Fauna

w/ Stuart O. Anderson + various illustrators interactive custom-built penny-smashing machine + collaboratively-curated exhibition cases from museum collections   Debuted at Carnegie Natural History Museum in the Hall of North American Wildlife: February 2022 - June 2022 Exhibition inquires can download a prospectus here.   Fauna is an all-ages interactive mechanical

Shapeshifter

coyote pelt, steel leghold trap, taxidermy mannequin by John Schmidt 2016   Imaginary, human versions of wildlife stand both in parallel and in contrast with actual animals through our cultural vehicles of media, myth, and anthropomorphism. The contemporary American cohabitation with Coyote is a polyglot of Indigenous stories,

Attentat: Homestead, 1892

gilt oak & balsa wood on flocked display panel (gilding by Thad Kellstadt) 2012   Russian-born Alexander Berkman was a passionate writer, activist, and outspoken anarchist. In July, 1892, at age 22, Berkman attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick by shooting him with a pistol at close range, then

Haymarket

cast lead + misc. parts, velvet pillow by Rebecca Susman 2012   During a peaceful street meeting of labor organizers and workers in Haymarket Square in Chicago, May 4, 1886, police arrived as usual to disperse the crowd with batons. An unknown person lobbed a homemade bomb into the

Welcome Home, Pioneer

(w/ Stuart O. Anderson) surplus motors, recycled bicycle drive trains, scrap aluminum, borrowed electronics, tumbleweed 2007     Tumbleweeds, as we know them, were first reported in 1877 in South Dakota - the seeds having been accidentally introduced alongside flax seeds by Ukrainian immigrant farmers. Within twenty years the plant