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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Where can we get info on Julie Wiley’s platform?

Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Come see what I’ve been working on alongside five other artists in our community. House on Fire is open now at The Common Well in Garden City. My piece will be changing over the course of the show— come see me work today and tomorrow at noon.

A length of white paper on a concrete floor. The end of the paper is cut into fringe. On the left side, the paper reads repetitive text: “give me give me give me”

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I’m honored to be a part of the House on Fire Artist Residency at The Common Well this summer. I’m working alongside five other artist-activists to find meaningful ways to connect activism to art practice. One guest speaker’s talk was titled: “how to burn brighter than the dumpster fire” 🔥

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I’m sure for a lot of my fellow artists, we’re wondering what our role is right now. Everything is changing, faster than we can keep up with. But art — song, especially — can bring people together in a powerful way. Song can turn poetry and narrative into something memorable and communal.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

He hesitated before agreeing to that performance, unsure of whether it was his place. The terrorist had named the song as everything he hated. I keep thinking of the line “you can’t kill all the unbelievers / there’s no shortcut to freedom”.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I’m thinking about the importance of song, particularly comfort songs. Lillebjørn Nilsen led 40,000 people in singing «Barna av Regnbuen», his translation of Pete Seeger’s “My Rainbow Race” a year after the terrorist attack of July 22, 2011.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Every translation is a transformation. This scroll has the lyrics to Lillebjørn Nilsen’s «danse, ikke gråte nå» in Spanish, English, and the original Norwegian. I remember listening to this song on cassette as a kid. It was one of the first songs I could understand in full as I learned the language.

A red, white, blue, and lavender hand painted scroll unfurls to reveal text in Spanish, English, and Norwegian

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Just finished deinstalling at the Boise Art Museum. A bittersweet end of the most significant show of my career. Here’s a vid that shows the internal armature. I already have more paper pillars in the works, repurposing some of the PVC armatures for the next show.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Ancient history need not be a mystery.

A scroll of white paper with red writing stands on end on a desk with both sides curled and a big swoop unfurled between them. Behind is a loom and more scrolls.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I don’t like the process because it is hard to remember and time consuming. It requires more patience and attention than the act of weaving. I know I’ll get better the more I do it, but I don’t want to do it frequently. I need to struggle through the difficulty and commit to doing it more often.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Warping is the hardest part because I do it only about once or twice a year. Weaving is tricky when you have so many interests!

Dark and light blue threads are chained and wrapped around the front beam of a floor loom. The ends have been threaded through the comb-like part of the loom, called the reed.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Getting some help from one of my fellow artists-in-residence, Janell Strouse, today, to get my Boise Art Museum show professionally photographed. This is my unprofessional iPhone selfie as she’s hard at work doing her thing shooting the work 📸 The show is up through July 13th. #contemporaryart

A white woman with short blonde hair, glasses, and red lipstick smiles in front of painted paper scroll towers

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Cosecha. Harvest. Ekphrastic alt text on carrots I forgot to thin. In Norwegian, carrots are gulerøtter. Gule + røtter. Yellow roots. Vegetables? Grønnsaker. Grønn + saker. Green things. #vegetablegarden #poemdiary #norsk #multilingual #freeassociation

Light shines through a window. It is morning. Baby carrots that didn’t grow very big because I forgot to thin them are backlit. They look like drips of ink spilling down into the roots. I notice the roots have little hairs coming off of them and this strikes me as very cute. The carrots’ little feet dip their toes in water. A cup is backlit and turned on its side. It reminds me of a moon.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Thank you for all that you do. Your writing over the years has been a beacon of hope.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

What’s the beforelight book in this picture? The cover looks like a cyanotype by Anna Atkins

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Breaking language is what poets do. As does AI. Signs of life? Signs of consciousness? Is consciousness just stupidity? Is consciousness being conscious of one’s own stupidity? Stupid thoughts. Thanks for reading.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Reminds me of Magritte and de Chirico. Also Morandi in a way. And Edward Hopper.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Moral compass Oral comfort Comfort food Moral courage choral cordage choir twined together wire binds up ties in pyres fire burns smoke signals to point the way north.

My studio wall detail shot: a weaving in mostly greens with yellow-white fringe hangs on a dowel. Pinned to the side like a brooch on its chest is a drawing on a grid. The drawing in red ink white negative space and graphite is both graphic and textual: MEWE reads the compass, offset and weighed down (smooshed). A calligraphic script reads “moral compass”. Around the weaving hand other text-drawings concrete poems and hanks of green handspun wool yarn.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Ohh, thank you for sharing! Looking forward to learning more about your process. I crochet a lot too and I’m always looking for ways to use the scraps.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

These are amazingly beautiful. What fibers are you using? How are you preparing them for spinning?

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Who makes the clothes? I’ve never thought much about how important clothing and materials are for world building but of course it makes total sense. Textiles make the world.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Summer studio themes: translation, transliteration, poetry, musicality, community, comfort, thread. All things that touch me. #studionotes #artstudio #drawings #poetry #weaving #fiberarts #translation

A corner of a studio with weavings and text-based drawings (concrete poetry?) on the walls. Books are stacked on top of the short wall and on a cart. On a wooden loom bench sit four cards of my artworks.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Want to see what I’m making this summer? Stop by the Common Well tonight from 5:30-8:30 for First Friday. Surel’s Place put together a map of what’s happening so you can gallery hop to take in as much as you like. 110 West 31st Street, Garden City

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“Here We Have Idaho: Material Matters, S.A. Jones and Astri Snodgrass” continues through July 13 at the Boise Art Museum. Join me Thursday for an artist talk in the galleries, or hit me up for a private tour between now and the end of the show. #contemporarydrawing #worksonpaper #contemporaryart

Two framed works on paper hang on a teal blue wall above a vitrine. The vitrine contains open sketchbooks and organic shaped crochet “drawings” (psychedelic doilies, if you will)

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Don’t miss my First Thursday gallery talk @ the Boise Art Museum this week, 5:30pm!

Framed drawings hang on a divider wall in a white cube gallery. The wall is painted a teal blue. In front of the wall is a vitrine with sketchbooks and other small works.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Thank you, Houston! What a lovely welcome at the reception last night. BOX13 ArtSpace— y’all are some lovely humans. I’m happy this work gets to call your gallery home through June 28th. There are gallery hours today and Saturdays moving forward from 1-5pm. #contemporaryart #worksonpaper

A white box gallery shot from the back of the room. “Spindles” of paper scrolls are suspended from the ceiling are spread throughout the space. Repeated forms of paper rolls spiral upwards and unspool a bit on two white pedestals low to the ground.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The show is up — thanks to all who came out for the reception tonight! I am beat. Heading back home tomorrow, but the work will stay here for several more weeks.

Painted scrolls of paper shot from above on a wide white pedestal. One is laid on its side and is split into fringe, with the ends spun into yarn.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It’s been a whirlwind install week— thank goodness I had help from a dear friend. Houston, come on out tomorrow for the opening reception from 6-9 at Box13 art space! 6700 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX 77011 #houstonart #worksonpaper

A pillar of paper is precariously wrapped around a wire form with three prongs sticking out the top. It is tapered at the top. The paper is painted with calligraphic text that reads “tell it slant”

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

What’s the title? I’d like to get my hands on that.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

poem draft: We’d rather wake up to birdsong than your explosions, My English explains to the hound. Blink if you understand. Looking for title suggestions 🙃

A panting dog in an orange harness explores in front of a weather-worn fence gate. The gate is painted with an endearingly lopsided yellow smiley. It has rosy cheeks, heart-shaped bows(?) in hair it doesn’t have. A pine branch grazes the top of the fence. The face is, indeed, too tall for the hound to scale.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

There will always be tomorrow / fresh paper new as snow / and rainbows in the colors of the clouds #translation #comfortsong #poetry

A white woman in glasses and a Paddington-style yellow raincoat smiles. Her dog’s face photobombs the scene with worried eyes. Behind them, a rainbow.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Creative chaos: colorful handwriting of interlocking and overlapping notes. Calligraphy as sculpture as concrete poetry. Shipping this work to Houston for a solo show at BOX13 gallery at the end of May! #contemporaryart #writingasdrawing #translation

Scrolls sit upright on a studio floor. A tomato cage rests upside down the in background.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Pia loves to curl into the smallest of donuts when a dog bed is available. No cushion is too small.

A big black and tan hound dog is curled up on a much too small red dog bed.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

“The best art can do now is to activate in us the emotional and social muscles we’ve let atrophy in our public life: sympathy, humility, earnestness, horror. Guernica and the AIDS Memorial Quilts didn’t change minds but hearts.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fasc...

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Trump, Fascism, and What Artists Can Do

There is tension between wanting art to transcend and wanting it to reflect reality back to us. Plus: Are Dems finally ready to retire the purity tests?

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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Support your local public library workers’ unions. Talk to staff. Understand their commitment to the library. Help them help you. Know the differences between librarian & library associate. See what they earn. Learn why they’re unionizing. Question boards & administrators on their priorities.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Small talk can lead to big talk. Find common ground. Exude kindness. Kindness stands out right now.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

One lesson from this book that I latched onto is make eye contact and small talk. There is so much power in insisting on small talk. And keeping talking. And keeping talking.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Nonviolent Peaceforce’s Hub for Nonviolence and Safety in North Minneapolis work to strengthen our communities through conflict de-escalation and peace building. I heard from their team to chat about how we can work together to strengthen safety in our neighborhoods through unarmed approaches.

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“How are you doing today?” can be a powerful question if you really want to hear the answer. Make it clear you want to know, it’s not some flippant greeting. GET TALKING

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Astri Snodgrass @astrisnodgrass.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Looks beautiful! What’s the fiber?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

14/ Second, through mass mobilization. When hundreds of thousands of people rally against this kind of assault on democracy, history shows it works. There is a strange, magic power to mass activation which makes supporters of the regime start to jump ship.

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