Contributors — Social Art Library

R.M. Sánchez-Camus

R.M. Sanchez-Camus is a creative practitioner who develops works of art in collaboration with community partners. He creates site-responsive works that activate dialogue, interaction, visual impact and community cohesion. His interests lay in neighbourhood narratives, hidden mythologies, psychogeography, and outdoor works.

He has been commissioned by leading organisations with remits in public art and social practice such as Artangel, People United, and Freedom Festival, and in 2017 co-founded Social Art Network UK, which he continues to co-manage.

https://www.appliedliveart.com

ContributorAugust 12, 2019RM Sanchez-Camus

Jessica Harby

Jessica Harby was born in 1980 in Oak Lawn, Il, USA and studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her practice encompasses drawing, installation, video, sound and performance and mixes the delicate, the brutal, the absurd and the serious. Jessica is co-creator of the zine Tappa Tappa Tappa and one of six artists selected by Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands for their two-year project Document.

Jessica lives and works in Tory-bankrupted Northampton.

ContributorAugust 12, 2019Jessica Harby

Chrissie Tiller

Chrissie Tiller is a creative consultant and practitioner working across a range of sectors. For the last 12 years she was also Director of the MA in Participatory and Community Arts at Goldsmiths and now works outside the academy to develop alternative models of learning to formal Higher Education. Her work is informed by a passionate commitment to the possibility for everyone, no matter what their class, education or cultural background, to engage with the making, sharing and enjoyment of the arts.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Chrissie Tiller

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen (1973) is an art historian and political theorist. He is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen and has published books and articles on the revolutionary tradition and modern art.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Nato Thompson

Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at the New York–based public arts institution Creative Time. He edited The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life and Becoming Animal (both published by the MIT Press) and curated the MASS MoCA exhibitions they accompanied.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Nato Thompson

Kate Blackmore

Kate Blackmore is a screen-based artist working across contemporary art and cinematic contexts. Since 2007 she has been a key member of artist collective Barbara Cleveland (with Kelly Doley, Frances Barrett & Diana Smith) whose artistic, curatorial, publishing and educational projects are influenced by queer and feminist methodologies.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Kate Blackmore

Nicola Mann

Nicola Mann is Associate Professor of Communications and Visual Cultures at Richmond University. Informed by urban culture studies and community activism, her current research considers dominant visualisations of London’s Heygate council estate in light of recent regeneration efforts.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Nicola Mann, Charlotte and Nicola

Charlotte Bonham-Carter

Charlotte Bonham-Carter is Programme Director for Culture and Enterprise at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. She has experience in cultural management and academic leadership and has held curatorial positions at a number of public institutions, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Barbican Art Gallery, Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) and Art on the Underground.c

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Charlotte and Nicola

Socially Engaged Craft Collective

The Socially Engaged Craft Collective (SECC) is an expanding network of artists who create a wide range of socially engaged art projects that are rooted in the history of craft objects and materials. The SECC aims to promote artists and to expose other artists, educators, and those who are interested to the wide spectrum of socially engaged craft. In addition to highlighting artists and their artwork, the SECC is an open resource of knowledge, news, and professional opportunities within the field.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Socially Engaged Craft Collective

Izabel Galliera

Izabel Galliera is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory, and curator of the Rice Gallery at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Izabel Galliera

David Caines

David Caines is a graphic designer and visual artist based in London. His communications and design work includes projects for the 57th Venice Bienniale, the National Trust, the BFI and the Live Art Development Agency. His interests include branding and identity, book design, illustration, art direction, campaigns and events. David also makes paintings and regularly exhibits his work. In 2009 he turned his house in North London into a gallery and opened it to the public for two weeks. In 2015 he was shortlisted for the East London Painting Prize.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019David Caines

Ernesto Pujol

Ernesto Pujol is a site-specific performance artist, social choreographer, and educator with an interdisciplinary practice. Pujol was born in 1957 in Havana, Cuba and spent time in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, before moving to the United States in 1979. He has lived and worked in New York since 1984.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Ernesto Pujol

Cecilie Sachs Olsen

Cecilie Sachs Olsen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the centre for the GeoHumanities. Her work is practice-based and revolves around developing creative methods for urban research and exploring how artistic practice can be used as a framework to analyse and re-imagine urban space and politics.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019Cecilie Sachs Olsen

Vida Sabbaghi

Vida Sabbaghi is the founder and director of COPE NYC, whose mission is to provide innovative approaches to community engagement through art programs, accessible museum programs, conferences, exhibits, and artists in residence such as those in Soulangh Cultural Village, Taiwan and Brooklyn, New York.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019vida & alice

Alice Wexler

Alice Wexler is Professor Emerita, SUNY New Paltz. She has previously published Autism in a Decentered World in the Routledge Advances in Disability Studies series.

ContributorJuly 19, 2019vida & alice

Lucy Wright

Lucy Wright is an artist and researcher. Her work draws on her background as an ethnomusicologist and combines approaches from ethnography and social art.

https://www.artistic-researcher.co.uk/

ContributorJuly 18, 2019Lucy Wright, Amanda & Lucy

Prof Amanda Ravetz

Amanda Ravetz is a visual anthropologist with research interests and expertise in the interdisciplinary connections between anthropology and art/design; the theories and practices of observational cinema; and artist development.

http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/profile/aravetz

ContributorJuly 18, 2019Amanda & Lucy

Alice Bradshaw

Alice Bradshaw is an artist, curator, researcher and writer based in West Yorkshire, UK. She works with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials.

ContributorJuly 18, 2019Alice Bradshaw

The Conversation Pod

The Conversation Pod is a podcast about the world of contemporary art, featuring conversations with artists, collectors, curators, writers, gallerists, and other people working in and around the art world.

https://www.theconversationpod.com/

ContributorJuly 18, 2019The Conversation Pod