Essay: I Got Kicked Out of Art School, Then Snuck Back In By All The Students and Faculty Collectively
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Academic Impact, or Impact Academics
My 2025 diploma hangs on nipple clamps connected by a tiny silver chain in their closet. It‘s
my most clostly accessory, right next to a heavy industrial Margeilla necklace shaped like a giant septum ring.
We wear designer to rob the whole foods.
I was barred from studios and classes during the final semester of their MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, after giving an
anti–war performance lecture on election day,
“Bombshell Bambi Addressing the Arms Dealer Upstairs: An Election Day Dissertation Defense to the Painting and Drawing Department, Sponsored by General Dynamics, A Part of the MK-80 Series.”
The lecture was well recieved by faculty and students from performance, sculpture, painting, and sound.
The lecture was not well recieved by the Board of Trustees.
We wear designer to rob the whole foods. We go to school to enter the Undercommons.
I was the only visual artist in a cohort of 40 scholars to receive the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Fellowship in 2021 for my project, “Bombshell Bambi” Of course, I didn’t call it that on the application.
If you’re reading this, I’m writing now.
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