Projects, Politics, and Travel Plans

It’s been a whirlwind spring that turned into a whirlwind summer that, somehow, is nearly almost fall?!

In May I finished my Beatrice Terry Residency at the Drama League with a lovely presentation of How to Put On a Sock. So many thanks to the wonderful performers, managers, and designers who made it happen: Janice Amaya, Yonatan Gebeyehu, Aubyn Heglie, Rachel Sachnoff, Sean Byrum Leo, Jacob Russell, and Alex Haddad. And of course a HUGE thank you to The Drama League, who has been a beacon of support to me for so long.

In May I also created a utopic pro-abortion zine with incredible visual artist Becky Bailey, whom I got to know at my residency at Monson Arts in Maine last December. The zine was instigated by another incredible visual artist, Lydia Nobles. It happened to launch a few days after the leaked draft of the anti-abortion Supreme Court decision, featured in what turned out to be an especially well-timed Abortion Stories arts festival. Check out the zine here, and add what you want the future of abortion to be:

Speaking of abortion: I’m gearing up to go to Vermont for a month in September, as a resident at Marble House Project in Dorset. While I’m there I’ll be doing… something about abortion! So much has changed since my last residency for my VIP abortion project at Monson Arts in December. I’m looking forward to having a solid set of weeks to revisit what I made and rethink completely what is needed in this very new moment.

With my wonderful job at the Center for Artistic Activism — where I’ve worked since early COVID, and where, since the start of this year, I’ve been running its voting program — I’ve been getting to do a lot of travel, too: in May I worked with activists in Florida; in June I worked with activists in Texas and Kansas; and in the fall I’ll be going to Wisconsin and Ohio to work with student activists there. It’s been great to get to see so much of the country, and get inspired by people doing such good, hard work in so many places.