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Poppy Livingstone (any pronouns) is an artist and arts writer whose research explores safety, space, and selfhood through interdisciplinary projects. They are the founder and editor-in-chief of Mister Magazine¹ and an inaugural Boston Art Writing Fellow² at Boston Art Review. They are earning their BA in Sociocultural Anthropology³ at Boston University, where they are a member of the Kilachand Honors College. Contact them here . If you’d like to receive bi-weekly scans of their sketchbook to your inbox, subscribe to their newsletter here.

Interests include: migration, printed matter, primates, movies, community spaces, contemporary art, AIDS art, cave art, outsider art, comparative literature, graves, cultural ecology, lakes, bogs, beaches, books about catastrophe, books about lesbians, books about menopause, books about design, and Bananagrams.

¹ Mister Magazine is an independent publication that supports artists with expansive creative and critical practices. Founded in 2021, Mister has published the debut features of dozens of artists online and in print. It was a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker awards. Its third issue, which will focus on themes of heritage, cultural ecology, and art, is forthcoming.

²You can read more about this program here.

³Poppy’s research centers on diasporic Jews in Latin America. This spring, they will go to Buenos Aires to conduct fieldwork for their thesis. They recently won the Alice M. Brennan award for their work in the humanities.

Selected Experience

Emerson Collective
Events Intern
June 2024 – August 2024

Boston Art Review
Newsletter Editor
May 2023 – Present

Boston Art Writing Fellowship
Fellow
March 2023 – August 2023

Boston Center for the Arts
Associate House Manager
October 2022 – June 2024

The Boston Public Art Triennial
Curatorial Programs + Community Engagement Intern
July 2023 – October 2023

Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Fellow
April 2023 – August 2023

Scholastic Classroom Magazine
Intern
April 2021 – August 2021

Selected SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Proof Read: Panel Discussion
MassArt
November 2023

Artist Books and Multiples: Panel Discussion
Boston Center for the Arts
October 2023

Selected Projects

Mister Magazine
Founder
May 2022 – Present

Selected Writing

Exhibition of Envelopes Addressed by Notable Designers Fills the Drawers at Katherine Small Gallery
Boston Art Review
August 2024

Inner Worlds and Outer Space: The Making of Diaspora X
Mister Magazine
November 2023

Inside Lot Lab’s “Signaling”
The Boston Public Art Triennial
September 2023

Portraits and Perception: At Gallery VERY, Familiar Faces Line the Walls of “PERSONA”
Boston Art Review
August 2023

The Sublime Feminine: Caleb Yono’s “Flotsam” Actualizes Femme Futures at Shoe Bones Gallery
Boston Art Review
May 2023

TRANSCENDENT SELVES: Excavations of “Otherness” in Performative Self-Portraiture
Kaleidoscope Journal
May 2023

A Triptych of Three Fools
Peripheries Journal
October 2022