Tag: Finnegan Shannon

A September of Multisensory Art 1: Finnegan Shannon at Pioneer Works, Frame by Frame!

Below are a series of frames from a video I took at the opening of “There’s no me without you,” Finnegan Shannon’s show at Pioneer Works on September 11, 2026. Ariana Martinez’s delightfully tactile artworks are traveling along Finnegan’s conveyer belt for us to interact with. We were among the first to arrive. I excitedly started picking objects up and… Read more

NYPL Works In Progress Talk with David Lowe, Photography Specialist

On October 19, 2023, I was honored to present my work-in-progress as a 2023-24 NYPL Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library. Thanks to Deirdre Donohue and David Lowe for supporting this talk with their brilliance and kindness! The entire talk with ASL interpreters is below as a Vimeo link and my lecture notes follow.     Face of… Read more

A Quartet of Image Descriptions for Paul Strand’s “Blind Woman” (1917)

A picture speaks a thousand words, so lay them on me! Paul Strand’s “Blind Woman” is the first photograph I wrote about as my writing sample for Face of the Blind: Essays on Photography, as part of my successful application to be a New York Public Library Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow this year. As I wrote in my proposal, image description is… Read more