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Contributors
SVETLANA KITTO
Oral Historian
Svetlana Kitto is a writer and oral historian in New
York. Her work has been featured in the New York
Times, Guernica and the book "Occupy!" (Verso). She
also curates the art and reading series Adult
Contemporary. "My favorite thing about interviewing
Leilah Babirye was the reminder of how much goes
into making a body of work. Beyond time, materials,
sacrifices, it also takes the messiness of living and
loving and healing."
ROGAN GREGORY
Artist
Based in New York, Rogan
Gregor y is a fashion
designer-turned-sculptor who
draws on the natural world
for inspiration. Gregor y,
whose show "Known
Unknown" at R & Company
opened this month, created
a set of bronze candlestick
holders for this issue's
Cultured Commission.
MATTHEW MORROCCO
Photographer
Matthew Morrocco is an ar tist who, in addition
to being featured in our piece on queer
photographers, also shot ar tist Leslie Hewitt
for this issue. "One of the joys of
photographing Leslie was getting to see her
pictures come to life in her space. She lives
inside her work as a seamlessly integrated
extension of herself that is beautiful to
witness firsthand."
COLE AKERS
Curator
Cole Akers interviewed artist Jennie
C. Jones in advance of her exhibition
at the iconic Philip Johnson Glass
House in New Canaan, CT, where he
is the curator. "In her installation,
Jennie poetically extends and
complicates familiar narratives of
modernism and abstraction that are
embedded at the site."
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JOE
KRAMM
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R
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COMPANY
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SELF
PORTRAIT
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LAKE
VEREA
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