“For me, being an artist is a way of thinking. And it’s a creative outlook that’s with me all the time. I don’t turn it on or off. It just is.” —Julie Ault
Continuing with the introductions to the recipients of the 2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship “Genius” grants, today we are sharing with you – and extending our congratulations to – Julie Ault. Ault is an artist and curator activating and preserving art’s capacity to effect social change. In artmaking that takes the form of exhibition making, art criticism and theory, and historical chronicles, Ault explores how art shapes and is shaped by the political, social, economic, and aesthetic circumstances of a given moment. In this video, the MacArthur Foundation introduces us.