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last updated March 2023Publications
“Week 47: “Philip Glass, ‘Metamorphosis One’,” Endless Playlist at Wendy’s Subway, March 2023
“On Fernando A. Flores’s Valleyesque,” Tupelo Quarterly, September 2022
“A Review of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint,” Tupelo Quarterly, September 2022
“On Hasanthika Sirisena’s Dark Tourist,” Tupelo Quarterly, September 2022
“The View from Pooh Corner,” profile on the painter Robert S. Neuman, DecorMaine, The Art Issue, No. 4, June 2022
“Olivia Fredricks: Spring St.,” exhibition essay for Spring St. at Maine College of Art & Design, June 2021
“Change With(out) a Revolution: Where Institutions Fail Us,” Boston Art Review, Issue 06: Timestamp, Winter 2021
“Highlights from Maine,” Boston Art Review, Issue 05: No Boundaries, Summer 2020
“The Seduction of Marcie Bronstein’s Watercolors,” from Being Here: Marcie Jan Bronstein, Watercolor Paintings, Zillman Art Museum at the University of Maine, March 2020
"Desire in Walking and Language," Critics Page: for Dr. Jessamine Batario, guest critic, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2020
Essay for Meghan Brady’s Paper Paintings, Publication Studio: Hudson, January 2020
"The Affidamento of Bianca Beck and Sascha Braunig," The Chart, January 2020
"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
"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
"Matthew Barney’s Gold Standard: Sex, Violence, & Fundament," with Douglas W. Milliken, The Chart, March 2016
"Talking to the Walls: Interviews with Portland Mural Initiative," Dispatch Magazine, September 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
“Week 47: “Philip Glass, ‘Metamorphosis One’,” Endless Playlist at Wendy’s Subway, March 2023
“On Fernando A. Flores’s Valleyesque,” Tupelo Quarterly, September 2022
“A Review of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint,” Tupelo Quarterly, September 2022
“On Hasanthika Sirisena’s Dark Tourist,” Tupelo Quarterly, September 2022
“The View from Pooh Corner,” profile on the painter Robert S. Neuman, DecorMaine, The Art Issue, No. 4, June 2022
“Olivia Fredricks: Spring St.,” exhibition essay for Spring St. at Maine College of Art & Design, June 2021
“Change With(out) a Revolution: Where Institutions Fail Us,” Boston Art Review, Issue 06: Timestamp, Winter 2021
“Highlights from Maine,” Boston Art Review, Issue 05: No Boundaries, Summer 2020
“The Seduction of Marcie Bronstein’s Watercolors,” from Being Here: Marcie Jan Bronstein, Watercolor Paintings, Zillman Art Museum at the University of Maine, March 2020
"Desire in Walking and Language," Critics Page: for Dr. Jessamine Batario, guest critic, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2020
Essay for Meghan Brady’s Paper Paintings, Publication Studio: Hudson, January 2020
"The Affidamento of Bianca Beck and Sascha Braunig," The Chart, January 2020
"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
"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
"Matthew Barney’s Gold Standard: Sex, Violence, & Fundament," with Douglas W. Milliken, The Chart, March 2016
"Talking to the Walls: Interviews with Portland Mural Initiative," Dispatch Magazine, September 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
Curation
2021
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene · University of New England, Biddeford ME
2018
THIS DESIRE · Able Baker Contemporary, Portland ME
2014
citydrift/Portland · SPACE Gallery, Zero Station, & Open Bench Project, Portland ME
2021
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene · University of New England, Biddeford ME
2018
THIS DESIRE · Able Baker Contemporary, Portland ME
2014
citydrift/Portland · SPACE Gallery, Zero Station, & Open Bench Project, Portland ME
Projects & Exhibitions
ongoing
The Chart (2015–present) · Co-Founder + Editor, arts journal that supports creative dialogue through online publishing, print anthologies, and IRL programming, Portland ME/online
2020–2022
The Record · Editor + co-organizer, archive of artists-in-residence at Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland, ME
2021
Ellis-Beauregard Fellows and Residents · Cove Street Arts, Portland ME
2020
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon · hosted by The Chart in collaboration with the Portland Museum of Art as part of the Dream Action Factory for Carrie Moyer + Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, Portland, ME
2019
The Chart: Visiting Critic Lecture Series · featuring Jacquelyn Gleisner (The Chart's 2019 Critic-in-Residence), Andy Johnson, Jordan Amirkhani, James McAnally, and Leah Triplett Harrington, Portland, ME
2018
Pickwick A–Z · Center for Maine Craft, Gardiner, ME
THIS DESIRE · Able Baker Contemporary, Portland ME
The Chart: Visiting Critic Lecture + Residency · featuring Imani Roach, Portland, ME
2017
MTV Crits! for the Waking Windows Festival · Episode 6 at ètaín boutique, Portland ME
MTV Crits! · Episode 5 at The Bearded Lady's Jewel Box, Portland ME
MTV Crits! · Episode 4 at ètaín boutique, Portland ME
Far Away/Home · curated by Nika Knight, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath ME
Pop-Up Artist Conversation · curated by Portland Mural Initiative, South Portland ME
2016
MTV Crits! · Co-Creator + Co-Host · series of themed music video screenings + pop culture critiques in collaboration with Nadia Prupis, Episodes 1–3 at Institute for American Art, Portland ME
SPACE Studios Summer Show Part One · SPACE Gallery Annex, Portland ME
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, full opera · Lead Visual Artist (installation, costumes, graphic design) · collaborative spoken opera with Megan Grumbling, Denis Nye, Tess Van Horn, and Corey Anderson, SPACE Gallery, Portland ME
2015
The Royal Open · curated by Douglas W. Milliken and Genevieve Johnson, Royal River Park, Falmouth ME
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, movement one · Lead Visual Artist (installation, costumes, graphic design) · collaborative spoken opera with Megan Grumbling, Denis Nye, Tess Van Horn, and Corey Anderson, The Apohadion, Portland ME
2014
(Mis)fortunes · performance collaboration with Douglas W. Milliken at Sacred & Profane, Battery Steele, Peak's Island ME
citydrift/Portland · Executive Curator (and participant as Saula Wit) · SPACE Gallery Annex, Zero Station, & Open Bench Project, Portland ME
A Rebus of Identical Selves · collaborative performance & installation with Douglas W. Milliken, Artists at Work Storefront, Maine College of Art, Portland ME
2013
citydrift/Detroit · curated by Jennifer Junkermeier, Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit MI
2012
Public Space: Cairo · Lead Artist · Townhouse Gallery, Cairo Egypt
Reverb + Echo · collaborative two-person show with Keith Lane, Studio Gallery, Washington DC
a pair of scopes · two-person show at Studio Gallery, Washington DC
2010
what if we · collaboration with Christina Bechstein & Megan O'Connell, Portland ME, Washington DC, & Detroit MI
2009
i need you, i love you · collaborative exhibition with Claire Houston, Rabelais, Portland ME
Portland Paper Project · Whitney Art Works, Portland ME
2008
Meditations on Community · solo show, Rabelais, Portland ME
2007
Maine College of Art Thesis Exhibition · Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland ME
The Storyhouse Project · collaboration with The Telling Room & Maine College of Art, multiple venues in Portland, Lewiston, & Scarborough ME
2006
Next Generation V · Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport ME
Grants, Residencies, & Honors
2022
Vermont Studio Center, Writing Residency and Fellowship · Johnson VT
2020
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Project Grant for The Chart
2019
Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation Grant for The Chart (2019–20)
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Project Grant for The Chart
2018
Pace House Residency · Stonington, ME
Maine Arts Commission Project Grant for Artists
Kindling Fund Grant for The Chart · SPACE Gallery as part of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program
Common Field/Field Grant · Writer-in-Residence program, a collaboration between Artspace New Haven (New Haven, CT) with Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), and The Chart (ME)
2017
Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation Grant for The Chart (2017–18)
Hewnoaks Artist Colony · Lovell ME
2016
Hewnoaks Artist Colony · Lovell ME
2015
Maine Arts Commission Project Grant for Artists for The Chart
Kindling Fund Grant for The Chart · SPACE Gallery as part of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program
2014
Hewnoaks Artist Colony · Lovell ME
2013
Hewnoaks Artist Colony · Lovell ME
2008
Ragdale Foundation · Lake Forest IL
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts · Deer Isle ME
Panels & Talks
2020
Art+Feminism Panel Discussion · hosted by Jenna Crowder (The Chart) with Julien Langevin (artist), Lareese Hall (Director of the Colby College Libraries), and Marcia Minter (Indigo Arts Alliance) at the Portland Museum of Art as part of the Dream Action Factory for Carrie Moyer + Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, Portland, ME
2019
"Field Futures?" · mini-presentations with Eva Aguila, Eepi Chaad, Andreana Donahue, Vashti DuBois, Kristan Kennedy, Aaron Levy, Conrad Meyers and Willis Meyers, Jessica Moss, S. Rodriguez, Ekrem Serdar, Christina Vassallo, Mary Welcome, & Nicholas Wylie, organized by Aurora Tang and Courtney Fink, Common Field Convening, Philadelphia PA
2017
"Strategic Criticism: Toward an Arts Writers' Coalition" · panel discussion + session with James McAnally, Sarrita Hunn, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Eunsong Kim, Jessica Lynne, and Cameron Shaw, Common Field Convening, Los Angeles CA
"MTV Crits! dismantle the patriarchy + have fun doing it" · PechaKucha artist talk, Engine, Biddeford ME
Selected Bibliography
Benjamin Sutton, Artists and Arts Workers Call on Institutions to Reject Calling Trump’s Border Wall Art, Hyperallergic, February 6, 2018.
Will Fenstermaker, "Follow These 8 Artist-Run Blogs To Keep Up With Art Criticism Today", Artspace, June 28, 2017.
Deirdre Fulton, “Persephone, In the Era of Us: spoken word opera at SPACE is harsh reckoning with climate change”, Portland Phoenix, May 16, 2016.
Nick Schroeder, "Blurring art and life — a conversation with citydrift executive curator Jenna Crowder", Portland Phoenix, August 31, 2014.