MORTAL WORK, NOT LABOR: AN INTERVIEW WITH LEIGH DAVIS WRITTEN BY CLAIRE DONATO

Loved talking to Claire Donato about my recent work.

Link to the full interview here.

Upcoming/Ongoing Projects in JUNE

     Letting Go, Holding Space, & Moving Through

     June 22, 2024, 3-5pm 

To conclude Washington Project for the Art's 2024 Open Call series, Where should we start? DC-based artist Adrienne Gaither and I responded to the prompt with: We start by addressing our shared grief.

Letting Go, Holding Space, & Moving Through is a 3-part participatory grief ceremony to come together and meet this moment of genocide(s), oppression, and personal loss that we are collectively experiencing. So much is happening daily—this is an offering to move through the insurmountable level of grief with communal support. The ceremony will include a eulogy, a guided moment of silence, prompts to provide reflective space(s) for our grief, and a restorative tea blend. 

Our work has been shaped in collaboration with Marissa Glonek, LMSW, iele paloumpis, a death doula, and Brianna Hernández, an artist. Additionally, attendees will experience a floral work by Genevieve Villamora, a tea blend by DeCarla Martin, and T. Wise will be supporting as a facilitator. Thank you to all these incredible humans. Planning this collaboration has already offered so much.

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 June 22 – August 17, 2024 at Art Enables, Washington, DC

Later this month, I’ll be participating in an evolving collaboration with artists from Art Enables, STABLE, & Red Dirt Studio. Art Enables is a gallery and vocational arts program dedicated to creating opportunities for artists with disabilities to make, market, and earn income from their original and compelling artwork. It is by far one of my favorite art spaces in DC.

 HUMAN RESOURCES, extended through June 23 at Grizzly      Grizzly (Philadelphia). 

Human Resources at Grizzly Grizzly, Philadephia, PA

If you’re interested in learning more about this installation, check out my upcoming interview with writer Claire Donato on Grizzly’s blog Speak Speak. 

I also did a short interview with Heather Moqtaderi of Past Present Projects, where I’ve previously exhibited work. If you go and sit with these videos, please let me know. I loved making them so much.