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Felipe Ortiz with his final drawing of two piping plovers.

Action Pact 2022: Felipe Ortiz

Little faces watched eagerly all afternoon as Felipe Ortiz worked. Children’s voices called out questions (”What is that?”) and offered words of encouragement (“Good job!”). Some watched silently, trying to puzzle out the image Felipe was slowly teasing out from the sidewalk with chalk and charcoal. Others walked past only to double back for a closer look. As bird skeletons, often mistaken for dinosaur bones by the youngest observers, turned into the bodies of endangered Piping Plovers,…

Annie and Ed looking at stained glass.

Modern Love: Museum Heartbreak

Once upon a time, I fell in love with museums. I wanted to be with them all the time. I wanted to talk about them. I wanted to know everything there was to know about them. I wanted to explore their every corner. I longed for them to know and love me back. My crush began in the summer of 1996 when I interned at a small historical society in Stamford, Connecticut. Like many institutions of its kind, the place was a mess. It was chock-a-block with cast off…

With a Little Help from Our Friends: Jonathan Bardzik

Jonathan Bardzik is a self described storyteller, cook, and author. And an awfully old friend of Annie’s. She sat down with Jonathan to talk about where cooking and performance intersect, how people create narratives through food, and the release of his brand new TV series Jonathan’s Kitchen (releasing on Revry later this month). Here are some excerpts from their conversation. Annie: How do you describe the work that you do? When someone says to you, Jonathan, what do you do for a living? What do you say? Jonathan: I say that I’m a storyteller, cook and author…

Screen shot of storyboard consisting of notes, drawings, and image graphics.

The Joke

It was probably sometime toward the middle of 2015 that I began to think of the joke as a potential reality. In those action packed work days, we spent a lot of time sitting around the conference tables of the Peabody Essex Museum planning, talking, and dreaming about how to fill more than 20,000 square feet of museum gallery space in thoughtful, engaging, and creative ways. Our tight knit group of coworkers turned friends, which included Jim and Ed, had all been hired within about eighteen months of one another and, consequently, had become both personally and professionally close.

Creation. Magic. Transformation.

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We live and work on the ancestral lands of the Massachuset people and others. But so much of our activities occur in the digital realm, we invite you to consider the legacies of colonization embedded in the technologies, structures, and ways of thinking we use every day. The digital tools we rely on are not available in many Indigenous communities. The technologies we employ to make our work have significant carbon footprints, contributing to climate change that disproportionately affect Indigenous people all over the world. We acknowledge this, and ask that you join us in considering our shared responsibility to practice the ongoing work of reconciliation, decolonization, and allyship.