Ways to Hang Three Dimensional Art
by Erin Keane, RAC Intern
I’ve been inspired by the way that Kate Wadkins has displayed the Brainwaves collection at RAC. Lots of three dimensional art is really beautiful and interesting, but you have to get creative with ways to display it. So I looked around RAC and thought about ways that I would display our three dimensional pieces in my home.
First and foremost of course is the Brainwaves display on our gallery wall. If you are anything like our intern Madeline Dahl, you love zines and have more than you know what to do with. Simply letting beautiful art pieces sit on a bookshelf, only viewed when someone picks them up, doesn’t do justice to even the smallest of collections. By taking some rough textured yarn or twine and tying it to nails on the wall you can create the perfect display for zines, magazines, or even light handmade books.
“Working with POC Zine Project has helped me better understand coalition-building between people of color-led movements and white allies. The depth of knowledge, experience, and partnership that Daniela and POCZP have brought into my own life is immeasurable. Thank you for all that you have done, and all that you continue to do! - Kate Wadkins”
—Kate, our longtime ally (as an individual and through For The Birds), recently featured POCZP in her #gratitude12 series. Here’s an additional excerpt from her description of what we do:
They are changing the ways we write, tell, and make history—from zines, to the academy, to the culture at large.
Read the full post here and stay tuned for more orgs and individuals she’ll be highlighting through the end of 2012.
Thanks for the <3, Kate!
- POC Zine Project
ABOUT KATE WADKINS
Kate Wadkins is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer who recently graduated Sarah Lawrence College with an MA in Women’s History. She is the co-editor of International Girl Gang Underground, a compilation zine and corresponding blog about feminist cultural production twenty years after the riot grrrl movement and in the wake of its legacy.
In 2009, she co-founded RE/VISIONIST with four other Sarah Lawrence students. Kate is a contributing writer for Hyperallergic, and has written for New York Daily News (Page Views blog), Maximum Rocknroll, Sadie Magazine, Hoax zine, and Elevate Difference, among others.
She was the gallery manager of Storefront for its two-year lifespan, and has proudly interned for the feminist art-punk band Le Tigre. Of late, she curates BRAIN WAVES, a zine and print collection, and assists for The Punk Singer, a documentary about feminist artist Kathleen Hanna.
Kate is a founding member of For the Birds Collective as well as a classic virgo, coffee enthusiast, bass player, and rabble rouser.
BRAIN WAVES at Storefront tomorrow
My art & illustration zine, Get It Together, will make it’s debut appearance in STOREFRONT’s print/zine collection, BRAIN WAVES tomorrow during the Hermine Ford opening. 6-9pm at 16 Wilson Ave. in Brooklyn. Check out STOREFRONT’s site for more info!
Thank you as always to the unstoppable Kate Wadkins for including me!
