Genevieve Jordan

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Under Pressure, Out of Time: Healing Basquiat

I studied Basquiat not to learn how to paint like him, but to understand what it cost him to create under the pressures he faced—racism, commodification, the art world's refusal to truly hear him. From a watercolor and a VANS box collage (a nod to street art and accessibility), I created two healing dolls as part of my ongoing practice of making replicas that witness and care for artists the system failed. "Under pressure, out of time" are his own words—capturing the impossible position he occupied as a young Black artist in a white-dominated art world. He died at 27. The healing dolls hold what the art world couldn't: his humanity, his tenderness, his right to be seen without being consumed. They ask: what if someone had tended to him the way I'm learning to tend to marginalized artists now?

Immersed and Rising: Frida Kahlo

A multimedia exploration of Frida Kahlo created during the first months of COVID lockdown. Confined to my home, I enrolled in The Art School with Leah Campbell Badertscher and gave myself a 30-day immersion in Frida's life. I studied her not to learn technique but to understand her survival—how she made art from a body broken by accident, a marriage that consumed her, an art world that didn't fully see her until after she died at 47. Through painting, photography, poetry, and original music by my son Riley Buffington, I created over 50 pieces exploring what it cost Frida to make art and what she gained by refusing to disappear. Her life taught me that confinement—whether physical, emotional, or systemic—demands creative response. This study became the foundation of my artivism practice: art not just as expression but as survival, as witness, as freedom for those the system tries to erase.

Schmuckerville

This is an art journey of a Boy. Once upon a time there was a boy named Maxin. Everyday he went to school and felt different and tortured. One day Maxin was pushed in line and just had enough Because of that he stood up Because of that he realized the pusher was also in pain Until finally, he summons the bravery to challenge the kids to be kind.