International Space Station

**ISS is a collaborative project organized with Pam Lins and Trisha Baga**

Over the Summer of 2018 one-hundred forty artists came to Greenwich House Ceramics to make hand made objects to sell for a variety of progressive causes. We installed a large C-shaped table (inspired by Lina Bo Bardi’s studio table) and the Moon Bar at PS1 for a sale from December 14-16, 2018. The project culminated with a musical about Joan Didion living on a space ship centered around an adult version of a children’s choir singing the Carpenters cover of “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”. The beneficiaries of funds raised are Wide Rainbow, Critical Resistance, Immigrant Defense Fund, Gays Against Guns, Earth Day Initiative, Greenwich House Pottery, and White Columns.

Complete list of contributors:
Annabeth Marks, David Roesing, Rachel Harrison, Evan Crane, Marc Handelman, Hillery Sklar, Heather-Anne Halpert, Josh Thorson, Stanley Whitney, Paloma Izquierdo, Sam Moyer, Jack Henry Whetstone, Jeff Whetstone, Owen Law, Nicole Eisenman, Brandon Ndife, Adam Welch, Halsey Rodman, Daniel Sullivan, Trisha Baga, James English Leary, Alex Schmidt, Jenni Knight, Jacob Jackmauh, Kristin Lucas, Eamon Monaghan, Rin Johnson, Phyllis Baldino, Pam Lins, Tobias Czudej, Jessica Dickinson, Louis Osmosis, Raina Hamner, Barb Smith, Aurora Andrews, Megan Lee, Heidi Hahn, Emmy Lawrence, Samuel Lang Budin, Robert Grand, Jackson Beyda, Audrey Snyder, Andrea Blum, Aaron Gemmil, Jared Buckheister, Kamrooz Aram, Omari Douglin, Shelly Silver, Taylor Davis, Alyse Ronayne, Amy Sillman, Lena Henke, Christine Wang, Ted Mineo, Sarah Peters, Cole Root, Andrew Ross, Dmitri Hertz, Adam Simon, Peter Wilson, Ryan Cullen, Eric Li, Kelly Tan, Pavel Pys, Lu Zhang, Tom Sachs, Phillip John Velasco Gabriel, Matthew Schrader, Allison Brainard, Michael Smith, Rachael Rakes, Nora Handelman, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Onur Gökmen, Matt Keegan, Lucky DeBellevue, Ricci Albenda, Anna Craycroft, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Joanne Greenbaum, Medrie MacPhee, Paul Krause, Tenaya Izu, Marina Adams, Brett Gui Xin, Josh Kline, Miranda Lichtenstein, Hayley Silverman, Kathryn Kerr, Clifford Borress, Maja Cule, Claire Calvert, Pamela Baga, Anjuli Wright,, Mary Manning, Lena Sutter, Patty Lins, Oto Gillen, Phoebe d’Heurle, Erica Wessmann, Sophie Grant, Paolo Mentasti, Ulrike Müller, Sandi Feldman, Jennifer Paige Cohen, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Saki Sato, Cameron Martin, Eden Reinfurt, Kenneth Tam, Keegan Monaghan, Susanna Callegari, Diana Lozano, David Reinfurt, Hannah Gadsby, Colleen Asper, Meredyth Sparks, Amy Yao, Body Confidence, Finley Welch, Anne Libby, Cassie Griffen, Elise Ferguson, Marley Freeman, Rebecca Watson Horn, Liv van Kuiken, Xthian Diaz, Lia Lowenthal, Jeff Preiss, Maryam Hoseini, Gabby Chu, Serenity Adams, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Harold Crooks, Oskar Russakis, Monique Mouton, Maya Strauss, Sophia Cleary, Amelie Welch, Rachel James, Maria Bamford

Excerpt from a brief history of Ceramics Club written by Pam Lins and Halsey Rodman in December 2021:
ISS emerged from a complex of desires, politics and alliances, forms, liquids, and substances. Under the lens of “the future” it addressed many problematic, questioning, and historical historical projects: from the Saturday Evening Girls to ancient female figurines and ceramic kitsch; from the strong presence of women in both the American art-pottery movement in factories in the 1870's to the studio-pottery movement of artists working alone which emerged after 1900; from feminist cooks and designers to furniture makers; from writers like Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler to artists such as Anna Maria Maiolino. AND, of course, Judy Chicago’s “Dinner Party”. ISS creatively considered an activist feminist history and its conflicting positions, its remodeled futures, its sadness and problems, and all the constructive discussions. At the same time, ISS was a direct attempt to meet the difficult times with joy, humor, and hope; while also raising money for a variety progressive causes and (as it turned out) working in solidarity with the installers’ union at PS1 in their quest for a fair contract.