Weekend reading: October 22 edition

Around Columbus

• Need something feel-good? Watch our Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer Edwards win the 2021 Arts Educator Award from the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
• Or read about the new crop of artists in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, which includes Columbus artist and Cinetracts ’20 contributor Cameron Granger.
• Wex Artist Residency Award recipient and Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour shared an archive of this week’s Spoken and Heard event from Nelsonville’s Stuart’s Opera House.
• HighBall Halloween is back on Saturday night at Express Live.
• Also Saturday night, the first Columbus Mural ReMix will present artist-created projections over existing murals at 220 E. Main St.
• Columbus poet Maggie Smith shared her thoughts on teaching her children about handling fear with The Washington Post.
• Here’s a beautiful piece by Bela Koe-Krompecher about his late friend, Jenny Mae.
• WitchLab has a call for entries open through November 15 for work exploring the Slavic folklore legend Baba Yaga.
• Tuesday, Ohio Voice is hosting the online program Inhale/Exhale: Healing for Organizers.
• Marvel caught up with former Ohio State professor Frederick Luis Aldama to discuss Latinx heroes.
• Here’s a piece on the new home base for No Place Gallery.
• CATCO debuts Mr. Burns, a post-electric play on Thursday.
• Also Thursday, Ohio State Dance debuts ReVision, a program of new works by teaching choreographers including Guest Artist Gamal Brown.
• And next Friday brings the local premiere of They/Them/Us by Columbus filmmakers Jonathan Sherman and Melissa Vogley Woods at the Lincoln Theatre.

Around the globe

• The 2021 Gotham Award nominations are out, and contenders include Unorthodocs ’21 selection Faya Dayi by Jessica Beshir.
• Film crew union IATSE reached a tentative agreement to avoid a strike early this week.
• But that situation could be complicated by Thursday’s tragic, avoidable death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western Rust.
• Filmmaker Magazine announced its “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” including artists like Annalise Lockhart and Faye Ruiz.
• Audio engineer Vince Werner shared what it’s like for an audio professional to lose their hearing.
• AMC Theaters is trying out open-captioning for the hearing impaired at some locations.
• Choreographer Alice Sheppard won the 2021 Neilsen Visionary Prize, and she’ll be using its $1 million cash gift to create a fund to support disabled artists.
• Viennese museums have gotten around nudity censorship on the major social platforms by starting OnlyFans accounts to share images of nudes in art.
• Mickalene Thomas talked about her own distinctive approach to nudes. 
• Artists Emma McMillan and Alex Katz also got to talking.
• Artists are pulling out of the Havana Biennial to protest the incarceration of cultural workers.
• Here’s a sampling of the four dozen individuals who were named Global Fellows by the Ford Foundation this week.
• Here’s a piece on the cultural legacy of the Harlem Y.M.C.A.
• Lastly, a sad heads-up: we’ll be losing the literary mag The Believer in February.