one of Skoyles’s poems. Since 2007, John Skoyles served as Ploughshares’ Poetry… ## [PRC Fall 2026 Internships : Now Accepting Applications](https://www.prcboston.org/prc-fall-2026-internships-now-accepting-applications/) _2026-08-10 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ The Photographic Resource Center (PRC) is seeking three interns for the Fall of 2026 to assist with gallery sitting, administrative tasks, social media management, and exhibition preparation and installation. This internship is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a nonprofit photography center, working directly on exhibitions, artist relations, and digital outreach. ## [EXPOSURE 2026](https://www.prcboston.org/exposure-2026/) _2026-07-31 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ Now celebrating its 30th year, the EXPOSURE Members' Juried Exhibition honors three decades of showcasing exceptional work by PRC members. ## [Anastasia Sierra](https://www.prcboston.org/anastasia-sierra/) _2026-07-31 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ The Witching Hour ARTIST STATEMENT I become a mother and stop sleeping through the night. Years go by, my child sleeps soundly in his bed but I still wake at… Read More » Anastasia Sierra ## [Chantal Zakari](https://www.prcboston.org/chantal-zakari/) _2026-07-31 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ ARTIST STATEMENT I am an interdisciplinary artist, designer and an art educator. My work is project based. I draw from academic research as much as intuitive explorations in the graphic… Read More » Chantal Zakari ## [Paul Cary Goldberg](https://www.prcboston.org/paul-cary-goldberg/) _2026-07-31 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ Everything Lasts A Lifetime ARTIST STATEMENT An exploration of, and expressions of, the intense emotions generated by experiences of death, love, loss,loneliness, longing, hope, and the passage of time. ## [Mav Fernandez](https://www.prcboston.org/bryan-mav-fernandez/) _2026-07-31 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ Between Them ARTIST STATEMENT I have always been fascinated by siblings. As an only child, I have no personal understanding of what it means to have a brother or sister.… Read More » Mav Fernandez ## [Grady Thomas](https://www.prcboston.org/grady-thomas/) _2026-07-31 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ Once in a lullaby ARTIST STATEMENT These photographs were made during the last weeks of my maternal grandparents’ lives. I reflexively brought my camera as I worked with family and… Read More » Grady Thomas ## [Hannah Altman](https://www.prcboston.org/hannah-altman-2/) _2026-07-31 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ ARTIST STATEMENT Drawing largely on Yiddish literature, We Will Return to You considers how storytelling is translated andtransformed through photographs by evoking the enigmatic, ritualistic, and layered world of Jewish… Read More » Hannah Altman ## [Margo Cooper](https://www.prcboston.org/margo-cooper/) _2026-07-31 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ ARTIST STATEMENT Life in rural America is not easy. I know from my work as a Public Defender, court appointed attorney and guardian ad litem that many families are living… Read More » Margo Cooper ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ibGlo2WzHa8n) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Daniel Jackson](https://www.prcboston.org/daniel-jackson/) _2026-07-31 · Ravneet\_Marwaha · Photographic Resource Center_ Evy ARTIST STATEMENT In early 2022, just as our family (like so many) began to feel that Covid might be over, my seven-year-old niece Evy was diagnosed with cancer. Twelve… Read More » Daniel Jackson ## [A Celebration of Love Poetry Reading](https://pshares.org/ps/a-celebration-of-love-poetry-reading/) _2026-07-17 · Ploughshares Staff · Ploughshares_ On June 26, 2026, Ploughshares hosted a reading and celebration of LGBTQIA+ love poems published in the journal, featuring readings from Kelli Russell Agodon, Chen Chen, Eileen Myles, Jacques J. Rancourt, Jaz Sufi, and Mark Wunderlich. The event was co-hosted by Ploughshares’ Editor-in-chief Jenny Molberg and Senior Reader Kit Freeman. The post A Celebration of Love Poetry Reading appeared first… ## [The Archive is Queer: A Ploughshares Retrospective](https://pshares.org/ps/the-archive-is-queer-a-ploughshares-retrospective/) _2026-07-17 · Kit Freeman · Ploughshares_ The academy often advocates for historically canonical poets—poetic landmarks of sorts, like Eliot, Pound, or Milton—but queer writers have been known to build their own landmarks. In contemporary poetry, for example, Jericho Brown’s Duplex subverts traditional received forms like the pantoum and the sonnet, which, in his words, builds “a gesture towards home.” Other poets might... The post The… ## [“The Context of Us”: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado](https://pshares.org/ps/the-context-of-us-an-interview-with-carmen-maria-machado/) _2026-06-15 · Hayley Pisciotti · Ploughshares_ As readers, we pride ourselves on curating our personal libraries because they visually represent the collection of genres, forms, and authors we admire most. My bookshelf is a disorganized rainbow of dark-spined British literature anthologies, vibrant blue-green-white contemporary paperbacks, and yellowing copies of my favorites, including Little Women, The Secret History, and The Handmaid’s… ## [Spring 2026 Issue Launch Party](https://pshares.org/ps/spring-2026-issue-launch-party/) _2026-05-14 · Ploughshares Staff · Ploughshares_ In April 2026, we hosted Gabrielle Bates, Jane Huffman, Jenna Le, Karen Winn, and Annie Finch for a reading at Trident Booksellers in celebration of our Spring 2026 launch. Filming and editing by Jonny Ulasien. The post Spring 2026 Issue Launch Party appeared first on Ploughshares . ## [Blurrist](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/blurrist) _2026-04-26 · Wendy Wei · Wendy’s Substack_ Against Clarity ## [Recovery as Resistance: Rolando Cárdenas, Shreela Ray, and Peter Huchel](https://pshares.org/ps/recovery-as-resistance/) _2026-04-15 · Martin Rock · Ploughshares_ Ploughshares is excited to announce our new partnership with The Unsung Masters Series. The Unsung Masters Series, supported by The University of Houston, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, and Pleiades, publishes and distributes one book a year that showcases an important writer who has been unjustly neglected and/or whose work is currently out of print. Each... The post Recovery as Resistance: Rolando… ## [Alice Hoffman on Reading and Writing about St. Teresa of Ávila](https://pshares.org/ps/alice-hoffman-on-reading-and-writing-about-st-teresa/) _2026-03-25 · Alice Hoffman · Ploughshares_ I went to the Divinity School because I have no faith. I didn’t lose it. I never had it. I don’t believe in politics or in religion, in God or angels. I don’t believe in families or in friendship. I don’t believe in unconditional love. I don’t believe in love at all. That is, as... The post Alice Hoffman on Reading and Writing about St. Teresa of Ávila appeared first on Ploughshares . ## [Losing My Maps](https://pshares.org/ps/ps-losing-my-maps/) _2026-03-15 · Bonnie Friedman · Ploughshares_ “You are too nice,” Kathryn Harrison once said to me. Or perhaps what she said was, “You are very nice!” but to me it sounded like the same thing. I admired and admire Kathryn. She is an astonishing writer and an astonishing soul. Several years ago, she guest-edited an issue of Ploughshares, and she devoted it... The post Losing My Maps appeared first on Ploughshares . ## [Artist Statement](https://www.threadings.io/artist-statement/) _2026-02-21 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Thread (n.) Fine cord of a fibrous material; used in needlework a thin seam, vein, or fissure filled with ore \[natural rock or sediment containing one or more valuable minerals\] something continuous or drawn out a method of styling hair indigenous to the African continent Thread (v.) intransitive verb: ## [Try Before You Buy, Risk-Free (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VfhFXDi6NEcZ) _2026-02-21 · **Sponsored**_ Free trial hosting plus refunds processed in 12-24 hours, guaranteed. ## [The Uses of Insanity (an Overture)](https://www.threadings.io/the-uses-of-insanity-an-overture/) _2026-02-16 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Peace Britney Spears, I’m writing this to you because I really don’t want to talk about what happened, but I can tell you what happened. You would get it. Like: you would not "get it" as in you know exactly how I feel. You ## [Poets’ Journals and the Essayists Who Wrote Them](https://pshares.org/ps/poets-journals-and-the-essayists-who-wrote-them/) _2026-02-14 · Ploughshares Staff · Ploughshares_ For our inaugural PS post, please enjoy this conversation with Kathryn Nuernberger, Heidi Czerwiec, and Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh about the evolution of lyric essays as seen in the writing of Maxine Kumin, Annie Dillard, and Toi Derricotte, originally published in Ploughshares and linked below. The post Poets’ Journals and the Essayists Who Wrote Them appeared first on Ploughshares . ## [Re: Being Detained in the United States](https://www.threadings.io/detained/) _2025-12-29 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ SYLLABUS: The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace. TRANSCRIPT BELOW: \[00:08.6\] This reminds me a lot of ## [Transparent Summer (trigger warning: SA)](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/transparent-summer-trigger-warning) _2025-11-21 · Wendy Wei · Wendy’s Substack_ After The Spring of My Life by Kobayashi Issa ## [Eight\* dead in seven weeks.](https://www.threadings.io/eight-dead-in-seven-weeks/) _2025-10-31 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ \*This essay discusses the nature of active, acute grief in my life by the title, “Seven dead in seven weeks.” At the time of writing, I did not know one of my grandmothers had passed away; she died on the sixth of October and I only found out ## [A letter on Metacognition \[ft. a social experiment\]](https://www.threadings.io/a-letter-on-metacognition-ft-a-social-experiment/) _2025-08-27 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Central inquiry: how do we use online apparatuses to organize? from 2023; when a child called Lela made their Black History Month trifold on me. Also: the day I realized the scope of the work is far, far bigger than me. METACOGNITION = THINKING ABOUT THINKING. Purpose in writing upfront: this ## [The strip club did indeed make me bonkers!](https://www.threadings.io/the-strip-club-did-indeed-make-me-bonkers/) _2025-08-13 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Peace. I’m here to talk about money. This essay originally appeared in Former Stripper, Part-Time Visionary, a fundraiser text circulated in order to build a library in the author’s homeplace. The essay has been narrated in full below, edited for an internet-based ## [On Practice by Mao, Blueprints, and the limits of the conscious mind](https://www.threadings.io/on-practice-by-mao-blueprints-and-the-limits-of-the-conscious-mind/) _2025-08-08 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Peace. In the (crucial) process of review, I’ve seen the evolution of my thought. It galvanized me!! Building systems is not just hard work, it is where instant gratification goes to die. I’ve tasked myself in 2025 with building internal and external systems that are capable ## [大学の生活](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/d60) _2025-07-26 · Wendy Wei · Wendy’s Substack_ Posting my emo Japanese essay here, which was an assignment for my undergrad Japanese class. ## [Successful Projects Inevitably Result in Increased Dangers.](https://www.threadings.io/the-financial-transparency-meeting-but-i-yell-instead-of-show-graphs/) _2025-07-16 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Listen to this essay right here! I have not been enraged enough to weep since I started working for free. JULY 2023 JULY 2025 Let it be known that I wrote this little tidbit after I recorded the second video (circulating on Tuesday, July 15 2025) because I already knew ## [Open this .onion address (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WTwy6EWHMX3g) _2025-07-16 · **Sponsored**_ Access 7btj5kisrpopxjkhmcugbiygfk2xd6op3ta7whfrmxxrldyrlh5b5zad.onion using a Tor browser. ## [RESCHEDULE: Financial Transparency Meetings](https://www.threadings.io/financial-transparency-meetings-today/) _2025-07-14 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Peace all— Yeah, my laptop is busted. All the local files I was working on to analyze data for this meeting, I cannot currently see! I am bummed about this. My sincerest apologies. I was hoping to get things fixed over the weekend but it’s looking like ## [Project Feasibility: on Becoming an “algorithmically elected official."](https://www.threadings.io/aqotp-yes-i-do-mean-algorithmically-elected-official/) _2025-07-12 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ I (usually) write about what steals my sleep. Someone on TikTok asked me in a comment: How do you decide what to write about, especially in the United States when something happens every day? And my answer is: I write about what keeps me up at night. I try ## [The Making of a Cyberspace Gift Economy](https://www.threadings.io/the-ismatu-gwendolyn-experiment-risk-love-conduction/) _2025-06-23 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ introductions I have never told this story from beginning to… middle (because here I am, in the thick of things). What a failing that is. Recently, I’ve understood that many of you all thought of my existence as a radical public scholar to be… inevitable? ## [when am I compelled to speak? (ft. Madleen flotilla, Booker, and necessary reorientation)](https://www.threadings.io/when-am-i-compelled-to-speak-ft-madleen-flotilla-booker-and-necessary-reorientation/) _2025-06-11 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ I generally do not take requests. I haven’t felt compelled to write down my thoughts in a very long time. That’s because I was writing (finishing, editing, living amongst, drowning in) this book called small prophecies . It’s out now to humble beginnings& ## [THE WAR IS NOT A METAPHOR: The Capitalist, the Defector, the Traitor, and the Revolutionary](https://www.threadings.io/the-war-is-not-a-metaphor-the-capitalist-the-defector-the-traitor-and-the-revolutionary/) _2025-05-18 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Disclaimer: This was my first live essay, meaning that I taught it with a diagram I drew out for a live audience. If you are one that typically reads or listen to the essays, I would actually recommend giving this one a watch! While screenshots are included throughout the text, ## [再别2024——活在多伦多](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/2024) _2025-04-21 · Wendy Wei · Wendy’s Substack_ 我这篇文章发出的时候，2024年其实已经过了四个月了，也就是三分之一的时光。真的没有人能比我更拖延了(笑 ## [On Targeted Deportations: They hunt in broad daylight.](https://www.threadings.io/they-hunt-in-broad-daylight-2/) _2025-04-06 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Beginning with a journal entry from a few days ago: everything is upside down. I did not know what it would be like to watch my— to witness… people that feel like my own growing flesh vanish in the night. in the afternoon! in the broad, ## [Ismatu Gwendolyn: Class Traitor](https://www.threadings.io/ismatu-gwendolyn-class-traitor-2/) _2025-02-26 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Show Notes: Twenty Enemies by James Forman twenty enemies james forman twenty enemies james forman.pdf 4 MB download-circle the role of the artist is to load the gun you've been traumatized ## [Un-Art Myself](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/un-art-myself) _2025-01-19 · Wendy Wei · Wendy’s Substack_ To Avert the Fine Art Gaze ## [Artist Statement](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/artist-statement) _2025-01-13 · Wendy’s Substack_ When I think of China, I think of love.