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Jen Graves

Jen Graves—The Stranger’s visual arts writer—writes about things you mostly, but not strictly, approach with your eyeballs. Her writing has been in Art in America, The Believer, and ArtNews, and the Warhol Foundation has given her some money to get lost in land art. She also digs teaching, at places like Cornish College of the Arts and Centrum. Jen has lived and written about art in the Pacific Northwest for 14 years.

Articles by Jen Graves from 2011

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  • Suggests

    ‘surFACE: Contemporary Wet Plate Collodion Portraiture’

    When you sit for a wet-plate collodion portrait, you have to be still, and you have to be still for a while. The lights are hot.
    Posted on 12/28/2011
  • News

    What Happened at Youngstown

    Now that Youngstown's Dark, What Happens to Those Kids?
    Posted on 12/28/2011
  • Visual Art

    Sex Offenders, Christ, and Conceptual Art

    Vanessa Place, Conceptual Poet and Defense Attorney
    Posted on 12/28/2011
  • Visual Art

    What Happened at Youngstown

    Now that Youngstown's Dark, What Happens to Those Kids?
    Posted on 12/28/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Pariah’

    Pariah is a freaking miracle.
    Posted on 12/21/2011
  • Suggests

    Seattle Symphony Plays ‘Doctor Atomic’

    When Doctor Atomic—the opera by revered American composer John Adams (Nixon in China) based on the making of the nuclear bomb in the New Mexican desert—had its world premiere in 2005...
    Posted on 12/21/2011
  • Visual Art

    Robin Held Is Leaving the Frye

    Why Is Seattle's Most Interesting Museum Curator Leaving Museums?
    Posted on 12/21/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Senses’

    For six weeks, “avant-garde confectioner” Victoria Yee Howe—originally from Seattle, now living in New York but back on extended vacation—has been in residency in the kitchen at Arabica Lounge...
    Posted on 12/14/2011
  • Features

    Of Ice and Men

    There Is No Ice at the Capitol Hill Ice Rink
    Posted on 12/14/2011
  • Visual Art

    Church of Wax

    Seattle Art Museum's Curious New Church of the DJ
    Posted on 12/14/2011
  • Visual Art

    Tiny Mammoths

    From the Amazing 2,000-Pound Camera Works of Carleton Watkins
    Posted on 12/14/2011
  • Books

    Tiny Mammoths

    From the Amazing 2,000-Pound Camera Works of Carleton Watkins
    Posted on 12/14/2011
  • Suggests

    Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band

    Woody Allen isn’t kidding with all that unbelievably great music he puts in his movies: He loves it, and he plays it, and he’ll do it right in front of you.
    Posted on 12/07/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Katy Stone: Myriad’

    For years, Seattle artist Katy Stone has been making art out of falling—out of what you might see on your way down.
    Posted on 12/07/2011
  • Visual Art

    Beyond Northwest Mythics

    Pretend These Artists Aren't Important for a Minute
    Posted on 12/07/2011
  • A Very 99 Percent Holiday

    Off the Beaten Path

    Where to Shop in Neighborhoods That Could Use Your Business the Most
    Posted on 12/07/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Time, Wasted’

    Local filmmaker Shaun Scott (Seat of Empire) is a historian DJ.
    Posted on 11/30/2011
  • Visual Art

    Queer Road Trip

    Molly Landreth's Almost-Finished Portrait of Queer Life in America
    Posted on 11/30/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘The Listening Room’

    The artist, Theaster Gates, kept the floodlights in the gallery low so it would feel either like a lounge, he explained, or like a living room after the kids have gone to bed.
    Posted on 11/23/2011
  • Visual Art

    Isaac Layman Still Refuses to Leave the House

    Isaac Layman, His Camera, and the Most Boring Objects Ever
    Posted on 11/23/2011

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