Goings On

From the Cold Edge: Creative Meditations on Svalbard and The Arctic Circle Residency

Amos Eno Gallery, a non-profit, artist-run gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, is pleased to present From the Cold Edge: Creative Meditations on Svalbard and The Arctic Circle Residency, a group exhibition curated by Candace Jensen, Jacinda Russell, and Hester Blum. The show will be on view from October 11 to November 3, 2024, with an opening reception at the gallery's location at 56 Bogart St. on Friday, October 11, from 5 to 9 p.m.

The Metaphysics of Art: Through Engagement and Practice by Shanta Lee

I was featured alongside a number of exciting artists and organizers with a toe or more dipped in the metaphysical, in the March-April 2024 issue of Art New England Magazine.

Consciousness for Life: The “Be Your Own Guide Book” and Oracle Deck published in May 2024

Over 4 years I worked with my beloved teacher, Jean Mazzei to bring her 'Consciousness for Life' book to life, with a 91 card accompanying oracle deck. We ran a kickstarter campaign in 2023 and funded the printing and preorders of a gorgeous limited edition of 300 books and decks. I have a few authors' copies available, for any who may have missed the preorder campaign— shoot me an email!

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The Putney Public Library Chapbook

Copies of the pandemic-delayed Putney Public Library Chapbook, "Time Capsule," are available through the Putney Public Library. The final edition of 295 was completed in early 2024 with help from the community to marble the end sheets, bind the books, and of course attend the readings at the library with many of the poets.

Thanks to the Keene Sentinel ELF for the write-up about our community events to bind and complete the chapbook.

In Situ Polyculture Commons

Our art residency and eco-cultural catalyst offers residency time for artists and hosts workshops to reskill and refamiliarize folks with material knowledge. You can learn more about our upcoming programming and goings ons at insitupolyculture.org

In Situ Polyculture Commons (ISPC) is a nonprofit arts residency, commons and cultural catalyst located in Southeastern Vermont, on the unceded traditional lands of the Abenaki people, whose rich, varied traditions continue today throughout our state, and the regions of “New England” and “Quebec” – the Dawnland of Turtle Island.

We champion the meaningful intersection of creativity and ecology: all culture-making and expression happens in a specific context comprised of place, time and myriad, interwoven relationships— whether or not an artist’s focus is solely on those connections. Through our residencies and programming we support cross-pollination between creative and research disciplines, re-skilling and material knowledge for artists, and the cultivation of rich creative practices for individual artists, collaborative groups, and our communities.

Responses to the Arctic Circle Residency

I have been collecting and collating entries from my Arctic Circle Residency cohort for a chapbook (which has been severely back-burnered). This project eventually fed into co-curating a special issue of Regeneration Journal with my colleagues Hester Blum and Jacinda Russell!

"Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture is an open-access, double anonymous peer-reviewed journal of the environmental humanities that brings humanists, activists, artists, and scientists into conversation around environmental matters."

On the Cold Edge: Creative Meditations on Svalbard is set to be published by the Open Library of the Humanities online in 2025.

A third project, a curated exhibition of creative work from the October 2022 expedition and since, will take place at Amos Eno Gallery in October, 2024.

Disobedient Futures Forthcoming from Cambridge Writers’ Workshop

From the CWW:

"We are excited to announce that the authors for our forthcoming anthology Disobedient Futures have been selected. We are delighted to celebrate the following authors in our anthology:

Update September 2024:

"We are delighted to share that our new speculative literature anthology Disobedient Futures has been acquired by University Press of Kentucky! We are excited to be working with Editor Abby Freeland and her team including Alice Fugate Brown at University Press of Kentucky. Here’s a bit more about Disobedient Futures:

Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokolyai, and Corrine Previte’s, ed’s, DISOBEDIENT FUTURES, a speculative literature anthology that imagines what the future cultures of America and the world might look like through a diverse, inclusive, and multi-genre lens, and includes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid work, art, and photography that explore utopian, dystopian, and alternative realities, futuristic places, and parallel histories to Abby Freeland at University Press of Kentucky (world)."

Official publication date TBA

Candace Jensen

Visual Artist, Polymath, Deep Ecology