Notes from the Field
Observations and Materials from coLAB Arts’ Resident Artists
Jody Wood - Artist-In-Residence with Elijah’s Promise
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coLAB Arts resident artist Jody Wood will be working with Elijah’s Promise. Wood will be developing a “Health Hub” with guests of Elijah’s Promise’s community kitchen, documenting the stories, rituals, and personal health practices of those who are largely unhoused or housing precarious New Brunswick community members.
Jody Wood is an artist working in mediums of social practice, video, photography, and performance. Her recent work re-imagines routines in poverty support agencies, aiming to shift power dynamics and resist stigmas surrounding poverty. Her community-based work has been supported by prestigious institutions including A Blade of Grass, Esopus Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, an ArtPlace America Initiative at McColl Center for Art + Innovation, and through residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, and Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Manchester School of Art, UK; Parrish Museum of Art in Water Mill, NY; and FIVAC in Camaguey, Cuba and has been featured in publications such as The Atlantic, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and MSNBC.
What helps you heal in times of distress?
Describe the qualities of a positive relationships.
It is through our relationships with others that we transform ourselves. We can know ourselves and have a strong sense of identity and personal history that remains solid even through confinement and social isolation.
Art supports a menu of models that can produce alternative scripts for social, political, and environmental transformation.
- Murray Edelman
What helps you heal in times of distress?
Describe the qualities of a positive relationships.