Interview with Kaitlin Pomerantz

Watch our video interview with one of the recipients of the P.S. We Love Our Members Grant, Kaitlin Pomerantz:

Kaitlin Pomerantz is a visual artist, writer and educator based in Philadelphia. Pomerantz's interdisciplinary work in sculpture, site-specific installation, photography, and painting explores the relationship between humans and nature, landscape and land use, and themes of history, vacancy, and loss. Pomerantz is co-facilitator of the botanical arts project, WE THE WEEDS, which responds to natural histories and the relationship between built landscape and "nature" through site-based projects. Pomerantz has recently participated in place-based residencies including Land Arts of the American West (Texas and South West USA), Cabin Time (Sierra Nevadas) and Lugo Land (Lugo, Italy). She has most recently shown work at Sierra Nevada College, Nevada; Texas Tech Museum, Lubbock, Texas; Fjord Gallery and Little Berlin, Philadelphia. Pomerantz was part of Philadelphia's public art festival, Monument Lab, for which she did a project about stoops.

When asked about her passions, Pomerantz says this: "I am passionate about reforming the public's relationship to shared space, landscape, "the commons". I am passionate about using art to help people have a sense of presence, a connection to time and place, and care and stewardship for nature and its existence within urban landscapes. I am passionate about historic preservation-- the care for the built world-- and equitable and ecologically sound land management giving fair and wide access to the natural world. I am passionate about the re-use of materials, about breaking unethical and unsustainable supply chains. I am passionate about teaching art and the way that it offers people crucial skills for critical thinking, seeing, and creating a new world. I am passionate about school reform and believe that access to education should be supported and encouraged for all people, regardless of economic background. I am passionate about diverse artist communities and school communities, and working with other artists and teachers to create betters conditions for learning and creating, where a multitude of identities and expressions are supported and empowered."

Kaitlin's Artist Website: http://www.kaitlinpomerantz.com/

Kaitlin's Instagram: @_kkp_