FUTURE 400, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate General of New York, endeavors to honor 400 years of Dutch-New York history with honesty and integrity, creating space for others who share this common heritage to voice their feelings and experiences at this monumental moment. Partners from cultural to commercial fields, from the New York area to the Netherlands will come together to create new work and new opportunities to continue writing the next chapter of our shared story, a collective…
FUTURE 400.
March 2024 Newsletter: "When Our Rivers Meet" at New-York Historical🌊3/30 Public Programs
New Work by Artist Beatrice Glow Reckons with the 400th Anniversary of New Amsterdam →
Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet on view at the New-York Historical Society
March 29 – August 18, 2024
New York, NY (February 6, 2024)—This March, the New-York Historical Society presents new work by artist-in-residence Beatrice Glow, which draws on her research into the Museum and Library’s vast collections. Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet reckons with the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in present-day Lower Manhattan, from both local and global perspectives. Working in conversation with a group of nine culture bearers, artists, and scholars whose heritages were impacted by the Dutch colonial enterprise, Glow has created a series of seven parade float maquettes, among additional works, that envision an alternative commemoration of the anniversary.
Solo show at New-York Historical ⚡ Creative Capital & NEA Awards →
National Endowment for the Arts | Grants for Arts Projects →
Pleased to share that The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has generously supported my exhibition that culminates my art residency with New-York Historical!
Announcing the 2024 Creative Capital Awardees In Visual Arts & Film
Bridging into 2024 →
Friends near and far,
I hope this message finds you in peace and good health!
It’s been an active year that kicked off with performances, building conversations across cultural and civic circuits locally and globally (Perth, Austronesian Taiwan, Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York/Mannahatta), and finding ways to transmit my learnings through teaching at the School of Visual Arts’ MFA Art Practice program.
One word that defined 2023 for me is ‘bridging’ — as a way of fostering community, navigating cultural chasms, and cultivating solidarity for collective survival. Since March, following my study of the collections at the New-York Historical Society, I have deeply listened to, and collaborated alongside, nine culture bearers, artists, and scholars, as well as the museum’s dedicated team. Together, we have created over 37 new works, including sculptures, textiles, and video pieces that will debut in Spring 2024 as part of my second institutional solo exhibition (invitation forthcoming!).
Cover image on "Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)" by Maria Montt Strabucchi with Liverpool University Press
Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)
Fifteen years ago, curiosity led me to living in Peru for two-years researching East Asian migration to Latin America. This resulted in artist books, performance lectures, videos, installations, etc. In 2016, I installed some of the objects as part of the "Magical (un) Real: Entranced Land" group exhibition at Momenta Art, Brooklyn. This December, an installation shot from that show landed on the cover of Maria Montt Strabucchi’s new book with Liverpool University Press. I'm happy to see this earlier research creation aging well.
Here is a downloadable open access ebook ⇢
Colonial Desires on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art Eltonhead Manor Period Room →
Neus Wijzer: Fragrance Atlas of the Low Countries
Thrilled to be one of 23 contributing authors to this new book that translates into “Nose Wise, Fragrance Atlas of the Low Countries” that just launched in Amsterdam in October. Many thanks to Caro Verbeek who invited me to share thoughts on the role of olfactory arts in my heritage and creative practice. She also asked me to share notes about the social history of spices such as nutmeg that are found in the Dutch speculaas cookies. I then got permission from my Lunaapeew friend Brent Stonefish to discuss the "Indian Cookie" that uses spices from the Banda Islands.
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale | October 21 panel discussion
RBF Culpeper Arts & Culture Award, The Batavia Shipwreck, Seoul Mediacity Biennial Talk and more! →
Spring 2023 Newsletter: New-York Historical Society Artist Residency + Museum Acquisition and more! →
BIG NEWS: I am an artist-in-residence at New-York Historical Society! I’ve been researching the collections with Curator of Material Culture Rebecca Klassen and our project, On Our Terms (working title), will culminate in an exhibition in Spring 2024. Stay tuned for details!
Baltimore Museum of Art recently acquired my textile work Colonial Desires (2022) that was on view in Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears. This marks my first acquisition by a major public institution and the piece will be back on view in summer 2023. Check out the other exciting 150+ acquisitions here!
A wall-scale version of my Pattern Index of Flowers and Forts is now on view at Rhode Island College’s Bannister Gallery as part of the group show Mediums and Messengers curated by Danni Shen.
In January, I performed over 12 editions of The Auctioneer, The Specialist & The Artist. I led small groups of visitors through fictional historic period rooms I installed at Saint Joseph’s Art Foundation as part of auction house Nicot & Tang’s preview of a 2068 evening sale of The Collection of the EoS 10^15. Presenting this speculatively dystopic future has been my most ambitious performance to date blending immersive theater, installation, sculpture, olfactory experiences, and as one visitor called it, “nutty sci-fi.” I hope to one day do this on a larger scale. For now, The Auctioneer’s white gloves are tucked away in storage.
Baltimore Museum of Art Acquires Beatrice Glow's "Colonial Desires" →
BMA Announces Acquisition of More Than 150 Artworks For Its Encyclopedic Collection
New works represent ongoing effort to diversify the range of voices, narratives, and artforms represented in the museum’s holdings BALTIMORE, MD
(January 17, 2023)—The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced today that it has acquired, through purchase and gift, 162 works of art, capturing a wide range of artistic perspectives and innovations. The latest group of acquisitions highlights the museum’s expanded efforts to close critical gaps across the full range of its collection departments. This work emphasizes both historic and contemporary omissions and focuses on revealing the fuller spectrum of voices and practices that have shaped the development of art across time, culture, and geography. The new acquisitions also continue the BMA’s work to support Baltimorebased and -affiliated artists at pivotal moments in their careers. Among some of the highlights are historic and contemporary paintings and works on paper by Sarah Biffin, Lucy Bull, Nancy Ellen Craig, Cianne Fragione, Beatrice Glow, Rachel Jones, Bertina Lopes, Nengi Omuku, Anil Revri, Deborah Roberts, Esphyr Slobodkina, Lilly Steiner, Joan Witek, and Bai Yiluo; video work by Alan Michelson; sculpture and objects by Brent Crothers, Theaster Gates, Duane Linklater, and Eva Zeisel; photographs by Daido Moriyama, Dodo Jing Ming, Kimbei Kusakabe, Shikeith, Wei Rong, and Wang Wusheng; and works by Baltimore artists Nefertiti Goodman, Erin Fostel, and Jackie Milad.
2022 Year in Review Newsletter →
The Collection of the EoS 10^15 on view at Saint Joseph's Arts Foundation, San Francisco →
Guided tours of The Collection of the EoS 10^15 by The Auctioneer, The Specialist and The Artist
Dates: January 5, 9, 19, 21, 26 and 30, 2023
Venue: Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation (1401 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103)
RSVP here
Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, a non-profit that celebrates the arts in all its forms, presents Beatrice Glow: The Collection of the EoS10^15. Multimedia artist Beatrice Glow kicks off Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation inaugural “Apothecary of Ideas” with a site-responsive installation, reimagining the Apothecary and the Vestry spaces as historic period rooms based on a fictional family, Empire of Smoke quadrillionaires (EoS 10^15), rescuing their prized possessions from an uninhabitable Earth, circa 2068. Composed of hauntingly luxurious artifacts, including a range of hand-embroidered textiles, scent experiences, videos, as well as VR-sculpted and 3D-printed objects, the collection blurs the boundaries of fact and fiction and explores the language of luxury and power.
The installation is on view through January 30, 2023 and will be part of the FOG Design + Art Fair (January 19-22, 2023). A portion of the proceeds will go towards paying Shuumi Land Tax.
A series of guided tours and performances of The Auctioneer, The Specialist and The Artist will take place throughout January 2023. If interested, please schedule an appointment here.
October Newsletter
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I hope you are healthy and thriving!
Lately, I have been reconnecting with the Bay Area / Ohlone Land, where I was born and raised. I am thrilled to share that I am currently the Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation where I am developing a site-responsive installation with selected objects from The Collection of the EoS10^15 series.
This fall, I am also realizing collections-based research in New York, Washington D.C and The Hague while enjoying teaching at the School of Visual Arts. I led a walk-through of Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears at Baltimore Museum of Art with a group visit hosted by the Center for Visual Arts, John Hopkins University one last time before the exhibition drew to a close earlier this month. It’s been gratifying to read messages from visitors and thoughtful reviews (see below) that altogether expand my understanding of the powerful impact of multi-sensory public history storytelling.
Here are some of memorable quotes from visitors:
“History should always be taught this way!”
“The goal of art is often transportation and you did that for me.”
“My biology students would benefit from learning about the social history of plants.”
Hope you will join me for a guided tour of The Collection of the EoS10^15 at Saint Joseph’s Art Foundation in the coming months (more info below). Thank you for supporting my practice!
Warmly,
Beatrice
Video of the Week Virtual Reality Art →
Virtual Reality Sculpting with Beatrice Glow
Artist Beatrice Glow created the first virtual reality sculpted and 3D-printed objects exhibited at the BMA for the exhibition Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears.
A Landscape’s Embedded History →
Brooklyn-based artist Beatrice Glow’s solo exhibition, Once the Smoke Clears, at the Baltimore Museum of Art is a riveting, multi-sensory collection of works exploring the social history of tobacco. An overall somber and contemplative atmosphere hangs over the exhibition with its dark gray walls, and a faintly smokey smell that can be sensed as one passes through the space. Glow is a multidisciplinary artist whose work ranges from watercolor, to VR-sculpted and 3D-printed objects, to printed and embroidered fabrics, and she grounds the research for this exhibition on Maryland’s history within the network of the global tobacco trade. She employs the language of decadence to uncover the true cost of luxury items and the ramifications of the forgotten history of the tobacco plant. Alluring in their intricate details, vivid colors, and natural imagery, the work in this exhibition is deceptive on closer inspection, as human suffering becomes visible.