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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I haven’t posted in a long time… but I started reading this. It lays out how artists are exploring the dark side of technology, through geospatial, critical theory, and poetics.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you are a visual artist whose NEA grant was terminated today, I want to talk to you for ARTnews. You can contact me on Signal at karenkho.45. I can grant anonymity if necessary.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Okay! She was WILDLY dense… but! There is a breakthrough topic in this book, and it’s that graphic design interfaces often are treated and designed like print syntax. And it poses the “what if?” possibilities of new visual language when breaking that mold.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

She’s dense but I’m learning so much about data visualization.

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 28/03/2025

In 2003, a group of artists secretly moved into a 750-square-foot space in a large mall in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. They didn’t expect to stay more than a day, a week at most. But they stayed for four years.

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A Group of Friends Walks Into a Mall, and Stays for Four Years

Was it a crime? A prank? A work of art? A new documentary unveils the full story of an artist collective’s secret mall apartment, and other ephemeral actions.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It was incredible to be showing work alongside peers in the Tactical Communications portfolio, that will be exhibited this year at SGCI Puerto Rico.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This research I’m doing with the Philadelphia AIDS Library Archives is really showing how much information is weaponized in climate and sustainability focused initiatives. The world is wild man!

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The hardest part of archive researching, is the mental toll it takes to spend four hours reading articles and looking at images of people who have died from the aids crisis. I feel like I need a beer after each research session this week.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Research say with the Philly AIDS Library archive at temple university.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I leave for Philly tomorrow to do a big pate de verre casting at my alma mater tyler. I’ve been researching the crisis hickory nut gorge green salamanders are facing from silica mining in Appalachia. This image will be screen printed with glass powders and fused in the casting

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

How are artists centering pleasure in their practice? What are the ways that love and joy in the studio become pivotal to the work you make?

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I swear, I will never understand how to work with the algorithm on photo socials like Instagram

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I wish Cy Twombly was still alive 💕

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Something I always struggle with with my studio practice, is boredom. And in turn, I start 12 bodies of work at once

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’m doing new work on the archives of Our Own Press, a community LGBTQ+ newspaper, by printing and drawing on trashed signage material. I can’t wait to share this work with the world and to continue dumpster diving for more materials.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

That’s a great way of stating. Sometimes art needs to be put in drag, other times it just needs to wear new balances and solid colored tee.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Like there are totally different stakes making a print 8” by 10” verses 22” by 30” verses 10ft by 10ft, with their own material limitations AND conceptual undertakings. Teaching is hard man…

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Totally, and I do that too. Sometimes they are just like “I like working small” and when I ask them what the choice to do a work small does the work conceptually, they are dumbfounded. So I’m more curious into the ways that size can interweave concept.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Educators: what are some of the ways you are introducing discourse on scale and size to your students? I’m finding it challenging to get students to do things larger, so I’m curious what sorts of readings or exercises you do to have them conceptually consider size with their work?

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It was in my universities library!

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I read Gregg Bordowitz text in General Idea’s “Imagevirus” the iconic design that has been used in countless iterations. This text was fantastic, and brought a new lens for considering how poetry, and art history informed this work.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This was so good. I will never look at Olive Garden the same way again!

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

How do you manage the unreasonable expectation of participating in 5+ group shows a year when you have an impending solo exhibition that requires tons of research and energy?

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I didn’t realize your first year of teaching is full of so many growing pains.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Most weeks are great, but this is one of those teaching weeks where things are just not coming together in line - students aren’t reading project sheets or coming to class prepared. This is so hard in the foundation level courses because there is so much to cover!

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Van Wendigo @vanweezer.myatproto.social · 10/02/2025

I'm saying Go Birds because there's a chance their victory riot turns into a general strike

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The inescapable pleasure of drawing (that isn’t about the Declaration of Independence)

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 08/02/2025

New compliance doc for NEA recipients www.arts.gov/grants/legal...

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I had the plan of editing my friend Elliot and Henry’s essay. Please read before the game. Sports are always political, and this Super Bowl is quite literally a parallel to the political condition today.

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Football and Fascism - Politics in Sports from Rome to Kansas City

What it means to support a team and how politics plays a role in Super Bowl LIX, by Elliot Engles and Henry David Rosenberg, edited by Jake Lahah

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’m reading a book of interviews with Hand Ulrich Obrist. This is pretty painful to get through with the odd strike through editing and name dropping, but will update you if anything interesting happens.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Which is respectful, but I want a little grit

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Same, and I think there may be a day it would be true. But I think most creatives (myself included), have trouble breaking the wall of curated content. And until then, it will always feel somewhat, disingenuous

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Sometimes this place feels like a weird new tumblr

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’ve decided I like bluesky, but I feel that artists use it in a way that’s in this purgatory between Instagram and x. Like it offers new types of posting but not unhinged enough for twitter and not curated enough for Instagram

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I maybe just haven’t figured out how to support them in the ways they need, and some of that starts with education on what art actually is. It doesn’t help that students at my school can take their foundations during their entire 4 year experience. Sometimes I’m teaching color theory to a senior.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Totally, and that conversation I have usually towed that sort of line. I think this becomes confusing more conceptually though. I teach at a commuter school so the vibe is so different - students essentially work for a degree to secure a job.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A lesson I learned teaching foundations this academic year, is that students often see work by examples by big name artists who have tons of resources to make things happen. This leaves student often confused on where or what their work should look like during their education experience.

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I just finished “Burning Blue” by Print artist Cara Benedetto. This was so smutty in the best way possible. Considering her larger research in romance novels, I’m thinking so much about how fiction blurs mimetic experience and socio-political language. Very captivating read.

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Mitch Goldstein @mgoldst.com · 03/02/2025

a helpful diagram. #art #design

a venn diagram: one cirsl says "f*ck around" , the other says "find out", and the intersectuon says "creative practice."

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I disclosed in office hours today that I’m a major Fall Out Boy fan and my student thought they were a 90’s band :/

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I have so many incredible publication ideas, but am hesitate to jump start each one for the stress of corroborating so many people

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Jake Lahah @jakelahah.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

THIS! Just do it. I hope you are watching the current season of Traitors.

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