Artists raise children and steward found families. They feed their friends and neighbors, run errands, tend to sickness, and sit with death. Artists infiltrate and humanize institutions. The necessity of care work is evident throughout personal and public life, yet it often is uncompensated and devalued. Who are the creatives and civic practitioners embedded in and broadcasting from these margins? What old knowledge and new futures emerge when artists couple care work to creative practice? Creative Care examines how artists practice, engage with, and foster care while recognizing the creative labor it takes to nurture themselves and others.
A conversation between two Walker Art Center educators that explores the intent of using and speaking land acknowledgments into one’s space, particularly that of a public institution.
Anna Marie Shogren pulls from interdisciplinary experience as a dance artist, a hospice CNA, and writer to question the capacity of a written score to support or invite care.
