Listen ""I Never Start with Nothing": Mary Lum on Collage and Constructed Geographies"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode, Caitlin Woolsey (Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark) speaks with Mary Lum, a visual artist based in North Adams, Massachusetts, about how her intricate collages, paintings, and photographs explore the margins of city life, constructed geographies, and her use of text as image. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship for Advanced Study, and several MacDowell Fellowships, Lum taught at Bennington College from 2005 to 2022. Her work has been exhibited in and commissioned by MASS MoCA, The Drawing Center, and Oxford University, among numerous other venues.
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