Julia Rooney and Anne Marie Rooney: In the weather of it

Anne Marie Rooney is a poet and artist living in Baltimore. She is the author of No Beautiful (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018) and Spitshine (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), as well as two chapbooks. Her poetry has been twice featured in the Best American Poetry anthology, and has been the recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, the Amy Award, the Freund Prize, and others. With the artist and game designer Sam Sheffield, she creates poetic games as LORRAINE. She hosts “Poem on the Radio,” a bi-weekly discussion of a single poem, on WGDR’s “Still Life with Club Soda.”

Julia Rooney is a visual artist based in New York City and New Haven. Sensitive to the increasing power that digital, virtual, and augmented realities command, she creates paintings and site-specific installations grounded in real space, analog material, and the human body. Her work has been in solo and group exhibitions at Below Grand, Hesse Flatow, Freight+Volume, Band of Vices, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Jennifer Terzian, Arts+Leisure, and Kopeikin. She has been awarded residencies and grants through The Joan Mitchell Center, Yale University Art Gallery, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, More Art, The Studios at MASS MoCA, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, amidst others. She holds an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art.

Ginevra de Blasio is a writer and curator from Rome, Italy, now based in New York City, USA. She graduated with a BA in Art History and Visual Culture from the University of Exeter, England, and from an MA in Visual Arts Administration at NYU, New York. Ginevra had curatorial and work experiences at The Drawing Center, Performa, Fondazione Corsini, 99 Canal, and Paula Cooper Gallery. Currently, she is involved in multiple projects and serves as a research assistant to Adam Weinberg, Director Emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art.