Daniel Cooney Fine Art & Curate
Invite You To A Special Afternoon Event
In Concert with Giard's Exhibiton
Afternoon Reading
May 23rd 3-5 PM
At Daniel Cooney Fine Art
Featuring
James Thomas Stevens
James Thomas Stevens – Aronhió:ta’s (Akwesasne Mohawk) was born in Niagara Falls, New York. He grew up between the Six Nations Reserve of his grandfather, Akwesasne Reservation of his grandmother, and Tuscarora Reservation where his grandparents settled. Stevens attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and Brown University’s graduate C.W. program. Stevens has authored eight books of poetry, including, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations, A Bridge Dead in the Water, The Mutual Life, Bulle/Chimere, DisOrient, and The Golden Book, (SplitLevel Texts). He is a 2000 Whiting Award recipient and Full Professor in IAIA’s undergraduate Creative Writing Program. He lives in Cañoncito, New Mexico.
Poet & Academic
Jordan Eddy
Jordan Eddy (he/him) is the Editorial Director of Southwest Contemporary, which publishes critical perspectives on contemporary arts and culture across the American Southwest. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he is also an independent writer and curator whose work explores how artists upend entrenched material and social hierarchies through cross-disciplinary creative practice. He was the director of the dual gallery Form & Concept and Zane Bennett Contemporary Art (2018-2024), and co-founded the project space No Land (2014-2020). He has written for The Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic, and has work forthcoming in Art in America.
Art Critic & Editorial Director
Austin Eichelberger
Over eighty pieces of Austin Eichelberger's fiction, poetry, and memoir have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including Cleaver, escarp, The Tishman Review, and Cease, Cows. Originally from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Valley, Austin moved to New Mexico in 2013 and completed his MFA in Fiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in 2018. He has served as Fiction Editor for the Santa Fe Literary Review since 2017, and works as a writing coach and pet sitter. He has exhibited and sold his collage, photography, and handmade chapbooks at art shows across Santa Fe, including at TYPEFACE, his solo show with Curate Santa Fe. He now teaches English and creative writing full-time at Santa Fe Community College, where he co-hosts the free online reading series The Writing Generation.
