VISUAL, CURATORIAL, PARTICIPATORY
The Chart
2015–present
online arts journal, annual print anthologies, & visiting critic programming
This Desire
2018
exhibition at Able Baker Contemporary (curator)![]()
MTV Crits!
2016–17
participatory music video screenings + discussion
Peculiar Constellations
2016–17
monoprints![]()
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene
2014–16
collaborative spoken opera
citydrift/Portland
2014
multi-site meta event (curator)![]()
A Rebus of Identical Selves
2014
performative installation with Douglas W. Milliken![]()
Public Space: Cairo
2012
collaborative project-based inquiry into site + space
i need you, i love you
2009–10
works on paper
These are just words. These are not just words.
2007
text installation![]()
The Chart
2015–present
online arts journal, annual print anthologies, & visiting critic programming
This Desire
2018
exhibition at Able Baker Contemporary (curator)
MTV Crits!
2016–17
participatory music video screenings + discussion
Peculiar Constellations
2016–17
monoprints
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene
2014–16
collaborative spoken opera
citydrift/Portland
2014
multi-site meta event (curator)
A Rebus of Identical Selves
2014
performative installation with Douglas W. Milliken
Public Space: Cairo
2012
collaborative project-based inquiry into site + space
i need you, i love you
2009–10
works on paper
These are just words. These are not just words.
2007
text installation
WRITING
"A conversation amongst two artist writers who witnessed the performance together," with Imani Roach, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Volume 15, Issue 2, May/June 2019
"Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art," Art Papers — 42.04, Winter 2018/2019
"Heavy Water: Erin Johnson at the Jepson Center, Savannah," BURNAWAY, March 2019![]()
"A Conversation Between Jenna Crowder and Carly Glovinski," ed. Olivia Fountain, The Lantern, December 2018
"Language at the Edges of Legality: Aliza Shvarts at Artspace New Haven," Temporary Art Review, June 2018![]()
"The Poetics of Henri Paul Broyard's Interiors," The Rib, March 2018
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ENTER RURAL SCENE, ed. Vivian Ewing, Portland: Wash and Fold Press, 2017
"Scholarship, Power, & the Agency of Place: Beth Finch on Marsden Hartley," The Chart, August 2017
"Temp to Perm proves a need for a shared language of public art," The Chart, June 2017
"Essay: In Maine, If There's an Artistic Will, There's a Way," VICE Creators, March 2017
The Chart Anthology: 2015–2016. Portland: The Chart, 2016
"Ann Hirsch, IRL," The Chart, August 2016![]()
"The Ambling Aesthetics of PLATFORM PROJECTS/WALKS," The Chart, August 2016
"Rewriting An Unrealized History of War: Fortress Brass on Fort Gorges," The Chart, June/July 2016
"Predicting Future Weather: an interview with Anna Wolfe-Pauly & Erin Colleen Johnson," The Chart, June/July 2016![]()
"If You’re Reading This…," The Chart, April/May 2016
"Matthew Barney’s Gold Standard: Sex, Violence, & Fundament," (co-written with Douglas W. Milliken), The Chart, March 2016![]()
"What is our Common Field? notes from Hand in Glove 2015," The Chart, October 2015
"Talking to the Walls: Interviews with Portland Mural Initiative," Dispatch Magazine, September 2015
"Drifting + sharing at The Royal Open," The Chart, August 2015
"Better With Foam: Richard Keen's FOREandAFT at Oxbow Blending & Bottling," Dispatch Magazine, August 2015
"How Many Followers? Alina Gallo at SPACE Gallery," Dispatch Magazine, July 2015![]()
"A conversation amongst two artist writers who witnessed the performance together," with Imani Roach, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Volume 15, Issue 2, May/June 2019
"Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art," Art Papers — 42.04, Winter 2018/2019
"Heavy Water: Erin Johnson at the Jepson Center, Savannah," BURNAWAY, March 2019
"A Conversation Between Jenna Crowder and Carly Glovinski," ed. Olivia Fountain, The Lantern, December 2018
"Language at the Edges of Legality: Aliza Shvarts at Artspace New Haven," Temporary Art Review, June 2018
"The Poetics of Henri Paul Broyard's Interiors," The Rib, March 2018
ENTER RURAL SCENE, ed. Vivian Ewing, Portland: Wash and Fold Press, 2017
"Scholarship, Power, & the Agency of Place: Beth Finch on Marsden Hartley," The Chart, August 2017
"Temp to Perm proves a need for a shared language of public art," The Chart, June 2017
"Essay: In Maine, If There's an Artistic Will, There's a Way," VICE Creators, March 2017
The Chart Anthology: 2015–2016. Portland: The Chart, 2016
"Ann Hirsch, IRL," The Chart, August 2016
"The Ambling Aesthetics of PLATFORM PROJECTS/WALKS," The Chart, August 2016
"Rewriting An Unrealized History of War: Fortress Brass on Fort Gorges," The Chart, June/July 2016
"Predicting Future Weather: an interview with Anna Wolfe-Pauly & Erin Colleen Johnson," The Chart, June/July 2016
"If You’re Reading This…," The Chart, April/May 2016
"Matthew Barney’s Gold Standard: Sex, Violence, & Fundament," (co-written with Douglas W. Milliken), The Chart, March 2016
"What is our Common Field? notes from Hand in Glove 2015," The Chart, October 2015
"Talking to the Walls: Interviews with Portland Mural Initiative," Dispatch Magazine, September 2015
"Drifting + sharing at The Royal Open," The Chart, August 2015
"Better With Foam: Richard Keen's FOREandAFT at Oxbow Blending & Bottling," Dispatch Magazine, August 2015
"How Many Followers? Alina Gallo at SPACE Gallery," Dispatch Magazine, July 2015
NEWS
June–September 2019
The Chart presents the 2019 Visiting Critic Lecture Series
Portland, ME
April 25–28, 2019
The Chart at Common Field Convening
Friends Center, Philadelphia, PA
November 2, 2018
Noontime Talk
Readings for an Exhibition: Carly Glovinski and Jenna Crowder in Conversation
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine![]()
October 12–14, 2018
The Chart at the Boston Art Book Fair
Boston Center for the Arts
October 5–6, 2018
The Chart at the New England Art Book Fair
SPACE Gallery
July 28, 2018
Panel Discussion on Deborah Wing-Sproul’s Durational Devices: I–V
Biddeford, Maine![]()
May 4–June 24, 2018
Pickwick A–Z at Center for Maine Craft
Gardiner, Maine
March 23–May 5, 2018
THIS DESIRE: poetics + longing at Able Baker Contemporary
Portland, Maine
December 27, 2017
Wash and Fold Press: Enter Rural Scene
November 2–5, 2017
The Chart at Common Field Convening
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles
October 12, 2017
Field Perspectives 2017
"Airing Out Ambivalence: on cultural care and the allure of judgment" by Ellen Tani was commissioned by The Chart as part of Field Perspectives 2017.![]()
October 6–7, 2017
The Chart at the New England Art Book Fair
SPACE Gallery, Oct 6: 5–9pm, Oct 7: 9am–5pm
September 30, 2017
MTV Crits! at Waking Windows Portland
étaín boutique, 5:30–6:30pm
Episode 6: WITCHES
featuring: Stevie Nicks, Beyoncé, and Princess Nokia (pictured)![]()
June–September 2019
The Chart presents the 2019 Visiting Critic Lecture Series
Portland, ME
April 25–28, 2019
The Chart at Common Field Convening
Friends Center, Philadelphia, PA
November 2, 2018
Noontime Talk
Readings for an Exhibition: Carly Glovinski and Jenna Crowder in Conversation
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
October 12–14, 2018
The Chart at the Boston Art Book Fair
Boston Center for the Arts
October 5–6, 2018
The Chart at the New England Art Book Fair
SPACE Gallery
July 28, 2018
Panel Discussion on Deborah Wing-Sproul’s Durational Devices: I–V
Biddeford, Maine
May 4–June 24, 2018
Pickwick A–Z at Center for Maine Craft
Gardiner, Maine
March 23–May 5, 2018
THIS DESIRE: poetics + longing at Able Baker Contemporary
Portland, Maine
December 27, 2017
Wash and Fold Press: Enter Rural Scene
November 2–5, 2017
The Chart at Common Field Convening
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles
October 12, 2017
Field Perspectives 2017
"Airing Out Ambivalence: on cultural care and the allure of judgment" by Ellen Tani was commissioned by The Chart as part of Field Perspectives 2017.
October 6–7, 2017
The Chart at the New England Art Book Fair
SPACE Gallery, Oct 6: 5–9pm, Oct 7: 9am–5pm
September 30, 2017
MTV Crits! at Waking Windows Portland
étaín boutique, 5:30–6:30pm
Episode 6: WITCHES
featuring: Stevie Nicks, Beyoncé, and Princess Nokia (pictured)
© Jenna Crowder 2019 🌿 current reading recommendation:"How to Do Nothing" by Jenny Odell