Social Distanzine

A collaborative ~exquisite corpse~ art by mail project
Exquisite Mail is a mail-go-round initiative to bring real-life tactile art and creative collaboration to you with the added benefit of supporting the United States Postal Service.

~interviews~

season two

Back to School
conversations with arts teachers of all kinds everywhere. As frontline workers in a tactile field, arts teachers face unique hurdles in addition to the regular challenges that covid-era instruction presents. Together with our heroes in education we explore the adaptation of hands-on art making for distance learning, the possibilities presented by online exhibition, and the struggle to maintain a sense of community--and, well, what it's like in general.

A conversation with Brooklyn NY-based middle school teacher Sam about the challenges and rewards of teaching art at a distance and in the classroom during the COVID-19 era.

season one
conversations with the arts community everywhere
in this time of social distancing and solidarity

A conversation about the entrenched racial and social inequities of the art world, and how American nonprofits have responded to the covid-19 crisis and the murder of George Floyd. Curator, writer, educator, and Art + Museum Transparency co-founder Michelle Millar Fisher joins us to chat about the ongoing struggle for labor power in museums, the role of artists today, and why there's hope in solidarity. Good soup!

All about Jersey City-based photographer Duquann Sweeney. We talk about how street photographers struggle to overcome the alienating barrier of 'the mask' during a pandemic, mull over the perks of shooting film or digital, and dig into what it takes to teach kids about art in and outside of quarantine. Plus! The value of civic participation, why it's okay /not/ to make art, and how to win at chess.

Featuring Chelsea Beck, Brooklyn-based illustrator and artist. We talk about Chelsea's editorial work for Gizmodo (+more), and how her process and inspirations have changed during the coronavirus crisis. Also, the importance of putting on (but maybe not buttoning) jeans, the risks and rewards of sharing personal artwork, how to climb an exposed brick wall like a gecko, and why being unproductive is good.

Kicking off our interview series with Matt Davis, Owner/Operator of Perfectly Acceptable, a Chicago-based risograph press and publishing house. We talk about Perfectly Acceptable’s remote residency, book publishing now and later, the perks of riso printing, and most importantly, Pumpkin!