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Kate Okeson: Regarding the Queer Bardo: We grow in one direction, proceed in formation

Kate Okeson: Regarding the Queer Bardo: We grow in one direction, proceed in formation

SKU: 2021-00059.

A pie chart naming opposition, survival, and resilience through the lens of Queer experience and language. Moving parts manipulated by the viewer to ‘dial in’ the varying experiences.

Language and rituals are in place that, metaphorically, parallel the continuum of Queer experience and give shape to our strength, persistence, resilience. A Queer Bardo – deaths, opportunities to transcend hardship, wrestle apparitions, only to emerge inhabiting fully our bodies, enlightened. Our words, our bodies, our path: we remake and re-present ourselves each moment, not in the eyes of others, but far from the remains and reflections or last impressions; we emerge dreaming ourselves into each day.

Category: WomynsWerq. Tags: 3D, Black & White, drawing.
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Giving primacy to Queer experience and language and repossessing desire is most useful to those of us on the periphery; where liminal and unnamed spaces are like an airport for identity – neither the departure location nor destination – non-places in which we translate ourselves for the need: nights and loud and intimate and work and obligation and the view of others, the desire and the need (and the need and the need).
I catch viewers unaware; changing the level at which they are addressed, caught thinking they are looking at something else. The viewer is moving, playing, reading.

Reading.
The viewer moves into the space on their terms, and leaves on mine. There is no passive presentation; the act of looking becomes reading becomes connecting their experience to mine; interior selves meeting in the locker room, where I refuse to look away from them as I change into my gym clothes.

Education
1997 BFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Areas of Concentration: Artist’s Books, Photography, and Installation
2007-2008 College of Education, Seton Hall University, Areas of Graduate Study: Educational Leadership, Management and Policy
Professional Experience
2002-present Fine Arts Educator, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, Rumson NJ
2007-present Teaching Artist, The Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury NJ
1999-2002 Studio Arts Educator, Hoboken Charter School, Hoboken NJ
1997-1999 Teacher of the Gifted and Talented (Visual Arts), Warren Hills Regional Schools, Washington NJ
Exhibitions
2020 Confluence, Oceanic Library, Rumson NJ
2018-ongoing Birds of the Navesink / Naturehood WatchWater stations throughout Red Bank Borough NJ

2017 Terroir, Trident Arts, Long Branch NJ
2016 Birds of Sandy Hook / Naturehood Watch
Zero-Waste Arts Fest/National Park Service Centennial at Gateway National Park, Sandy Hook NJ naturehoodwatch.org
2016
New Work with Amy Faris
Christina M. Geiss Gallery at Georgian Court University, Lakewood NJ
2014-ongoing
2013
Cultural Worker Local 732
AgitProp and ‘zine
Back to School
Gallery at the Oceanic Library, Rumson NJ
2012
Queer Gaze
Gallery 13, Asbury Park NJ
2012
Through You Into Action
2012
Multi-site show at Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster NJ and Gallery Aferro, Newark NJ
Carry It On, commissioned audience participation artist’s book and lobby display for Maureen McGovern one-woman show
Two River Theater, Red Bank, NJ
2011
The Healing Power of Art II
The Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ
2010
The Healing Power of Art
The Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ
2010 Scavenger Hunt II
Art House co-op, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Belles Lettres – solo show
Gallery Aferro, Newark NJ
2009 Theater Town
NJIT School of Architecture, Newark NJ
2009 The Art of Numbers
Good Question Gallery, Milford Pa
2008 The Westinghouse Project
NJIT School of Architecture, Newark NJ
2007 Annual Member’s Show
Guild of Creative Art
2007 Modified History of Downtown Newark
NJIT School of Architecture, Newark NJ
2006 All Keyport Show
Mitchell Sanborn Gallery, Keyport NJ
2006 Family Ties
Mitchell Sanborn Gallery, Keyport NJ
2006 Annual Juried Show
Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury NJ
2005 All Keyport Show
Mitchell Sanborn Gallery, Keyport NJ
2005 Photography Now
Mitchell Sanborn Gallery, Keyport NJ
2001 I’m a Fan (of the Bush Energy Policy)
Performance (Collaboration with Tiffany Ludwig)
Hoboken Path Station, Hoboken NJ
Residencies
2014 Brookdale Visiting Artist Program
Brookdale Community College, Lincroft NJ
2009 Artist in Residence, Gallery Aferro,
Newark NJ
Grants and Awards
2020 Educator for Equality Award, Given by Garden State Equality for work done on the NJ LGBTQ Inclusive Education implementation
2020 Equality Champion Award, NJEA
2019 Outstanding Educator in Visual Arts, Monmouth Arts Council
2018 Women Making a Difference Award, Junior League of Monmouth County NJ
2016 NEA funded “Imagine Your Parks” National Park Service Centennial/NEA project grant through the Monmouth Arts Council, Red Bank NJ
2009 Summer Incentive Grant
Rumson-Fair Haven Board of Education
2008 Educator of the Year
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School
Professional Service
2020 Chair, Human Relations Advisory Committee for Red Bank Borough NJ
2013-2020 Member, Human Relations Advisory Committee for Red Bank Borough NJ
2010-present Co-Founder and Program Director, Make it Better for Youth, the Monmouth County Consortium on LGBT Youth
2008-present President, School Educators Association, Rumson-Fair Haven RHS
2007-present Advisor for Gay-Straight Alliance
Rumson-Fair Haven RHS, Rumson NJ
2007 Teaching Artist Asbury Park Arts and Literacy Initiative
Asbury Park, NJ
2003-2005 Teaching Artist
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton NJ
2000-2002 Portfolio (Authentic Assessment) developer
Hoboken Charter School Hoboken NJ
1996-1999 Consultant to Horizons, a co-curricular Gifted Education program
Warren Hills Regional HS, Washington NJ

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Ink on paper, paper construction (moving wheels)

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