Something interesting is happening in Lawrence, MA. The venue hosting the MOCS installation coordinates many art classes for children of all ages. When I was in town I met with several of the classes to talk about the work, but since I left there has been some concern amongst teachers and parents about the impact [...]
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Won’t somebody think of the children?!
Posted in inspirations, installations, obeasts, tagged art, art education, art installation, artist, boston, children understanding art, dehumanization, fat, fat stigma, fatness, herrick, installation art, lawrence, MA, massachusetts, meca, museum for obeast conservation studies, muumuu, obeast, obese, obesity, rachel herrick, raleigh, satire on March 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
obeasts @ ICA Portland
Posted in installations, sculpture, spring 11, video, tagged art, art installation, artist, fat, fat women, fatness, fiction, herrick, installation art, meca, moo moo, museum for obeast conservation studies, muumuu, obeast, obese, obesity, rachel herrick, raleigh, science museum, stigma on May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies is at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine. The exhibition will be up May 14 through June 12. *UPDATE: Wowza! Check out the great review of my work in the Portland Press Herald! (click here)* AND check out the brand new sparkly MOCS website: www.obeasts.org (site designed [...]
exciting website changes
Posted in spring 11, tagged art, art installation, artist, beware of dog, building paintings, edifice, edifice paintings, herrick, installation art, meca, museum for obeast conservation studies, obese, obesity, rachel herrick, rachel herrick website, raleigh on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In an attempt to align my web presence with my current artistic focus, I have redesigned the rachelherrick.com website to showcase my installation and performance-based work (like MOCS) and created a new simple website for my building paintings (like Beware of Dog). Visit the new sites: Rachel Herrick (www.rachelherrick.com) Edifice Art (www.edificeart.com)
museum for obeast conservation studies
Posted in installations, photos, sculpture, summer 10, tagged archaeology, art, artifacts, artist, chubby, fat, fatness, fiction, found object art, herrick, identity art, installation, installation art, maine, maine college of art, meca, museum, muu muu, muumuu, nourish, obeast, obeasts, obese, obesity, political art, portland, portland maine, rachel herrick, raleigh on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies was founded in 2010 as an organization for the historical and scientific study of the endangered North American Obeast. Given their reclusive natures and dwindling numbers, little is known about this genus of bipedal marsupials, which was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. This exhibition was hosted [...]
ideas, notions, and possibilities
Posted in spring 10, thoughts & feelings, tagged artist, grad school, herrick, ideas, meca, mfa, raleigh on February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Taking a moment to record ideas for future projects. Don’t steal them; they’re mine all mine. Besides, most aren’t worth stealing. 1. Language of Love music videos. The premise: Making music videos for pop songs in languages I don’t know. Using the tropes of pop music I’d guess at meanings and narratives and then make a [...]
