Art to Educate
The art pieces featured here are paired with educational essays on a variety of topics. Art is political. My work imagines a world in which our existence is more important than our productivity, the environment and our human rights are protected, and our collective creativity flourishes. It is daily work to make the world we wish to see, and we each must choose how we go about it.
The Undreamer 3.0
“It’s 2084 — sleeping is keeping you poor!” Garret Glover grinned at the 50 megapixel front camera of his mounted iPhone 27, which he was live-streaming from. He glanced at his personal phone and checked the content brief from NoSleep: Garret looked at the thin, black, yoga-mat-like ‘bed’ on the floor behind him (roll it…
Housing is a Human Right
Safe, stable, affordable housing was first recognized as a universal human right in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although the US signed this declaration, there are still no federal laws that guarantee access to housing (unlike countries such as France, Spain, Sweden, and Belgium, whose constitutions expressly create a right to housing). As of 2022 in the U.S, there were an estimated 650,000…
Protect Public Libraries
This is a love letter to libraries. Thank you for being a quiet place filled with books. There are so few quiet places where we can exist without paying — no need to buy a cup of coffee before I ask the librarian a question. Thank you for making learning look beautiful, with your dark…