Ahjo is a neuro different, gender queer, pansexual, elemental creature, residing for more than 25 years on Tewa land at O’gha Po’oge—White Shell Water Place—now called Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ahjo’s ancestors, primarily Lithuanian and Norwegian, migrated to the Chicago area.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…