Curiosity and Critical Practice
I designed the course “Curiosity and Critical Practice” to help students build their capacity to notice and articulate their questions. I want to help them develop a greater sensitivity to how questions shape our environment, our relationships, and identities, and how these in turn shape research and creative work.
Curiosity Archive
Curiosity Archive is an ongoing project where I document and collect questions I hear around me, especially those my daughter asks me. She and I collaborated to make our first zine, and I’ve made several other small artists’ books from our archive. My goal is to assemble a playful foundation, both physical and digital, from which to create.
I’m Wondering if You Can Help Me With Something…
This correspondence-based studio research project explores what it means to help another person with a question, and to receive help with a question. How do our own practices shift when we labor for someone else’s curiosity? How are our practices shaped by the help we receive?
What Does it Mean to Be Curious?
A discussion series I co-founded and directed from 2015-2019, where panelists from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds have a free-ranging discussion about the nature, capacity, and challenges of curiosity. As we wonder collectively, welcoming multiple voices and perspectives, we build unexpected partnerships and come to inhabit transdisciplinary terrain. We engage in metacognitive, reflective practice, deepening our awareness of ourselves as thinkers, learners, and producers. The curiosity discussion series provides public space for this inner work, supporting people as they formulate new questions and observations.