Jake Lahah
@jakelahah.bsky.social
Artist | Designer | Educator
Currently teaching, making, and learning in Richmond and beyond.
jakelahah.com
Currently teaching, making, and learning in Richmond and beyond.
jakelahah.com
I haven’t posted in a long time… but I started reading this. It lays out how artists are exploring the dark side of technology, through geospatial, critical theory, and poetics.
June 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I haven’t posted in a long time… but I started reading this. It lays out how artists are exploring the dark side of technology, through geospatial, critical theory, and poetics.
Reposted by Jake Lahah
*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER
docs.google.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Reposted by Jake Lahah
If you are a visual artist whose NEA grant was terminated today, I want to talk to you for ARTnews. You can contact me on Signal at karenkho.45. I can grant anonymity if necessary.
May 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If you are a visual artist whose NEA grant was terminated today, I want to talk to you for ARTnews. You can contact me on Signal at karenkho.45. I can grant anonymity if necessary.
She’s dense but I’m learning so much about data visualization.
April 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
She’s dense but I’m learning so much about data visualization.
Reposted by Jake Lahah
In 2003, a group of artists secretly moved into a 750-square-foot space in a large mall in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. They didn’t expect to stay more than a day, a week at most. But they stayed for four years.
A Group of Friends Walks Into a Mall, and Stays for Four Years
Was it a crime? A prank? A work of art? A new documentary unveils the full story of an artist collective’s secret mall apartment, and other ephemeral actions.
hyperallergic.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In 2003, a group of artists secretly moved into a 750-square-foot space in a large mall in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. They didn’t expect to stay more than a day, a week at most. But they stayed for four years.
It was incredible to be showing work alongside peers in the Tactical Communications portfolio, that will be exhibited this year at SGCI Puerto Rico.
March 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It was incredible to be showing work alongside peers in the Tactical Communications portfolio, that will be exhibited this year at SGCI Puerto Rico.
This research I’m doing with the Philadelphia AIDS Library Archives is really showing how much information is weaponized in climate and sustainability focused initiatives. The world is wild man!
March 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This research I’m doing with the Philadelphia AIDS Library Archives is really showing how much information is weaponized in climate and sustainability focused initiatives. The world is wild man!
The hardest part of archive researching, is the mental toll it takes to spend four hours reading articles and looking at images of people who have died from the aids crisis. I feel like I need a beer after each research session this week.
March 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The hardest part of archive researching, is the mental toll it takes to spend four hours reading articles and looking at images of people who have died from the aids crisis. I feel like I need a beer after each research session this week.
Research say with the Philly AIDS Library archive at temple university.
March 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Research say with the Philly AIDS Library archive at temple university.
Philadelphia is incredible.
March 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Philadelphia is incredible.
I leave for Philly tomorrow to do a big pate de verre casting at my alma mater tyler. I’ve been researching the crisis hickory nut gorge green salamanders are facing from silica mining in Appalachia. This image will be screen printed with glass powders and fused in the casting
March 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I leave for Philly tomorrow to do a big pate de verre casting at my alma mater tyler. I’ve been researching the crisis hickory nut gorge green salamanders are facing from silica mining in Appalachia. This image will be screen printed with glass powders and fused in the casting
How are artists centering pleasure in their practice? What are the ways that love and joy in the studio become pivotal to the work you make?
March 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
How are artists centering pleasure in their practice? What are the ways that love and joy in the studio become pivotal to the work you make?
I swear, I will never understand how to work with the algorithm on photo socials like Instagram
March 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I swear, I will never understand how to work with the algorithm on photo socials like Instagram
I wish Cy Twombly was still alive 💕
March 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I wish Cy Twombly was still alive 💕
Something I always struggle with with my studio practice, is boredom. And in turn, I start 12 bodies of work at once
March 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Something I always struggle with with my studio practice, is boredom. And in turn, I start 12 bodies of work at once
I’m doing new work on the archives of Our Own Press, a community LGBTQ+ newspaper, by printing and drawing on trashed signage material. I can’t wait to share this work with the world and to continue dumpster diving for more materials.
February 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’m doing new work on the archives of Our Own Press, a community LGBTQ+ newspaper, by printing and drawing on trashed signage material. I can’t wait to share this work with the world and to continue dumpster diving for more materials.
Educators: what are some of the ways you are introducing discourse on scale and size to your students? I’m finding it challenging to get students to do things larger, so I’m curious what sorts of readings or exercises you do to have them conceptually consider size with their work?
February 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Educators: what are some of the ways you are introducing discourse on scale and size to your students? I’m finding it challenging to get students to do things larger, so I’m curious what sorts of readings or exercises you do to have them conceptually consider size with their work?
I read Gregg Bordowitz text in General Idea’s “Imagevirus” the iconic design that has been used in countless iterations. This text was fantastic, and brought a new lens for considering how poetry, and art history informed this work.
February 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I read Gregg Bordowitz text in General Idea’s “Imagevirus” the iconic design that has been used in countless iterations. This text was fantastic, and brought a new lens for considering how poetry, and art history informed this work.
Snow day in the print shop
February 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Snow day in the print shop
This was so good. I will never look at Olive Garden the same way again!
February 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This was so good. I will never look at Olive Garden the same way again!
How do you manage the unreasonable expectation of participating in 5+ group shows a year when you have an impending solo exhibition that requires tons of research and energy?
February 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
How do you manage the unreasonable expectation of participating in 5+ group shows a year when you have an impending solo exhibition that requires tons of research and energy?
Most weeks are great, but this is one of those teaching weeks where things are just not coming together in line - students aren’t reading project sheets or coming to class prepared. This is so hard in the foundation level courses because there is so much to cover!
February 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Most weeks are great, but this is one of those teaching weeks where things are just not coming together in line - students aren’t reading project sheets or coming to class prepared. This is so hard in the foundation level courses because there is so much to cover!
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I'm saying Go Birds because there's a chance their victory riot turns into a general strike
February 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I'm saying Go Birds because there's a chance their victory riot turns into a general strike
The inescapable pleasure of drawing (that isn’t about the Declaration of Independence)
February 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The inescapable pleasure of drawing (that isn’t about the Declaration of Independence)