Jenna Crowder

writer & editor





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RECENT & SELECT WRITING  πŸŒΏ


Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art

Art Papers β€” 42.04, Winter 2018/2019

Heavy Water: Erin Johnson at the Jepson Center, Savannah

BURNAWAY, March 2019

Language at the Edges of Legality: Aliza Shvarts at Artspace New Haven

Temporary Art Review, June 2018


SELECT PROJECTS  πŸŒ”

Joshua Tree National Park Artist Residency

December 2025
Public program:
Cap Rock in Joshua Tree National Park 
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 2pm

The Record: Indigo Arts Alliance Archive

2020–present
managing editor for the archive of artists-in-residence at Indigo Arts Alliance in Portland, Maine

The Chart

2015–2022
online arts journal, annual print anthologies, & visiting critic programming

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene

2021
exhibition at University of New England Galleries (co-curator with Megan Grumbling)

The Chart: Critical Communion

2020
a series of texts commissioned in response to the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and police brutality experienced in Spring 2020

The Chart: Visiting Critic Lecture Series

2019
a summer-long series of residencies, lectures, and dinners with Dr. Jordan Amirkhani, Jacquelyn Gleisner, Andy Johnson, James McAnally, and Leah Triplett Harrington

This Desire

2018
exhibition at Able Baker Contemporary (curator)

MTV Crits!

2016–17
participatory music video screenings + discussion

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, an opera

2014–16
collaborative spoken opera

citydrift/Portland

2014
multi-site meta event (curator)




Β© Jenna Crowder 2007–2025 

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current reading recommendations
Deserts Are Not Empty
edited by Samia Henni

Authority: Essays by Andrea Long Chu
Blackouts by Justin Torres




Β© Jenna Crowder 2007–2026

🌿

current reading recommendations
Deserts Are Not Empty
edited by Samia Henni
Authority: Essays by Andrea Long Chu
Blackouts by Justin Torres