Jacks McNamara

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Overview

Jacks McNamara is a genderqueer, neurodivergent writer, artist, activist, podcaster, educator, performer, and healer based on the Tewa land called O’ga P’ogeh and also known today as Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jacks is the co-founder of The Icarus Project, a participatory adventure in radical mental health and mutual aid now known as The Fireweed Collective. In 2012 Jacks was selected as a Lambda literary fellow, and their first book of poetry, Inbetweenland, was released by Deviant Type Press in 2013. Jacks hosts the podcast So Many Wings, which is a series of conversations at the intersection of transformative mental health and social justice.

Exhibitions

Jacks McNamara: Ancestral Imagination
17 Sep - 3 Dec 2022
Santa Fe-based artist Jacks McNamara develops their ancestral imagination in this immersive solo display. Mythical plants and transcendent abstractions swirl together, offering emotive portals into the past and future.
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Ancestral Imagination: Show Statements
Jacks McNamara & Jordan Eddy November 5, 2022
Santa Fe-based artist Jacks McNamara develops their ancestral imagination in this immersive solo display . The exhibition uses painting and installation to explore the seasonal relationships and pre-Christian spiritual practices common to European ancestors whose descendants have migrated into the Indigenous territories and high desert landscapes of New Mexico. Read statements from the artist and our gallery director below, and explore the new Ancestral Imagination exhibition guide . Director's Note Jacks McNamara's paintings resemble bisected seeds-if hypocotyls were deep purple and radicles bright blue-and their kinship with this natural structure...
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Jacks McNamara

Jacks McNamara: Ancestral Imagination

Poetry Reading: Ancestral Imagination

Artist Talk: Jacks McNamara

Reception: Wild Pigment Project, Tilke Elkins & Jacks McNamara

Ancestral Imagination: Show Statements

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