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McLean Fahnestock: I wanted to talk to you because I am really interested in your work. I work a lot with appropriated images and I was struck by the surveillance images that you have been using for a long time now, in the different photographic processes, and how that has evolved over the past 15 years. You began manipulating images of airplanes in C-prints to now you are creating digitally manipulated patterns -- I don’t know if you call them co...

The book is an object divided, bound in dualities: left & right, intimate & social, verbal & visual, touchable & immortal. With an interdisciplinary approach that includes printmaking, weaving, installation, and poetry, my work is centered around the book and its power to influence how we view and tolerate contradictions. - Elysia Mann, 2017 Elysia Mann, Studio Visit, March 2017 Elysia Mann, Studio Visit, March 2017 Elysia Mann, Studio Visit, March 2017 Originally from rural Nebraska, Elysia Mann earned her BFA in visual art from Washington University...

Carolyn Jobe and Brian R. Jobe have been named the new Co-Executive Directors of NCAP (Nashville Cultural Arts Project), the organization that houses Seed Space. Locate Arts, founded by the Jobes, will now be part of NCAP programming. Seed Space and Locate Arts have been allies in the common pursuit of activating cutting edge contemporary art, and, through this merger, they create a more substantial contemporary art organization that serves all of Tennessee. The Jobes are excited to continue the...