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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This was so moving and a reminder that we don’t have to live in a world without rituals, without attunement to the seasons, without ways of calling back to the Earth and offering something of ourselves. We can live an a world teeming with life💫❄️

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I've seen power users who post a lot on Bluesky forget to add alt-text. I know new habits are hard, but taking a few extra seconds to add alt-text to images increases accessibility for many other users and the site's experience overall. Please make a consistent effort to add alt-text to images.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

As smooth as glass and hidden in plain sight. Handmade and embossed cotton and abaca fiber paper with embedded wood shavings from driftwood found on the shores of Lake Michigan. I’m excited about this little experiment and can’t wait to make more.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This week, I’m in the last stretch of installing a big project I’ve been working on for months. This is one tiny part: Electrolyte Shield [homeostasis], 2025, Salvaged Tetrapak, stainless steel jump rings, hand-carved poplar wood, petrified wood, stone, drift wood, water.

A sheet made from small rectangular fragments of recycled, metallic, tetrapak packaging material held together by tiny stainless steel jump rings rests on a concrete floor. Various sculptural objects rest on its surface: a hand-carved bowl holds water and a floating piece of driftwood, chunks of petrified wood and a single smooth, oblong stone are cast like dice.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

For a long time, I’ve anticipated the collapse (or weakening/fracturing or coopting) of current U.S. arts funding streams. Federal, state, and local grant funding, & academic/institutional funding, but also the withdrawal of private foundations afraid of getting caught in political cross-hairs

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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Congrats to Finnegan Shannon, whose work was a touchstone for Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (edited with Rebecca Sanchez, avail. open access) nyupress.org/978147981936...

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Crip Authorship

2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award Winner2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsAn expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writ...

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David Mennessier @isidoreisou.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

UbuWeb · All rivers lead to the same ocean: find your form of resistance, no matter how small, and go hard. It's now or never. ubu.com

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

One thing I am genuinely excited about that is coming out of my current institution :

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Jillian Steinhauer @jilnotjill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I spend quite a bit of money on subscriptions, but at this point I really think the mantra has to be, pay for the media you wish to see in the world

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Truly one of the few things keeping me from sliding into dysfunction and inaction is the physical, bodily pleasure of making things. I treat my art practice more like a bodily function—like eating or drinking water than as as an activity that distracts from urgent community work, mutual aid, etc.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thinking about her: little Lake Michigan driftwood fragment swimming in a new tiny, inland sea. Part of a larger work I’m still building out in the studio this month about cold water swimming as pain relief. 🌀

A short, curved stick from the shores of Lake Michigan floats within a hand-carved wooden bowl, the bottom of which is textured, echoing a rocky, sandy lake floor. The object rests on a quilt made from reflective, recycled tetrapak fragments

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Body Art by Laura D @handle.invalid · 27/01/2025

Added @mikedangeli.bsky.social to the Indigenous Artists of Bluesky Starter Pack Vol. 1 Check out Vol. 1-3 in my Starter Packs for more Indigenous Artists to follow on Bluesky. If you're an Indigenous Artist and would like to be added comment below or send my a DM. go.bsky.app/CgoknnP

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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a collective research effort (w/ @harriskornstein.bsky.social among many others) to document ableism & disability activism in NYC during the first 4 years of COVID-19. Out next month from @nyupress.bsky.social -- a surprise of advance copies in yesterday's mail:

Photograph of the book How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic on a wood shelf next to a vase with red tulips. The book has a black paperback cover featuring a blue surgical mask printed with the title in red. The cover image was created by the artists The Brothers Sick, Ezra and Noah Benus. In the bottom right hand corner in white print are listed the editors' names: Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg, Rayna Rapp

A photograph of two pages from the color insert in the middle of How to be Disabled in a Pandemic. Two dried mushrooms are being used as paperweights to hold the book open. On the left page is a photograph of an installation in Washington Square Park titled Curtain Armor by Chong Gu and Yin Q. The artwork was part of a vigil organized by Red Canary Song commemorating the 8 lives lost during a shooting at an Asian massage parlor in Atlanta on March 16, 2021. Curtain armor is composed of two massage tables, set in Washington Square, and surrounded by white curtains on which hang portraits. On the right hand page is a photograph titled View of Protest Traveling Down Park Row, taken by autistic photographer Christopher Lucka during the Black Lives Matter protests in New York City in summer 2020.

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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 20/01/2025

Two Coats put together a list of other people you’d like to hang out with at an opening —> go.bsky.app/UfTv98D

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

artlinks artlinks yayyyyyyy artlinks!

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I love seeing people’s art but I also love hearing the ways artists think. For visual artists newly arriving to text based platforms & missing image-sharing, I offer some ways to lean into this form as it is:

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It was amazing to see the multiple bylines below headlines about the impact of the fires on artists and the art community in LA from the NYTimes and Hyperallergic. It also highlighted the difference in resources compared to ARTnews.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I strongly identify with this yellow-clad cautious lad. Welcome @goblinpurwin.bsky.social ☀️

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Some of my favorite artists are trickling in and it’s making me, dare I say, hopeful (?)

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Some questions I’m working with in my practice: How does it feel to be porous? For the membrane that separates your body from its environment to thin, tear, or dissolve? What do we absorb in this state of vulnerability? What if this sublime merging is also the byproduct of pain, injury, or illness?

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I’ve been thinking a lot about the mixed feelings many people are holding about the necessity of virtual spaces for community organizing and the dissemination of creative work—which for many artists, writers, scholars, etc—are intertwined.

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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Los Angeles: the Getty Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation have partnered with the Center for Cultural Innovation to provide relief for Cali artists and creatives affected by the wildfires. The application portal opens on Jan 20 at 9 am PST—bookmark this page www.cciarts.org

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:: CCI :: Center for Cultural Innovation ::

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 19/01/2025

Go find your local mutual aid group. Who is feeding folks? Who is doing housing work? Who is showing up to defend unhoused folks from sweeps? Who is distributing narcan? Who is coordinating rides for people to get to the doctor? Find those people, in your community, and show up.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

In reading about about artists impacted by the fires, I think first of the many artists who already live in precarious conditions, who, for example, routinely lose parts of their own archives to housing instability. I appreciate these pieces recognizing LA artists as workers / community members.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is what I want from all my favorite people. Tell me what’s feeding you.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!) Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled... As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

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Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts

Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 29/11/2024

SHANNEN'S HERE! There's a starter pack for museum educators here: go.bsky.app/TmLZnrc (I'll add you to it with your permission?) There's also a Museum Ed feed (search for it in 'feeds' and pin it!)

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erin l. durban @erindurban.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m sure there are more folks out there who I haven’t connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if you’d like to be added! ❤️ #disability #anthropology #ethnography #CriticalDisabilityStudies

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Regardless of your interest in art market dynamics, this is a great overview of Indigenous artists working today, and may be especially helpful to educators who want to keep their curriculum current and direct students toward contemporary Indigenous art references.

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 19/12/2024

Every day someone tells me 'kids these days' don't read maps. But many kids are driven between home and school through communities that are actively hostile to unaccompanied minors. What do those kids need a map for? Map literacy is a problem. The tragedy is that kids don't have a reason for it.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This was my morning reading today and as someone who went through higher education modeled on Bauhaus principles, I found this particular account and framing of that pedagogy really insightful.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I’m spending a week listening to a lake thanks to @kallipearl.bsky.social and many many other radio beloveds who have sheltered and fed me and driven me around and checked my equipment set up and reminded me that I do, in fact, love making audio work very very much.

Ariana, dressed in warm winter layers, sits at the edge of a concrete jetty, dangling the long wire of a hydrophone into the turquoise waters of Lake Michigan. They hold a Zoom H5N recorder in their other hand and wear large over-ear headphones.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I am at the stage of MFA thesis time where I seriously need to consolidate and clarify ideas in forms that are legible to others. But I keep getting sucked into the immensely gratifying task of making increasingly elaborate mind maps:

A screenshot of Ariana’s Apple Free Form board library, featuring several thumbnails of densely connected, color coded mind maps.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Or maybe the distinction that I’m making here, rather than between the professional and the personal, is between two different kinds of spaces that operate at different speeds.

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Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Hi friends, now that I better understand how Blue Sky works I’ve made a new account and am re-following existing friends/close contacts. 🌻💛

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