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Beverly NaidusOver the past two decades Beverly Naidus' art has dealt with personal and social concerns. Her mediums have ranged from interactive, site-specific installations to digitally rendered artist's books. Themes in her work have included the powerlessness caused by nuclear nightmares, the desperation and alienation of unemployment, frustrations with and fears about the current environmental crisis, socially engaged spiritual practice, the healing of body hate, and questions about popular media and the influence it has on contemporary life. Beverly Naidus’ work has been exhibited internationally (in such places as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC, and the Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA). Her work has been written about in books by Suzi Gablik, Lucy R. Lippard, Paul Von Blum, and an upcoming book by Lisa Bloom. Her work has also been discussed in many journals and newspapers including the New York Times, the LA Times, the Utne Reader, Z Magazine, Art Forum, and Art in America. Beverly’s writing has been published in Radical Teacher Magazine, the New Art Examiner, and will be in an upcoming book about teaching art for social change, published by Peter Lang Publishers. She has two artists’ books in print, One Size Does Not Fit All (Aigis, 1993) and What Kinda Name is That? (Kinkos, 1996). Beverly received a MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (1978) and a BA, cum laude with Distinction in Studio Art, from Carleton College (1975). She has taught at several museums in New York City (including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and was the Dayton Hudson Distinguished Visiting Artist at Carleton College in Minnesota for two years. She was an associate professor of Art at California State University, Long Beach where she received tenure in 1992. She was a visiting artist at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont. For six years Beverly was a faculty member of Goddard College's low-residency, off-campus interdisciplinary arts MFA program. She received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant in Photography in 2001. She travels frequently to lecture on activist art and her own work. After two decades working in the New York and Los Angeles art worlds, Beverly spent eight years in the rural village of Shelburne Falls, MA, focusing more intensely on her art practice, writing and spiritual growth while co-parenting her son, Sam Oak Naidus Spivey, with her husband and frequent collaborator, Bob Spivey. She and her family have recently moved to Vashon Island, WA and she has begun work with the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program of the University of Washington, Tacoma to co-create an interdisciplinary arts program. The curriculum she is creating will focus on art for social change and healing. Interdisplinary Arts & Sciences Program |
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