Kim Beck

Maybe, just maybe, the mainstream media can focus a little less on colleges for a moment. Maybe they can take their cameras to Gaza and show us the emaciated children who are dying of malnutrition due to Netanyahu’s policies. Maybe they can show us the suffering going on there.

TONITE!! Pull Proof Pittsburgh #pullproof #woodcut #myth

Meet our 2024 #UnstoppableVoters Faculty Fellows! Kim Beck (@idealcities) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work explores the everydayness of disaster. She currently teaches at @cmuschoolofart. Learn more about all our fellows here: c4aa.org/unstoppable-vo…

The mysterious separation and beautiful movements of trees

@ValaAfshar @ClaraJeffery It's called crown shyness. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shy…

Please join me for the next reading group @silvereyecenter & @ubartgalleries on 3/23 @ 5:30 PM >>Paul Chaat Smith & bell hooks Register & readings: airtable.com/shr8OQOgOZtNr5…

In 1923, Adolf Hitler led a failed coup. He was treated leniently. Germany moved on. A decade later, he was dictator, and the worst disaster in the history of the civilized world ensued. In 2021, when the president of the United States leads a failed coup, we must not move on.

🐕 #TumblrUpdate [📷: Kim Beck. One Way Trail. 2015.] #KimBeck @idealcities #lucasartres #TumblrTuesday lucasartres.tumblr.com

@SlateGabfest I'm teaching college students on Zoom this semester. Copying you, we do "coffee chatter" every week, and it has turned out to be super popular & successful in building a community in this weird environment. Thanks!

Hope Melania doesn’t accidentally plagiarize Michelle again.

@daniellevalore thank you for your honest essay on @ThisAmerLife... Me too on solo quarantining, missing a mom who died a few years ago... you got it and so much more — beautifully. Much love and thanks.

Marching on Penn Ave. still, approaching Dallas Ave. #PittsburghProtests #JuneteenthDay

Yesterday my mural got an update! “Black lives matter” is a beautiful declarative poem now writ super large over the contours of weeds. My piece intended to make visible what is usually overlooked. What we need to… instagram.com/p/CBI_Zv_F9o6/…

@artassignment @SlateGabfest summer things to do with kids!

You Are an Artist is out in the world! A troubled world, yes. But it's my hope the book might help or at least distract you during this time. 53 assignments for artists and non-artists, using materials you already have: theartassignment.com/book #youareanartist

So happy to be a part of this awesome project!

Bits of roads with stripes. #theroad #theroadmoretraveled #theroadmoreorlesstraveled #yellow #paperweaving #photographs #roadrepair instagram.com/p/B6tVpxilDaW/…

Announcing: PAVEMENTS, POTHOLES & REPAIRS! This hybrid sculptural object and photography book documents my walks in Pittsburgh. These 498 photographs add up to a chunk of a thing you could use to fill your own… instagram.com/p/B6PUK8jlCKR/…

My thumbs were too sore from pushpins after hanging this up to post a pic! “Surface Tests” from rubbings made prints. #risograph miltonartbank @artassignment #tbt instagram.com/p/B0oOZjCFqgE/…

Show opening ⁦@CClarkGallery⁩ today from 2-4pm! Come see some cast glass and bronze potholes! instagram.com/p/BzQ44LCFD1t/…

This past month I’ve been working with the Pittsburgh Glass Center to cast glass potholes! I’ve learned: 1) glass is sharp, & 2) potholes grow fast! ✨ pghglasscenter #ideafurnace #glass… instagram.com/p/Brdn9EAFWM7/…