FINDING GENE

Did you know FOTOFOLIO printed several photographs by Eugene Pierce as postcards?

FOTOFOLIO is known as the leading publisher of fine art and photographic postcards and collaborated with important photographers and artists of the 20th and 21st century.

Since 1975, FOTOFOLIO has worked closely with artists and their foundations including Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mark Rothko, Nan Goldin, Jean Michel Basquiat, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray just to name a few.

Can you guess which one of these postcards is Gene’s?

Click on grid to find out.

Ceará, Brasil.

SOLAR FOTO FESTIVAL

NOITE SOLAR PROJECTIONS

I have been following from afar this international photography festival that takes place at the tip of the Atlantic, and saw it grow and become more prestigious and recognized with each new edition. And now I received the news that my work DEPRESSED. POSSESSION. REPRESSION. will be projected at Estação das Artes Cultural Complex during the solar festival @festivalsolar 2024 edition.

40 works were selected, including artists that I follow and admire intensely. Our works revolve around the theme of freedom and will be united to build a reflection on how freedom and democracy and their resistance movements are more important than ever.

The Noite Solar projections take place during the opening week of Foto festival SOLAR, from 11 to December 15, in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

Thank you to the entire @solarfestival team. I will keep an eye on this end of the Atlantic and follow every second from afar. What an honor to be part of this!

~ Jen Cabral

LATEST PUBLICATION

WORDGATHERING: A JOUNAL ON DISABILITY POETRY, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

I was invited by Artist Chanika Svetvilas to collaborate on a book review for Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature (ISSN: 2690-7089). This is a digital, open access journal of disability poetry, literature, and the arts by Syracuse University.

The article quickly expanded into a lively dialogue between me and Chanika Svetvilas, an interdisciplinary artist and visiting scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University an inspiring artist and friend.

Thanks to the generosity of Wordgathering’s editor-in-chief, Diane R. Wiener, our exchange was included in full on the latest issue of Wordgathering. Diane is the Founding Director of the Syracuse University Disability Cultural Center (2011-2018); She has published widely on disability, pedagogy, and empowerment, among other subjects. She is a proud Neuroqueer, Mad, Crip, Gender Nonconforming, Ashkenazic Jewish Hylozoist Nerd (etc.). Diane blogged for the Huffington Post between May 2016 and January 2018.

Here is a short excerpt of our Book Review for Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (ed. Amanda Cachia). Published by Routledge. 2023. (ISBN 9780367775735)

“This book made me aware of my role in not only choosing the communities of care I want to participate in, but my role in the communities of care I am willing to create.

For so long, I was concerned about receiving access, but I am more excited about the possibility of generating access and no longer expecting an outside system to provide access for me and for others.”

~ Jennifer Cabral

Exploring our Connections

2024 NJ ARTS ANNUAL SHOW

I am so excited for the opportunity to occupy this space along many New Jersey Artists. The opening will be on September 26th. The exhibition is open until December at the Monclair Art Museum (MAM).

A jury reviewed more than 1000 submissions and selected 63 recent works that explore past and present themes of family, community, and belonging, in relation to identity, diversity and inclusion.

This is one of the first museums in the USA primarily engaged in collecting American art, including the work of contemporary, nonacademic artists, and among the first dedicated to the study and creation of a significant Native American art collection.

See the complete series that accompanies the work I am presenting at Montclair art museum here.