Carolyn Stuart: Making Contact
For this dance teacher and Contact Improvisation devotee, gender and movement are fluid: “We are in constant motion—that’s life. We’re constantly evolving. We are the transition.”
Hannah Krafcik explores the gender nonconforming and trans experience in a series of essays.
This series is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and Oregon Heritage.
Look for an exhibit based on Hannah’s series in 2024 at Friendly House, thanks to a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
For this dance teacher and Contact Improvisation devotee, gender and movement are fluid: “We are in constant motion—that’s life. We’re constantly evolving. We are the transition.”
Community organizer Nik Portela embraced The Dalles as their home, tipping the rural town’s local culture toward more LGBTQIA2S+ acceptance.
Hannah Krafcik speaks with three gender-nonconforming folks about how it is possible to feel thousands upon thousands of years old and very young all at once.
In the latest installment in the ‘Gender Deconstruction’ series, Hannah Krafcik talks with Oregon Coast resident Daphne Sprinkle about transfeminine identity and community embrace.
Portland Center Stage Actor Treasure Lunan and Associate Artistic Director Chip Miller discuss gender in theater.
In the latest installment of ArtsWatch’s Gender Deconstruction series, game designer and self-described “science communicator” Olive Marion Gabriel Joseph Wick Perry talks passion projects, day jobs, and making it all work.
A nonbinary child and their parent discuss identity formation, harmful stereotypes, and trans joy.
Landscape designer Crow Lauren and metalworker Carson Terry discuss their trades.
The first artist profiled in ArtsWatch’s new Gender Deconstruction series reminds us that things are never as they seem.
Hannah Krafcik kicks off a new series of essays for ArtsWatch about gender nonconforming and trans experience.
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