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The post went live on Instagram on March 25, a year ago: âCalling All Knitters! We need squares in any color you have at home, using up scraps to help us create an amazing blanket.â The idea, as Colvilleâs Molly Molloy and Lucinda Chambers explained it, was to give their followers a lockdown activity, to trigger a collective impulse to connect; then theyâd put the squares together and auction off the blanket to benefit CADMI, a Milan, Italy, refuge for women suffering from domestic abuse. Before long, Molloy and Chambers had enough squares for five blankets. Next week, two of the five will be offered at Sothebyâs Contemporary Curated auction in London.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
As part of the Smithsonian’s third annual (and first virtual) Women Filmmakers Festival, artist, filmmaker, and writer Mariam Ghani will join Saisha Grayson, time-based media curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Sabrina Sholts, curator of biological anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, for a conversation about the history of pandemics. The conversation will include clips of her film
DIS-EASE, which delves into themes of illness and invasion as well as excerpts from her in-progress short
The Fire Next Time, which traces the connection between epidemics and social upheaval from the 1800s to the present. Through the end of the week, Ghani’s feature-length documentary
Harry Bilinsky, age 94, of Benwood, WV passed away March 1, 2021.
Born April 26, 1926 to the late Frank and Mary Bilinsky. Proudly serving, Harry, a WWII veteran, enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the age of 16, stationed in Washington D.C. and aboard the USS Intrepid. At birth, he was baptized Catholic but also attended Bible study at the Follansbee United Methodist Church.
A man of many admirable traits, and a blessing to his community, Harry never knew a stranger and helped anyone in need no matter the task at hand. Harry had an innate sense of unconditional love, always giving with the utmost of generosity and never expecting in return. This care was not only extended to people, but also to animals, often feeding dogs and birds which greatly looked forward to his arrival. Nearly every day, Harry was out walking or riding his bicycle, but usually he did both.
Jackie Nickerson’s ‘Field Test’ Offers a New Way to See PPE and Plastic
Women s Wear Daily (WWD) 3/4/2021 Kristen Tauer
Like many artists, the pandemic has affected how photographer Jackie Nickerson works. She’s unable to travel as much as in past years, and although she’s still been shooting for clients in the U.K., the extra time has meant she’s been able to refocus her attention on her personal projects. And while the need for personal protective equipment is influencing how artists make work in collaboration, Nickerson has been mulling the impact of PPE for years. It’s an exploration that plays out in her recent series of photographs, “Field Test,” on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.
Jack Shainman Gallery opens an exhibition featuring a new body of work by Jackie Nickerson
Jackie Nickerson, Underground Farm I, 2019. Digital c-print, 48 x 60 inches (print) Ed.1,1AP. Images courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Field Test, a new body of work by Jackie Nickerson. With photographic compositions that are almost sculptural in nature, there is a stunning materiality to these anonymous portrait-like photographs, in which faces are shrouded, shielded, perhaps suffocated both literally, by the vibrant, textured plastics that wrap each figure, and metaphorically, by the consumerism of the modern world.