Queering the Kudzu: Richard Jonathon Nelson on Plants, Roots, and Colonialism

Hop into our car to East Oakland where we’ll meet textile artist Richard Jonathan Nelson at his friend and fellow artist Jamee Crusan’s place. Richard talks about being a black, queer man in the US, how his mother and aunts encouraged him to make textile art as a child and how language plays an important role in his life. What’s a hand baby and who brought the Kudzu? Richard tells us all.

Richard’s website: http://www.richard-jonathan-nelson.com/
Richard on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rich_nels/
Visual tour and transcript of the interview: https://artcrushinternational.com/richard-jonathan-nelson.html

Check out Jamee Crusan, artist and good friend of Richard Jonathan Nelson. Her work Black and Blue/Lack and Lure is our Beautiful Online Thing of the week: https://jameecrusan.com/new-index#/black-and-bluelack-and-lure/

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