Jen Everett

Jan 22

Jen Everett makes photographs, installations, and time-based media that engage relationships between rupture, Black interiority, and knowledge production. For Counterpublic 2023, Everett has developed a series of workshops born out of a desire for thinking and working together to preserve as well as activate the materials we collect, handle, care for, and eventually pass on to those we love and trust. These workshops focus on the grounding and fortifying power of vernacular archives explored in photographic, sonic, and ecological modalities. Collaborative facilitators will guide learners through strategies for record-keeping and preservation while highlighting differences between institutional and vernacular frameworks with a focus on the practices of informal archivists and keepers within our own families and communities, subverting the myth of the institutional archive as the source of true or official knowledge. This offering will center histories that have been suppressed, omitted, or are at risk of being lost.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jen Everett is an artist from Southfield, Michigan, currently based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her practice moves between lens and time based media, installation and writing. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at art spaces including Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Krannert Art Museum, SCAD Museum of Art, Kunsthall Stavanger, Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery and Flux Factory. Jen has been an artist in residence at the Fire Island Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts and ACRE. She was a 2021-22 Duke University DocX Archive Lab fellow. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College - Chicago.