Publications
2020-22 Grizzly Grizzly publications, programming, and residencies are supported by Added Velocity which is administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University and funded by the William Penn Foundation.
In Dialogue / Issue #3 / August - September, 2020
Grizzly Grizzly received a 2020 Added Velocity Grant for our project Speak, Speak, Walk, Walk,... Listen. Our intent was to use our grant to expand our audience, to begin a dialogue with Philadelphians whose voices we have not heard before and to deepen the dialogue with Philadelphians whose voices we have not heard enough. In all of our discussions on how to do this, we returned to a frequent topic in our group and a specter that looms large over every arts organization, the lack of diversity.
There is no precedent for 2020 and no reference point for this particular confluence of events. The injustices and inequalities that afflict some
of us have been magnified by toxic politics, a crumbling public health infrastructure, economic collapse, and racism that has been nurtured and protected by the institutions that make the United States what it is. As a collective, we have watched in horror as institutions from the police to the academy have further brutalized and marginalized the people who righteously expose the racism endemic to their structure.
It is difficult to know how to correct the systemic racism and identity group discrimination that has shaped every facet of the discipline we love, including how we are educated, what constitutes aesthetics, who gets to show work, and who gets invited to the show. We are accountable for a paradigm that tokenizes, delegitimizes, devalues and makes a monolith of artists in all of their brilliant complexity. We are responsible for challenging the system which limits our own understanding and appreciation of art in the diversity of its execution and inspiration. As both individuals and organizations, we must examine our own assertions of what is on the inside and what is on the outside of the institution of art itself.
This issue of In Dialogue is a response to some of the largest protests against racial injustice in our country’s history as well as to the broader injustices that have long been part of the class system in the United States. We have invited artists who address social justice in their work or who are responding to this moment in history. We will do what we set out to do when we applied for the Added Velocity Grant, which is to listen.
In Dialogue / Issue #2 / April - July, 2020
In Dialogue was originally intended to focus on our gallery and offsite projects, and was to be distributed in public sites around the city and at our monthly First Friday event. When it became clear that First Fridays would be on hold for the foreseeable future, we decided to bring part of that greater community into the virtual pages of our publication.
We are excited to present this issue of In Dialogue, which includes an essay by Mary Salvante on Imin Yeh’s February exhibition, contributions from Jordan Deal, Halle Ballard and Sidney Mullis, whose projects were postponed due to the shutdown, and updates from members of Space 1026, one of the groups Grizzly Grizzly is partnering with through our Added Velocity Grant. This issue also contains thoughts from artists from near and far who shed light on our current situation.
In Retrospect / 10 YEARS - 10 ESSAYS - 10 EXHIBITS
FEATURING: Leroy Johnson / Olivia Jia / Rachel Debuque / Justin Plakas / Roksana Filipowska / William Downs / Cassandra Stanton / Michelle Marcuse / Laurel McLaughlin / Shannon Collis / Deborah Barkun / Nomi Talisman / Dee Hibbert-Jones / John Muse/ Charles Goldman / Jackie Milad / Lance Winn / Lee Arnold / Ricky Yanas / Jack Henry / Rebecca Simon Miller / Matthew Colaizzo / Kaitlin Pomerantz / Mike Konrad / Josh Weiss + Jacob Lunderby / Jacque Liu / Ruth Scott Blackson / Bruce Wilhelm / Cindy Stockton Moore / Roberta Fallon