Disclosure: Whiteness of Glass, Center for Craft, Asheville, nc, 2022
Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass is a project organized by Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, Nate Watson) that builds space for artists of color to build meaningful connections with one another and reexamines collective experiences negotiating systemic racism in the field. We reinterpret DEI data as material, to offer artists an opportunity to reimagine and remake the wounds of systemic racism within a collaborative and elaborate game of telephone. We have seen the impact a lack of representation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color have had on ourselves, our peers, and the artistic community as a whole, and seek to build transformative networks between practitioners in the field that shift those entrenched dynamics and imagine new futures for ourselves. This project is funded and supported by the a 2021-22 Craft Research Fun—Artist Fellowship and Corning Museum of Glass.
The project takes place in 3 stages (between October 2021-March 2022):
1. Drawings: Related Tactics creates a set of visualizations/drawings that look at the impact of a lack of representation in glass institutions, educational spaces, and the broader artistic field.
2. Artist Instructions: A second group of artists creates a set of textual artist instructions that interpret those visualizations and translates them to creative actions. This might be thought of as Fluxus instructions or a performance score. They can be more direct or poetic, but are not 1-to-1 fabrication instructions.
3. Glass Studio Session: A third group of glass artists will gather in a glass studio and work in teams to interpret and enact the artist instructions from the second group. These interpretations may be sculptures or they may be more ephemeral performance actions, as seems most appropriate. The session will take place at the glass studio at Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University.
