What we're looking at now...
- Nina Pelaez (she/hers)
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 14, 2020
During our first meeting, each member of the Agents for Creative Action each shared something (an artist/ image of a work of art, a clip of a song, a quote from book, poem, tv show, philosophical idea, a photo of something you have seen or experienced...and more) they have been enjoying and/or feeling inspired by lately.
Nina
“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them.
Introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who comes asking for life.
Ask permission before taking. Abide by the answer.
Never take the first. Never take the last. Take only what you need.
Take only that which is given.
Never take more than half. Leave some for others. Harvest in a way that minimizes harm.
Use it respectfully. Never waste what you have taken. Share.
Give thanks for what you have been given.
Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken.
Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.”
-- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer,
Anne
“Design is an accumulation of everything that you perceive.
It is all taken in, chewed, digested and stored for a future time.
When the proper time comes, an idea is born of this...ideas come from an
Accumulation of things and impressions.
-- Gere Kavanaugh, Designer
Chris
"Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools.”
-- “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2012)
Victoria
Koketit
SixnFive
Ingrid
Emily
“But they also remind us that the humans of the past were as human as we are. Their hands indistinguishable from ours. These communities hunted and gathered and there were no large caloric surpluses so every healthy person would’ve had to contribute to the acquisition of food and water. And yet somehow, they still made time to create art, almost as if art isn’t optional for humans”
-- John Green
Rachel
Alex Katz (+ his portraits of Ada)
When asked whether his portraits of Ada actually look like her, Katz responded, “Nothing does.”
I just discovered Museum Archipelago, a podcast that describes itself as a "tiny show guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums....with the belief that no museum is an island and that museums are not neutral".
Each episode is no more than 15 minutes long, and features interviews with a variety of museum workers. They take a broad view of what constitutes a museum!
https://www.museumarchipelago.com/