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Updated 4/22/2024

Aliens Read My Diary

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

I am a diarist. Say it like you say painter, author, sculptor, dancer, musician.



Diaries are an art form, often a mixed media form of writing, drawing, painting, and even sculpture. Like all the other arts forms, the subject matter derives from the internal and external interests of the artist. Unlike all the other arts forms, diaries have an element no other art form has - privacy.  Diaries are a form that thrive in the darkness, out of the public eye, hidden in drawers, closets, fire safes, and encrypted files.

 

Keeping a diary for over thirty-nine years has highlighted the membrane between the private and the public for me. Now the permeability of that membrane is increasing rapidly, with and without our consent.  Social media encourages us to share. Marketing research firms request we fill out surveys. We wear headphones to listen to music privately and have private phone conversations waiting in line at the checkout counter. Those phones have cameras, GPS, and internet access so we can show anyone in the world exactly where we are, what we are doing, who we are doing it with, and what we think about it.

 

The quest to know and understand ourselves hasn’t changed but the new technologies and materials available to us present opportunities to look deeper in, farther out, and record and analyze more data.  The relevant question has become what private things will we allow across that private/public membrane, and how, and in what form will we share it because anything shared with one person can be shared with everyone on Earth. Our lives are becoming open sourced.

 

All my art practice involves me creating a vessel for an aspect of my private thoughts and private life to travel in as it crosses through that membrane into the public realm.

Find Me

Sandra Haynes (She/We)
Job Title: Diarist & Book Binder
Phone: 413-834-4373
Address:
284 Silver Street
Greenfield, MA 01301

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

1994

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

1994

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Multi-Disciplinary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Writing Services
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Consulting - Curatorial Services
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Community Arts
  • Exhibitions
  • Art Sales
  • Art Conservation
  • Artist Market
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 4

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • General Public
  • Nonprofits
  • Artists
  • Businesses
  • People with Disabilities
  • Rural Populations
  • Elders

Languages Available:

  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility
  • Access accommodations for people who are blind, partially sighted, and have low vision

As the daughter of a legally blind (low vision) craftsman I am open to providing instruction, audio description or other accommodations for the sight impaired.

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I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • New England Bookbinders Association

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • New England Bookbinders Association

Awards

Awards:

  • Into The Black Speculative Fiction Contest Winner

Education

Education:

  • Master Hand-weaver from the Hill Institute, Florence MA

Special Designations

Designated Arts Community:

  • Massachusetts Cultural District Member - Franklin Cultural District
  • Massachusetts Cultural District Member - Turners Falls Cultural District

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • School / University
  • Corporate Business
  • Private Studio

Ages Served:

  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Visual/Crafts
  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - Mathematics
  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Literature
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Design

Certifications and Training:

  • Master Hand Weaver

Fee range:

$50-$500

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • School / University
  • Corporate Business
  • Private Studio

Ages Served:

  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Visual/Crafts
  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - Mathematics
  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Literature
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Design

Certifications and Training:

  • Master Hand Weaver

Fee range:

$50-$500