Teach it - Promote it - Create it - you are responsible for the continuation of the culture you love. Keep it alive through your actions.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

You're invited! On Tuesday, 30 September 30 2025, Sharon Louden will lead a panel conversation exploring the challenges and rewards of sustaining a creative life. The event will take place at 6PM in The Global Education Center at 4822 Charlotte Avenue #3, Nashville, Tn 37209. Sharon Louden

This just dropped, which mentions @sharonlouden.bsky.social's piece, "Windows of Freedom Tower" by name. We are so honored to be part of such an important project! --> www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Join Sharon Louden on her Fall book tour starting 26 September 2025. Find out more about the tour here👉ow.ly/PYVf50X0aLH @sharonlouden.bsky.social

After Harvard questioned her genealogy and refused to return exploitative photos of her enslaved great-great-great-grandfather Papa Renty, Tamara Lanier fought back and won. Watch her discuss the battle and her memoir with @hrag.bsky.social in the Book Talk we did with ICA LA.

I recommend listening to this conversation—it reinforces that the arts are at the heart of human expression. If more people recognized how essential the arts are to our well-being, we’d live fuller lives—and artists would be paid what they’re worth. . www.linkedin.com/video/event/...

Not arguing with people is self-care

Take a look at this flick through of Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life over 50 edited by @sharonlouden.bsky.social It features 31 artists over 50 who’ve sustained creative lives through decades of change. 👉https://www.intellectbooks.com/last-artist-standing

Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development. Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system. Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

Hey @svlocke.bsky.social just read your essay in @sharonlouden.bsky.social’s book Last Artist Standing. I so appreciated your clear honesty in telling your story. Thank you.

On this episode of In Conversation, James Campbell is joined by Sharon Louden to discuss her new book, Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life over 50 due to be released on 16 May 2025 Watch the episode here 👉youtu.be/Fm4fQCOOTjo @sharonlouden.bsky.social

Glad to have my copy of "Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life After 50", by @sharonlouden.bsky.social . My essay focuses on my relationship to debt. This book is a real resource with so much compiled wisdom.

Join me tomorrow night at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville as I introduce the 2024-25 CECA TN Artist Fellow, Stacy Kranitz, before her talk about her work and creative practice. 6:30p in the Rechter Room. free and open to the public.

Yay!

Watch Sharon Louden discuss the role of women in the arts in this short clip. Full In Conversation is coming soon, along with her latest book, Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life Over 50. www.intellectbooks.com/last-artist-... @sharonlouden.bsky.social

Although controversial times, I followed his career & loved his spunk & spirit. Got to spend an evening w/him back in 2018 in Laramie during the 25th anniversary gala of the UWY Art Museum and opening of a new installation by @sharonlouden.bsky.social --> what a life! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

My podcast with artist Nick Cave is up. We talk about his his childhood, his love of fashion, and what he does to stay optimistic during difficult times.

Send me your mailing address in the chat and I'll mail you this postcard. My wife's late uncle left tons of unused old stamps. This is not just about you getting it, but about all of the postal workers who'll see it. And if you live in a super fucking Republican area, I really want to send you one!

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available? It's literally called Library Extension.

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today? Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

Just got my official termination notice. I will be unemployed, thanks to DOGE, at the end of the week. Things are going to be tough. But! I've got books available (and more to come). Also, I'd like to help on any of YOUR creative projects. Need a writer? Editor? Sounding board? I'm your guy.

There’s nothing like seeing your new bk in the @uchicagopress.bsky.social catalogue! “Last Artist Standing: Living & Sustaining a Creative Life Over 50” is out in April & on a natl conversation tour discussing longevity, persistence, lack of retirement, healthcare & security for artists. Stay tuned.

Khari Turner: Lost at Sea Feb. 24-March 28, 2025 The New Gallery, APSU Exhibition essay by Lauren Jackson Harris @thenewgalleryapsu.bsky.social

Now more than ever Art should be political. Let’s make BlueSky a place where radical art, music, poetry flourishes, circulates, and is shared.

you won’t get better coverage of this than hyperallergic’s, they have the knowledge and the politics and the good photos

A new survey of Sylvia Sleigh at Ortuzar gallery lingers on her best known portraits of men from the 1960s and ’70s, presenting us with leisurely images of attractive people, often with voluminous hair on their heads and bodies.

seems reasonable

Absolutely overwhelmed to be in the presence of the first-ever printed book to use the Cherokee syllabary, the Cherokee Constitution of 1827. At the American Antiquarian Society.

Intellect is exhibiting at the CAA 113 Conference taking place 12-15 February in New York City. Please contact [email protected] if you'd like to discuss a proposal or meet up at the conference. For more information click here 👉www.intellectbooks.c... @sharonlouden.bsky.social

A nice little thank you note is in order

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Empathy

Trump hits the ground running trying to keep the costs of drugs high for consumers. Literally.

On Friday, February 21st, I’m giving one of the Templeton Colloquium 2025 talks at UC Davis (Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art) on Cultural Heritage at Stake: Between Conservation and Criminality. Please attend if you can.

AOC 🔥🔥🔥

Sometimes your part in the revolution can be refusing to be distracted by the bullshit.

My series "Forgetting is so long" explores memory, identity, and loss through painted over enlarged abandoned family photos. Who do we remember and why? These are political questions as much as social/personal. I'm interested in creating an expansive living archive through this. #art #painting 1/2

The RFK Jr. confirmation hearing has been scheduled for 1/29/25. The nomination is on shaky ground. Here's the call to action: Reach Out To Your Senators and Urge Them To Oppose RFK Jr's nomination to be HHS Secretary Here's how to do that, step-by-step:

The “Roman salute,” often cited by fascists, including Hitler, was not an ancient gesture but a modern invention, shaped by art and cinema.

I think it’s really important we identify the companies that are doing the right thing and reward them with our business.

🎉🎊🥳🌈 After 5+yrs in the making, my 3rd 📖📕“Last Artist Standing: Living & Sustaining a Creative Life over 50” is off to the printer! These essays are deeply meaningful: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 🙏🏼🙏🏼 @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social 🔜we will tour this book…stay tuned!🛫🚘🚌🌆

Great crowd at tonight’s talk at C24 gallery about Patricia Waller’s crocheted images of trauma and children in war.

If you’re around Chelsea tonight I’m on a panel at C24 gallery with @sharonlouden.bsky.social and artist Patricia Waller. We’ll be discussing representations of childhood trauma and war. Panel starts at 6:30p. Here’s the show: