Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, & Nate Watson) will be exhibiting a new project, In Our World We Are Whole, in A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, curated by Jabari Owens-Bailey. The piece extends work we’ve developed in previous projects like The Whiteness of Glass (2020) and No Matter the Intentions (2017). This installation features a pie chart of demographic data that describes a lack of representation of Black and Indigenous people and communities of color in institutional and glass studio leadership and tenured glass program faculty positions across the field. But we also know that those forces are not the sum total of our existence: we are more than whiteness’s lack. That sliver is only a piece of the

infinite creativity, community, and knowledge we contribute to the ecosystem we share. In the installation we re-situate that data visualization within a Black field that stands in for our expansiveness. Text on the wall summarizes the points in our printed take away that raise critical considerations in building a more equitable field for the future.

The exhibition opens next week and will be up for a year. Exhibiting artists include: Anthony Amoako-Attah, Radcliffe Bailey, Layo Bright, Chrystal Z. Campbell, Chris Day, Cheryl Derricotte, Alejandro Guzman, Mildred Howard, Jason McDonald, Perfumes de Vigny, Ebony G. Patterson, Pellat & Green, Related Tactics, Salviati and Company, Joyce J. Scott, Shikeith, Therman Statom, Renée Stout, Barbara Earl Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Leo Tecosky, Kara Walker, and Fred Wilson.