Michele Carlson

Michele Carlson is an artist, critic, writer, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.
Career
Carlson is the executive director of Art Practical, an online art publication. She also teaches at the California College of the Arts. Her research and writing investigates decolonial and socio-historical narratives and how power operates within cultural exchanges. She focuses heavily on racial grief, violence, and representation in art and media. She is also a co-founder of the artist collective Related Tactics, with artists Weston Teruya and Nathan Watson.
As of 2019, she is working on a manuscript titled The Visits, which is an experimental memoir about visiting her brother in six different Washington State prisons over the course of approximately eight years. The book is a memoir that involves critical analysis of landscape and visual culture. This book was funded by a San Leandro Arts Commission. Carlson has read excerpts from her manuscript at the University of California, Berkeley; Sonoma State University; Kearny Street Workshop, and Pitzer College, among others.<ref name=":0" />
Writing
Her writing has appeared in Art in America, KQED, , and .

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