ANCIENT ATMOSPHERE
Artist Michael Jones McKean and collaborators discuss the challenges and poetics of reproducing a 300-million-year-old atmosphere.
MYCO-COSMOS
A guided exploration of biology, space travel and the interconnected universe led by famed mycologist Paul Stamets, with live accompaniment by new age musical legend Laraaji, conceived and directed by artist Phil Ross.
TWELVE EARTHS
Announcing the launch of Michael Jones McKean’s Twelve Earths, a sculpture scaled to Earth itself.
LEGAL RESEARCH
Research amps up with Jill Magid, as Fathomers hires legal intern Anne Marie Lee-Edwards, a second-year law student at the University of Kansas.
SCIENCE SPEED DATING
Seven top scientists give 7-minute talks on their latest developments and game-changing work. Co-presented by the Science and Entertainment Exchange (a National Academy of Arts and Sciences program) and the Museum of Imagined Futures.
BUY A BRICK!
We've launched our first-ever fundraising effort: the Fathomers Buy-a-Brick Campaign, featuring sculptural mycelium objects that MycoWorks' Phil Ross taught us how to grow.
MODERN PAINTERS
Executive director Stacy Switzer talks to Modern Painters' Scott Indrisek about L.A. sprawl, the transition from Grand Arts, and what Fathomers is up to in 2017.
SALON
“We need work that tears down walls and trespasses across boundaries — work that truly changes us.”
“POWERFUL TESTIMONY”
"Problems and Provocations provides powerful testimony that when an organization truly possesses the will and the resources to say yes to artists, amazing things can happen.”
“REVOLUTIONARY”
“Problems and Provocations offers a free-thinking model for artists and arts foundations — one far beyond support money and/or space."
ON MYCOTECTURE
Join Fathomers for a casual breakfast discussion with artist Phil Ross — and hear why fungus is the future.
LARB ON P&P
"How, then, does a group of people who facilitated the purchase of an amusement park ride, wrangled with the State Department and the Federal Reserve, and created their own dictionary launch a book and reinvigorate the tired panel discussion format?”
P&P LAUNCH HIGHLIGHTS
Thank you to all who attended our Problems and Provocations book launch in both NYC and Kansas City. Check out some of the highlights from the launch!
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EVENT REMINDER
Artnet and Art F City remind you not to miss our New York book launch party tonight!
FUN PROBLEMS W/SMART PEOPLE
Transcendental tour guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch leads a dynamic cruise through creative practice — as artists (including Mel Chin, pictured), writers, and thinkers from Grand Arts’ constellation take the stage to puzzle out problems of risk, magic, pleasure, ghosts, and what comes after art.
AAC CONFERENCE
If you're headed to the 2016 Alliance for Artist Communities Conference, in Portland, check out this Friday break-out session.
THE BOOK
Fathomers announces the publication of Problems and Provocations: Grand Arts 1995-2015, chronicling 30 of the most complicated and challenging projects Grand Arts ever produced.
VICE ON P&P
Vice’s culture platform Creators considers Grand Arts’ legacy, in advance of Problems and Provocations' September publication.