BIO/CV 🐚

RECENT & SELECT WRITING 🌿

Art Institution as Collaborative, Living Laboratory: An Interview with Iris Williamson

& Magazine, Maine College of Art & Design, Winter 24–25

Angels, Birth, Rainbows, Boats, and more: a glimpse into the mind of Dylan Hausthor

& Magazine, Maine College of Art & Design, Winter 24–25

Collaborative Magic: Makena Schwab on the Cooperative Power of Animation

& Magazine, Maine College of Art & Design, Winter 24–25

Izzy Van den Heuvel: Someplace I Might Call Home

Exhibition essay for Ghost Stories for the Faint of Heart, Zand Head Gallery at Maine College of Art & Design, Fall 2024. (RISO printed by Claire Christensen)

The Intuitive Gesture: A Sit Down with Artist Katherine Bradford

DecorMaine, The Art Issue, June 2023

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

Olivia Fredricks: Spring St.

Exhibition essay for Spring St., Zand Head Gallery at Maine College of Art & Design, June 2021. (RISO printed by Pilar Nadal of Pickwick Independent Press)

Change With(out) a Revolution: Where Institutions Fail Us

Boston Art Review, Issue 06: Timestamp, Winter 2021

Desire in Walking and Language

Critics Page, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2020

Essay for Megan Brady’s Paper Paintings

Publication Studio Hudson, 2020

The Affidamento of Bianca Beck and Sascha Braunig

The Chart, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 2019/2020

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

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

Temporary Art Review, June 2018

SELECT PROJECTS 🌔

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)

© Jenna Crowder 2007–2025

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current reading recommendations
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty

JENNA CROWDER