Bean Gilsdorf

MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEXTILE ARTIST & WRITER

Hear more from Bean on balancing a practice as both an arts writer and a visual artist, building and rebuilding community when moving from San Francisco to Poland to Portland, the existential nature of defining success in the arts, using a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation to study the working conditions of artists in Portland and beyond, and the importance of valuing not just the arts but artists themselves.

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Follow more of Bean's work at beangilsdorf.com, on Instagram @beangilsdorf, and in publications like Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, and SFMOMA's Open Space

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California College of the Arts

Headlands Center for the Arts

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Fulbright Fellowship

Americans for the Arts

Understanding the Value of Arts & Culture