Contributors
Candice Bancheri is an artist, writer, and aspiring curator with a background in visual art and the social sciences. Her work values critical dialogue and interactive engagement relevant to our contemporary experience. She received her BFA from Boston University and is currently taking courses in their Arts Administration Graduate Program.2 Articles
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
Lilly Saywitz is a Chicago native currently living in Boston. She graduated from Boston University's College of Fine Arts and maintains a studio practice at the Dorchester Art Project.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
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
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
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
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
Ben Street is an art historian, lecturer, museum educator, curator and writer. He lectures on art old and new for the National Gallery, Tate Modern, Christie's Education and the Saatchi Gallery, among other places, and runs his own courses in contemporary art in London. Ben is a freelance art writer and the co-director of the independent art fair Sluice.1 Articles