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Panel from Júlía Hermannsdóttir’s Always Thirsty

In the coming weeks I’ll be leading a workshop and moderating a couple of panels, including one panel at the Brooklyn Museum that I put together and am really excited to share. Details with links below:

[Workshop]
How Do Artists Get Paid?
A look at how artists can deal with the question of payment and think about building a sustainable practice.
Wed, April 16, 2014, from 6-8pm
at the Lower East Side Printshop
307 West 37th Street, 6th Fl, New York, NY 10018
Registration is required; fee varies
webpage

[Panel]
Unpaid Labor in the Arts – Art Workers Rights and Wages
Pretty much just what the title says, but I’m hoping to throw in a couple of interesting twists.
Sun, April 27, 2014, at 5pm
at Radio Bushwick
22 Wyckoff Ave, New York, NY 11237
No registration needed; free
webpage (site currently has wrong date, they are fixing it, it’s the 27th)

[Panel – the one I’m really excited about]
The Art of Feeling: Contemporary Arts Writing and the Internet
How feminism and feelings intersect with internet-based arts writing.
Thur, May 1, 2014 at 7pm
at the Brooklyn Museum
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238
No registration needed; free with museum admission
webpage

By Alexis

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her creative work has been published, produced, and screened in venues across the US, Europe, and South America. Her feature-length documentary film, All We’ve Got, premiered in the fall of 2019 in New York City and has since screened around the US and internationally. Her play Unknown also premiered in October 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other plays of hers have been produced, published, and anthologized across the US and the UK over the past two decades. Her prose writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, American Theatre, The Brooklyn Rail, and Nature, among others, and she is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic. In addition to her writing and filmmaking, she is currently serving on the Executive Board of CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY), as a Coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a co-founder of Little Rainbows, a queer story time for children and their caretakers.

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