Daniel Tucker

ESSSSSS #13 Potluck and Timber Tour Save the Date for Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series #13:On Sunday July 20th, 2025 4pm Tour and 5pm Dinner at Manayunk Timber/Umbria Arts 5100 Umbria Street Philadelphia, PA, 19128…

Join us next week for a timber tour and potluck as part of the Eco Socisl Series! ecosocialseries.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/e...

I finally got this new book in the mail which I’m proud to be a contributor to: Pedagogical Art in Activist and Curatorial Practices Edited By Izabel Galliera, Noni Brynjolson (Routledge, 2025)

Details at www.routledge.com/Pedagogical-...

A week ago today we gathered.

The Curating Engagement Retreat was presented by Public Trust with support from Wagner Foundation.

Look for the book we are making to be released in late ‘25 or early ‘26.

Last week @kadistkadist.bsky.social released the 2nd in the series One Question Exhibition that I’m organizing and this one features a new exhibit titled By Jemma Desai kadist.org/program/one-...

Spring Newsletter What a year it’s been! Chaos has been reigning in Washington distracting us while the world burns and floods. It is truly disorienting and those of us in the arts and academia are deciding be…

Sharing a new newsletter miscprojects.com/2025/05/19/s...

Save the Date for Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series #12:
How to Make Art on a Bioregional Scale with Cynthia Hooper, Sarah Kavage, and Rosten Woo

On Wednesday June 11th, 2025 from 6pm-730pm 
at Ulises 1525 N American St, Studio 104

RSVP www.eventbrite.com/e/essssss-12...

Many thanks to my collaborator on the residency application Walter Biggins from Penn press, to Deborah Thomas and Alissa Jordan at the Center for experimental ethnography and to the staff, funder and board of the Sachs Program for their support.

I can’t wait to share more about this project in the future, and I am hopeful that it will serve to lift up the voices of many incredible Philadelphia artists and cultural workers, and that it will help to fill in some gaps around local art history.

The project that I will be developing through a residency with University of Pennsylvania Press will assemble a number of group interview interviews with Philadelphia arts elders.

Builders, Shapers & Independents: A Residency With Daniel Tucker - The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation The University of Pennsylvania Press will host a residency by artist Daniel Tucker, to develop a series of roundtable interviews focused on artists and arts administrators in Philadelphia ages sixty a...

Last week grants were announced from the Sachs program or arts innovation and I’m very honored and lucky to be among the incredible list of recipients.

Details here sachsarts.org/grant-awards...

I’m so excited to share a new project I’ve been developing for KADIST called One Question Exhibition where a curator or artist writes a question that links out to materials online.

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YouTube video by Daniel Tucker Local Control: 2018 Documentary About Karl Hess

Feeling the wrath of anarcho-capitalists?

The total chaos of the last few months has led me to reflect a lot on Karl Hess, who is arguably one of the first people to identify as an anarcho-capitalist. Here is my video essay Local Control: Karl Hess in the World of Ideas.

youtu.be/w5_DN4IhjQk?...

The review was written for a special issue edited by Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie, which focuses on unrealized and temporary memorials (full contents out this month) and thus focuses on the ephemeral aspects of these two projects.

(fig. 2) Wendy Red Star, The Soil You See…, 2023. Glass and granite rock. Curated by Dr. Paul Farber and Dr. Salamishah Tillet for Beyond Granite: Pulling Together. Photo Credit: Steve Weinik (Courtesy of Monument Lab)

(fig. 1) Black Quantum Futurism, SLOWER-THAN-LIGHT SHRINE: IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, 2023. Multi-media outdoor sculpture. Curated by James McAnally for Counterpublic 2023. Photo by Christopher Bauer.

I’m happy to share this reflection I wrote a while back that is finally out in Public Art Dialogue! The review focuses on Counterpublic 2023 in St. Louis and Monument Lab’s 2023 “Pulling Together” exhibit on the national mall

Link is here! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IYSZS...

Six Perspectives on Fissures on the Right The Trump coalition is no monolith. Daniel Martinez HoSang, Lindsay Owens, David Austin Walsh, Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Todd Tucker, and Dessie Zagorcheva reflect on the possibility of exploiting…

My brother @toddntucker.bsky.social and some other brilliant folks on various points of leverage to use to divide the shakey Trump coalition lpeproject.org/blog/six-per...

Thank you!

Will see what their distro plan is, I think for time being I just get one author copy mailed to me

Thanks to editor Julia Marsh for working with me on this challenging text and to my wife Emily Bunker for her feedback and permission to share the story that impacted us both. (Photo credit James Izlar)

I’m humbled to release a new essay next week in GRATE, an arts-adjacent print quarterly, at Da Vinci Art Alliance Friday, February 28, 2025 from 6-8pm. My text “Dislocated Art Worker” is a personal reflection on navigating the closure of University of the Arts last summer.

Thanks @tuomo-a.bsky.social

It is always rewarding to have your work written about, but in this instance it is even more so because it is a favorite project that connected me to so many people: Notes for a People’s Atlas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and read more here: peoplesatlas.com

A week and a half left to see the exhibit We Are Nature: Selected Earthlings from the University of Pennsylvania Art Collection at Penn Live Arts with support from Sachs Program and Penn Art Collection - stop by during the open hours M-F 11am-4pm or catch it during performances before Feb 28

Looking forward to being on this panel at the College Art Association where I’ll reflect on a decade of teaching at SAIC, UChicago, Moore College and UArts

My big brother explaining the thing everyone is trying to make sense of…

Otherwise I’m less familiar with these but am curious: Bringing Theory to Practice’s Paradigm Project, Alliance for Higher Education in Prison and Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities

Good question: I’d say Rethinking Schools or Imagining America and if College Unbound - but I’d be glad to hear of more.

Bay’s first art show was Mami Kato at Swarthmore List gallery and first museum Carl Cheng at ICA