Art has its Billboard charts. They focus mostly on artists and exhibitions in urban centers. A Decade of Country Hits is devoted to uncharted hits thriving instead on rural aesthetics and rural knowledge. This richly illustrated volume documents ten years of collective works initiated by artist Richard Saxton in rural communities around the world, from the American Midwest and Southwest to parts of Europe, Australia, and South America. Impossible to attribute to any one artistic genre, the works archived here explore a growing community of artists and researchers drawn to the rural experience in all its complexity. It resembles a sketchbook: with drawings, photographs, and from the hip accounts in the field, as well as contributions from likeminded artists, musicians, poets, and writers. Designed by Peter de Kan, the book is published by Jap Sam Books and distributed in North America and Canada by RAM Publications & Distribution. A Decade of Country Hits includes an international roster of contributors. It contains interviews with Todd Bockley, co-director of the Center for Social Sculpture; Twink Metzler, founder of Living Room Studios; architectural historian Robert Nauman; and Wapke Feenstra, artist and co-founder of Myvillages. Featured throughout are new collaborations with Zach Boddicker, singer and songwriter for 4H Royalty; Kurt Wagner, singer and songwriter for Lambchop; and Matthew Fluharty, director of Art of the Rural. Providing context for the work are essays by artist Stuart Hyatt, founder of TEAM Records; as well as essays by critics and writers Josh Garrett-Davis, author of Ghost Dances: Proving Up on the Great Plains; Mimi Zeiger, author of New Museums: Contemporary Museum Architecture Around the World, Tiny Houses, and Micro Green; and Enrique Ramirez, whose writing has appeared in Perspecta, Thresholds, AA Files, and elsewhere. In addition are essays by award-winning artists Marjetica Potr , Chris Sauter, and Fernando García-Dory, founder of A Shepherds School; as well as essays by curators, Ian Hunter, director of the LITTORAL Arts Trust; Marco Marcon, co-founder of International Art Space, and Kirsten Stoltz, programming director of the M12 Collective. The M12 Collective s recent exhibitions and commissioned works have appeared at the Kalmar Konstmuseum; the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale; the Chicago Cultural Center, Franklin Street Works; the Wormfarm Institute; the 2011 Australian Biennial spaced: art out of place; and the 2010 Biennial of the Americas.

A Decade of Country Hits: Art on the Rural Frontier

Arts & Photography

Margo Handwerker

Richard Saxton

History & Criticism

Jap Sam Books

The second publication in the new pocket-sized Center Pivot Series from Richard Saxton s alternative Colorado-based art and environmental collective, M12, and co-published by M12 s Last Chance Press and Jap Sam Books, An Equine Anthology explores the cultural history of the American horse. Interdisciplinary in approach, the series explores and connects the changing realities of rural landscapes and communities around the world, presenting an array of curated notes, documents and research ephemera combined with images, poetry and more formal visual and written works. Stitching together nonlinear histories, testimonies and interpretations of equine culture from the American Southwest and beyond, this anthology includes horsemeat recipes, rodeo histories, photographs and paintings of the horse by contemporary western artists. Contributors include noted animal welfare advocate Temple Grandin, M12 founder Richard Saxton, Wapke Fenstra from Myvillages, novelist Josh Garrett-Davis, native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and New Mexico based photographer Clea G. Hall, among others. Contributions by: Clea G. Hall, Matthew Fluharty, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Temple Grandin, M12, the Brunetti Family, Matt Slaby, Nell Boeschenstein, Oli Robbins, Wapke Feenstra, Kultivator, Josh Garrett-Davis, Richard Saxton, Kirsten Stoltz, Stuart Hyatt

An Equine Anthology / Central Pivot Series Volume 2

Nell Boeschenstein

Josh Garrett-Davis

Kirsten Stoltz

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