#FIFTYQUESTIONS

ALLISON EVANS—AWARDED 2018 SSB AWAY TUSCANY RETREAT—ANSWERS A FEW OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS

Some Serious Business is pleased to announce that artist Allison Evans has been awarded a three-week SSB AWAY Residency at Podere Malabiccia in Tuscany, Italy, this June. Evans received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and an M.F.A. from Hunter College in New York City. Evans’s work has been exhibited at The…

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#FiftyQuestions with Juliana Laffitte of MONDONGO: Commentary by Susan Wiggins

Some Serious Business presents #FiftyQuestions to highlight folks who are creating, presenting, questioning and critiquing. Each featured artist picks a handful of questions to answer. #FiftyQuestions was created especially for SSB by Quintan Ana Wikswo. “It is clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my…

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#FiftyQuestions: Linda Alterwitz

33- What do you suspect is your most powerful artistic blessing? Or blessing in general? I have no fear when it comes to creating art. Not even a fear of failure, because I don’t believe that failure exists in art. If something doesn’t work the way I had envisioned, I see it as an opportunity…

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author Kenny Fries

#FiftyQuestions with Kenny Fries

Kenny Fries received the Creative Capital literature grant for his new book, In the Province of the Gods.  He is the author of Body, Remember:  A Memoir, and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.

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#FiftyQuestions with Laura Splan

Some Serious Business presents #FiftyQuestions to highlight folks who are creating, presenting, questioning and critiquing. Each featured artist picks a handful of questions to answer. Laura Splan is an artist and lecturer whose work explores intersections of art, science, technology and craft. Her conceptually based projects examine the material manifestations of our mutable relationship with the…

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Erica Wanenmacher | #FiftyQuestions interview

Some Serious Business presents #FiftyQuestions to highlight folks who are creating, presenting, questioning and critiquing. Each featured artist picks a handful of questions to answer. 4- Describe your ideal workspace I have my ideal workspace. The first thing that I do when I get to my studio is to burn some “Gratitude” incense on my work…

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Ranu Mukherjee: #FiftyQuestions

Some Serious Business presents #FiftyQuestions to highlight folks who are creating, presenting, questioning and critiquing. Each featured artist picks a handful of questions to answer. 11- What is your current guiding motivation to work and/or express yourself? Last week I opened Shadowtime, an exhibition titled after a word which I coined in 2016 with the Bureau…

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Jaclyn Roessel | #FiftyQuestions

Some Serious Business presents #FiftyQuestions to highlight folks who are creating, presenting, questioning and critiquing. Each featured artist picks a handful of questions to answer. 32- How has your years in artmaking affected or influenced your sense of self? I recently began to call myself an artist. I didn’t see my creative needs as something that…

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#FIFTYQUESTIONS with Craig Foltz

Photo-credit for the polaroid goes to Jackson Foltz (aged 6) Some Serious Business presents #FiftyQuestions to highlight folks who are creating, presenting, questioning and critiquing. Each featured artist picks a handful of questions to answer. 26- Is destruction a positive phenomenon for you? Destruction is a slippery word. Diamanda Galas recently described her process of reinterpreting…

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Edie Meidav: #FIFTYQUESTIONS

Called an “American original” by The Daily Beast, Edie Meidav is the author of KINGDOM OF THE YOUNG (2017), a collection of short fiction with a nonfiction coda, and the novelsLOLA, CALIFORNIA  (FSG) and CRAWL SPACE (FSG).

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