Frances Cathryn
Frances Cathryn recontextualizes stories as they've been told to us, focusing on the intersection of collective memory and public art.
Her writing on topics ranging from marginalized cultural landscapes to memorials to the coronavirus is published in Frieze magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ARTnews magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, and Social Text journal. She has presented her work at the Yale School of Art, MASS MoCA, NYU ITP, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, among others.
Frances also leverages digital scholarship and social protest to change public-history policy on a municipal level. In 2020, Frances started a campaign to remove three monuments in a park where she lives in Kingston, New York, pressuring policymakers to commit to the task. She is currently building an online curriculum that reconsiders how privileged source materials dictate who and what stories are credibly documented.