AWESOME CREATOR :: MYCELIUM’S MATTHEW ABRAMS AND THE EVOLUTION OF EDUCATION

We are honored to introduce the Exit Strata community to Mycelium school founder, educator, forward thinker, instigator, entrepreneur, lifehacker Matthew Abrams today as part of our ongoing Awesome Creator series.   It’s always been important to me that this platform understands creative life (and awesome creators) as not limited to “the arts” or their commonly understood trappings — you can be an utterly uncreative artist,... Read More

FIELD NOTES: (UN)SETTLING DOWN : EPISODE FOUR :: TWO VISITS TO BELÉN MARKET

The second time I went to the Belén market, I was stopped by a cop. “Be very careful with your camera here,” he warned me. “Of course,” I said. “No, be very careful.” He was part of a team escorting a film crew through the market. I stumbled onto them instructing a pair of shoppers to pretend to assess stacks of fish that had just been hauled out of the Amazon. Later, I saw the cameraman walking backward up the concrete steps leading... Read More

ART :: OPENINGS PRESENTS :: FRENZY INTO FOLLY VIRTUAL GALLERY VI :: SANTELLA, VELLETRI, PAVLOU, KOHN

We’ve grown accustomed to having the incredible OPENINGS collective grace our friday edition… but Frenzy into Folly will run for only two more weeks! Come to New York, and get thyself to St. Paul the Apostle to see this forward thinking work installed! Frenzy Into Folly Church of St. Paul the Apostle Corner of West 60th & Columbus Ave. (212) 265-3495 New York, New York 10019 [On View Through October 26th. Open Hours: Mon – Fri... Read More

FIELD NOTES :: (UN)SETTLING DOWN in BUENOS AIRES, PART 2 : LIFE IN TRANSIT

I The round-faced girl wobbles back and forth in front of the green grocer’s entrance. She’s about two, and is usually wearing a white frilly hat pulled down hard over her head. She’s always carrying a piece of produce. Today, it’s an orange. Yesterday, it was a banana. The first time we came here, it was a piece of mango peel, the meat turned out and tooth-shredded. She dodders back and forth in front... Read More

FIELD NOTES :: No Instructions for Assembly :: Kameelah Rasheed’s Photographic Memory

While an Artist in Residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock this summer, I continued to work on the series Memories: No Instructions for Assembly. This series which has morphed into six evolving iterations - I, II, III, IV, V, and VI is born from my family’s experience with displacement and loss. There is limited photographic evidence that my family ever existed. Photographs were lost when we were unlawfully removed... Read More

FIELD NOTES : Architectural Uncanny, PART 2 :: Martin Byrne’s Moments of Environmental Opportunity

Every now and again, as I walk around these not-so-pristine streets, my eye will catch something small, some strange forgotten detail on a building facade and it will tell me to record it in some way, sketch or otherwise, in order for it not to be forgotten entirely.  Other times, my forehead opens up and things fall out and I’ll need a place to catch them.Most often though, the idle thoughts that pass through typically revolve around or revolve... Read More

ART: “Meet Miss Subways!” Photography, History and Identity :: Fiona Gardner

Angela Vorsteg Norris Miss Subways March 1950 If you’re not from around here, you may not know that Meet Miss Subways is more than a Ferlinghetti poem. And, as such, you may not know that “Miss Subways was a title accorded to individual New York City women between 1941 and 1976. The woman who was “Miss Subways” at any one time appeared on posters placed on New York City Subway trains, along with a brief description of... Read More