Published in Ceramics Monthly, April 2019
"…at NCECA 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I was drawn to a panel entitled “The Art of Otherness” and also similarly, my experience of the panel further fuelled my zeal to make a difference in the way we, as artists whom are othered or marginalized are afforded platforms to tell our stories. The panelists were drawn from the exhibition, “We Are Not Invisible,” curated by Amanda Barr who brought together over 30 femme and non-binary artists. The art was about gender, sexuality, culture, religion, race, oppression, class, mental illness, physical disability, motherhood, societal demands on women, politics, and more. The artists’ slogan, “Art is our voice.” “The Art of Otherness” moderator, Courtney Leonard, navigated artists Raven Halfmoon, Habiba El-Sayed, and Mac McCusker through raw and vulnerable territory. Each of the panelists presented their work and spoke to the importance of push-back in the face of a perceived sense of complacency around the misguided belief that we are living in progressive, post-racial, post-marginalized times..."
