Contributors
Catherine Graffam is a professional artist and writer living in Lowell, MA. She is a graduate of the New Hampshire Institute of Art where she now teaches drawing and painting.2 Articles
Chloe Teston is a curator, writer, and artist living in Jamaica Plain, MA. She was the director of the Harbor Gallery at UMass Boston from August 2012—June 2013. Chloe is particularly interested in young artist communities, digital culture, and identity politics. She continues to curate independently outside of UMass Boston, where she is currently a student and the assistant manager of visual resources in the Art Department. Most recently she co-curated a short film series screening at the Gli.tc/h 2112 festival in Chicago on the themes of gender and queerness.2 Articles
Sam Toabe is a curator and art historian based in Boston, and for the last three years has acted as Assistant Director at Samsøñ. He recently received an M.A. in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University, where he focused on experimental exhibition design and curatorial practices. He has contributed to over 40 exhibitions, supporting institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Brandeis University, and the Bakalar & Paine Galleries at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, among others.2 Articles
Karen Schiff is an artist in New York. When she lived in Boston (MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2006) she wrote for Big Red & Shiny (2005-08), and started teaching at the Boston Architectural College. She still oversees senior thesis projects there, online, in Design Studies.2 Articles
Andi Sutton is an artist whose practice explores the ways that performance art methodology can create new models for community building and social engagement. She produces work in the collectives The National Bitter Melon Council and Plotform, as well as Platform2: Art and Social Engagement (through 2013), and sustains a solo and collaborative practice with poets, artists, media activists, farmers, chefs, and more. In addition, she manages the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2 Articles
Leah Gallant is an artist and writer from Cambridge, MA. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2015 with a BA in Studio Art and Sociology/Anthropology. You can find her work at http://cargocollective.com/leahgallant or on Instagram @the_vague_one.2 Articles
Gabriel Cira is an architect based in Cambridge MA, where he runs the design office Very Flat. He was a founding editor of the journal Nova Organa and has written on architecture, theory, history, and social implications of design.2 Articles
Avram Finkelstein is an artist, writer, gay rights activist, a founding member of the AIDS advocacy group ACT-UP, co-founder of the group Silence=Death Project, and Gran Fury. With Gran Fury, he collaborated on public awareness campaigns and public art projects for publications, museums and foundations including The New Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Venice Biennale, ArtForum, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Creative Time, and The Public Art Fund.2 Articles
Polina Isurin is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She received her BFA from The Ohio State University and her MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited both domestically and abroad. www.polinaisurin.com2 Articles
Maggie Cavallo is dedicated to activating relationships, advising institutional methods for working with the arts and optimizing the role of artists in society today. Her practice is curatorial, programmatic and socially-engaged; directed towards providing dynamic learning experiences with, through and for contemporary art and artists. Cavallo oversees Alter projects, a platform that fosters artistic infrastructure through custom arts programming and consultation for artists, organizations and the private sector. She is also an Adjunct Instructor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Art Education Program and a Research and Teaching Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she also received her Ed.M in Arts in Education. She received a BA in Media, Society and the Arts from SUNY Purchase.2 Articles