Developing and creating an engaging experience at the intersection of the arts and mental health was something Taniguchi honed during her time as a Bush Fellow. Through her Fellowship, she gained a deeper understanding of what it means to work on the inner self, how to focus on the work and not worry about results, and how to push.
Boris Oicherman, Ph.D., joined the foundation Monday, Sept. 19, following a national search. He comes to Cleveland from the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, where he was the inaugural Cindy and Jay Ihlenfeld Curator for Creative Collaboration.
May 19, 2021 By Carolyn Coons
Portrait of Sarith Peou. Image courtesy of the Weisman Art Museum and We Are All Criminals.
Sarith Peou, an incarcerated artist at Stillwater Prison in Bayport, Minnesota, was in the midst of a collaboration with artist Carl Flink when he contracted COVID-19 last year.
“At one point, I gave up hope that our work would ever see the daylight,” Peou told the National Endowment for the Arts via email.
Peou and Flink’s already limited communications were disrupted by prison lockdowns caused by outbreaks. According to Marshall Project data, Peou’s case is one of 397,422 COVID-19 cases reported among incarcerated people since mass testing in prisons began.