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 The Hand-Off: Armanis Fuentes
12.18.22
​Armanis Fuentes is an artist and writer based in Pittsburgh. They are a member of the artist collective Hotbed. In their essay Tablillas and the Puerto Rican Interior Fuentes explores diasporic place-making in domestic decoration, and the community resilience engendered in the Puerto Rican architectural tradition.

​Join us for a presentation by Fuentes on their writing and work, in dialogue with The Hand-Off series editor Harrison Kinnane Smith.
Read Fuentes' Essay in the Hand-Off

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Art is often characterized as a “labor of love” — working artists are frequently challenged with professional precarity yet expected to commit entirely to their craft. Grants, residencies, galleries and museums support such cultural workers, but often overlook the unique needs of and demands faced by one important group: parent artists. Join us for Home/Making: Practice and Parenthood, a panel with Alisha B. Wormsley and Lenka Clayton, two Pittsburgh-based mothers and working artists who have both created residencies that address the unique needs of parent artists in different ways. Moderated by Bunker Projects’ board member Tara Fay Coleman, an artist and mother herself, Wormsley and Clayton will speak to their experiences as artists and mothers, and discuss how they navigate these roles in their studios, homes, and the residency programs they run.
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Alisha B. Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Wormsley’s work contributes to the imagining of the future of arts, science, and technology through the black womxn lens. Alisha is a mother, and founder of Sibyls Shrine, an arts collective and residency program for Black womxn, trans women, and femmes who are m/others and identify as artists, creatives and activists. Most recent exhibitions include;  the Oakland Museum, VCUArts Qatar, Southbank Arts Centre, Times Square Arts and the Mattress Factory Museum. Wormsley’s newest project, D.R.E.A.M. A Way to Afram, with collaborator Li Harris, was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Clayton is also a mother, and the founder of An Artist Residency in Motherhood, a self-directed, open-source artist residency program that takes place inside the homes and lives of artists who are also parents. There are currently over 1,000 artists-in-residence in 62 countries. In 2022, An Artist Residency in Motherhood celebrates its 10-year anniversary.
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Tara Fay is an independent curator, producer, and conceptual artist from Buffalo, NY. Her work consists of a multidisciplinary praxis that is an exploration of identity, motherhood, Black womanhood, and taking up space. Through her practice, she mines her own lived experiences for subject matter, with a goal to intertwine her life and her work. She serves as a board member, at Bunker Projects, and is a member of  the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She has curated exhibitions for various institutions, which include Phosphor Project Space, Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and Brewhouse Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.

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 The Hand-Off: Shori Sims in Conversation with Harrison Kinnane Smith
12.26.21

Shori Sims is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born in 1999 in Baltimore, Maryland who now lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. They has exhibited work throughout Pittsburgh and the Midwest, as well as with Lubov Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, and internationally in both London, UK, and Toronto, Canada. Their articles and zines have been published in apmagazine, SPICY Zine, SKEW Magazine, and Yale’s Asterisk* Journal of Art and Art History.
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In their essay "In some far off place, I'll wait for you" Cybernature and the Preservation of Space , published in the Bunker Review's Hand-Off series, Sims advocates Black cyber-feminism in the face of late-stage capitalism's disregard of nature. Sims positions nature a historical place of respite and communion for the oppressed, and presents "cybernature" as a the new frontier in anti-capitalist, communal freedom. Watch the virtual conversation with Sims about her essay and how they addresses these themes in their art.
Read Sims' Essay in the Hand-Off

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 The Hand-Off: Teena Wilder in Conversation with Way Gilbert and Tara Fay Coleman
4.3.21

A virtual conversation between Teena Wilder, Way Gilbert and Tara Fay Coleman about hair culture, literature, Blackness, and visual art.

Teena Wilder is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. Wilder was raised in rural Summerton, South Carolina, and received their BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in New Studio Practice with minors in both Humanities and Art History.
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Wày Gilbert is an artist based, born, and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin currently completing her undergraduate degree at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Her work addresses themes of Blackness, space and religion.

Tara Fay is an independent curator, producer, and conceptual artist from Buffalo, NY.

This talk is an extension of Wilder's text Things I Took From My Father, published in the Bunker Review’s Hand-Off essay series. In the work, Wilder explores themes of stillness, blackness, and healing while reflecting on the adoption of complex familial narratives as forms of survival. 
Read Teena's Essay in the Hand-Off

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​The Hand-Off: Nick Drain and Harrison Kinnane Smith in Conversation
1.2.21


Nick Drain is a fine artist born in Chicago, IL, who lives and works in Milwaukee, WI. Centering his thinking around blackness, his work investigates the politics of visibility in an effort to illustrate the complex relationship of blackness and Black people to the object of the camera. 

Published in the Bunker Review's new Hand-Off series, Drain's essay What Are You Looking At?  uses photographic history, Simone Brown’s sousveillance, and Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon to uncover the entangled relationship between “the technology that is race and the technology that is photography.” Join us for a virtual conversation between Drain and Bunker Review editor Harrison Kinnane Smith about Drain's essay, and how he addresses the questions it raises in his art.
Read Nick's Essay in the Hand-Off
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