Kara Springer: I / must be given words

Patel Brown

Essay for Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning 

“Maria Sabina,” Mushroom People

Critic’s Picks:
Catalina Ouyang at Lyles and King, Artforum

“To Be a Vessel for the Invisible,” Cite Magazine

“I Turn My Body Toward the Sun”

for what flies but never lands? curated by Minh Nguyen, Chicago Cultural Center, June 1 - Sept 5, 2021

“Summaeverythang,” Frieze

“Breaking the Art World's ‘Closed Circle,’” Frieze

“Much of Early Black Cinema is Lost, but Garrett Bradley's Lyrical Films Restore its Potential,” Art in America

“The Price of Success: PESTS' Struggle for Art World Visibility in the 1980s,” The Core Program Yearbook

“Doreen Garner’s Visceral, Bodily Sculptures Confront Racial Trauma,” Hyperallergic

“An Indigenous Artist Collective that Raises the Bar,” Hyperallergic

“A Poetics of Survival: A Conversation with Demian DinéYazhi´,” Temporary Art Review

“Autumn Knight's Sanity TV,” Art Practical

“Are you Being Preached to? Again? How Adrian Piper’s Meta-Art Imagined a Socially Engaged Art World,” Temporary Art Review

“Documenta 14: Learning From Athens, Learning From Crisis,” Art F City

“Break it Down, Break it Open: A Conversation with Physical Education,” Temporary Art Review

“Ann Hirsch: Playground at JOAN,” Daily Serving

Presentations and Workshops

Decolonial Strategies for the Art History Classroom

Pedagogical workshop co-led with Amber Hickey at the College Art Association conference, New York. February 13.

Counterimages: Constructing the Self/Image as Counter-Hegemonic Practice

College Art Association conference, Los Angeles. February 21.

‘The Right to History’: Institutional Critique through Direct Action

For "No Neutral Art, No Neutral Art Historians" Concordia University AHGSA conference, Montreal. January 28-29th.

Queering Narcissism: Reinterpreting the Politics of Self-Imaging in Feminist Art

Panel Presentation for Theorizing the Web Conference, NYC. April 16th.