Susan Harbage Page

Barkcloth, Bras, and Bulletproof Cotton: The Powers of Costume

2012-01-21T17:56:00.002-05:00

Barkcloth, Bras, and Bulletproof Cotton: The Powers of Costume

January 19-May 12, 2012

Opening reception: Thursday, January 19, 6-8pm
Gregg Museum of Art and Design, NC State University

Carnation, Postcards From Home, Susan Harbage Page, Photograph

According to the Biblical story of Genesis, the moment that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and became self-aware, the very first thing they did was make themselves something to wear. Using amazing objects from the Gregg Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores not only how clothing serves to protect, shelter, shield, and modify the human body, but also how what we wear helps us lure, seduce, dominate, segregate or manipulate others, discover spirituality and personal self awareness, proclaim our individuality or group membership, or express ourselves. Photographs, artifacts, jewelry, and a dazzling array of outfits ranging from military uniforms, gangster wear and tribal shaman’s garb, to executive power suits and ultra-high-fashion evening gowns, offer a fascinating foray into how clothes can do so much more than merely “make the man.”

Notable Essay of 2010

2012-01-10T13:22:00.003-05:00

Crazy in Love named a Notable Essay of 2010 by the editor of Best American Essays.

The Massachusetts Review, Crazy in Love, article by Cynthia Lewis, photography by Susan Harbage Page, Volume, LI, #1, Amherst, Massachusetts, Spring 2010, ISSN 0025-4878

San Carlo Di Spoleto - Ex-Voto

2012-01-04T14:30:00.003-05:00

Woman Waiting No. 2 is now a part of the San Carlo Di Spoleto Ex-Voto Collection, Italy

The Border Project at Flanders Gallery

2011-12-15T21:57:00.004-05:00

Here are a few installation images of my exhibition at Flanders Gallery

The White Box Performance

2011-11-12T09:25:00.000-05:00

UNC Diversity Summit, 11/18/11

2011 Carolina Diversity Summit to Take Place November 18

“Intersectionality: Exploring Diversity from Varied Perspectives”

Who's Doing The Looking?

2011-10-31T21:01:00.003-04:00

Art Over Lunch

“Who’s Doing the Looking?”: Contemporary Photography by Weegee, Goldin, and Mann
A Talk by Susan Harbage Page

Wednesday, November 2nd, 12:00-1:00 PM
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bring a bag lunch and enjoy an hour of inspiration and information about art currently on display in the Ackland exhibition Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections.

Susan Harbage Page is a studio art instructor in photography and mixed media at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is affiliated faculty in the Department of Women’s Studies. She is a three-time winner of the North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship.

Free to members and UNC OneCard holders
$5 non-members

http://www.ackland.org

The Border Project: New Work by Susan Harbage Page, by Matt Zigler

2011-10-11T21:57:00.001-04:00

The Border Project: New Work by Susan Harbage Page

on nc artblog.

By Matt Zigler | Published: October 10, 2011

In the first part of T.H. White’s classic book, The Once and Future King, the young Arthur, known as the Wart, is turned into a goose by Merlyn as a part of his education. A young female is schooling him on what it means to be a goose:

‘Do you all come here from different places?’

‘Well in parties of course. There are some here from Siberia, some from Lapland and I can see one or two from Iceland.

‘But don’t they fight each other for the pasture?’

‘Dear me, you are a silly,’ she said. ‘There are no boundaries among geese.’

‘What are boundaries, please?’

‘Imaginary lines on the earth, I suppose. How can you have boundaries if you fly? Those ants of yours — and the humans too — would have to stop fighting in the end, if they took to the air.’

‘I like fighting,’ said the Wart. ‘It is knightly.’

‘Because you’re a baby.’

Sadly, the ability to take to the air has not removed our borders, and this subject of the border between Mexico and the United States is front page news with states enacting ever more strict measures for dealing with undocumented immigrants. Susan Harbage Page has been making trips to the US – Mexico border and documenting the evidence, or the remnants, of a game of cat and mouse that means lawfulness and legality to the people on one side, and life and livelihood to the people on the other. Her current show at Flanders Gallery incorporates objects that she has collected on her travels (amazingly, according to her card, people stopped at the border have to empty their pockets of anything non-essential), photographs of those objects, and photographs of the evidence of passage.
The show comes across as a socially minded archaeological exhibition. The statement about the injustice of a failed immigration policy is evident, but not over the top. The objects are simply tagged with a date and laid out for us to interpret (how did the red bra or the little picture of Jesus end up left in the dirt?). The border seems to create a remarkable amount of trash and the artist takes an even eye to all of it. Each object is the sign of one more sacrifice, one more piece of a previous life lost.
There is so much rhetoric about the border and what should be done about it, but few of us ever actually see anything concrete. Harbage Page’s attempt to bring a little reality into this abstract issue makes for some striking visual images and physical objects, but the takeaway is a greater understanding of an actual problem in the actual world, that we might just actually be able to do something about. After all, if geese can figure this problem out, so should we.

The Border Project at Flanders Gallery

2011-08-18T00:55:00.002-04:00

October 1 - November 1
Opening Reception November 7
Flanders Art Gallery
302 South West Street
Raleigh, North Carolina 27603

Since 2007, Susan Harbage Page has photographed objects left at the U.S.-Mexico border, both on site in the Rio Grande Valley, and in her studio.


Nest No. 2, Laredo Texas, 2011

Immigrants hide along the Rio Grande as they come north and wait for their next stopping point. The indentations left by their bodies in the grass are referred to as nests.

Women Working - The Photography Issue of Southern Cultures

2011-07-26T18:39:00.002-04:00

The new summer 2011 edition of Southern Cultures edited by Tom Rankin is available online at Project Muse.


Kelly Kiser, 1990, Susan Harbage Page

Women Working photography and interviews by Susan Harbage Page. When Susan Harbage Page worked in 1989-1990 alongside the women in this photo essay, in addition to friendships she also made a poignant record:"‘Rough. It is rough being a female.'"
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More Great Stuff from Southern Cultures.
http://www.southerncultures.org/content/read/read_by_subject/interviews/

Spello Presente opens at Villa Fidelia, Spello, Italy

2011-06-27T11:50:00.002-04:00

Spello Presente - Photographs from Umbria by Susan Harbage Page - Opens this Friday, July 1 at Villa Fidelia in Spello, Italy at 5pm.

Villa Fidelia, Spello, Italy, Via Flaminia, 72 - 06038 - Spello (Pergugia), Tel/fax +39.0742-652547

A Villa Fidelia Spello e l’Umbria catturate dall’obiettivo di Susan Harbage Page 30/06/2011 17.21

Mirror Image at the North Carolina Museum of Art

2011-05-20T15:42:00.001-04:00


Pink Veil, Susan Harbage Page, 2008

May 1 - November 27, 2011
North Carolina Museum of Art

Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women will be on exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art's East Building. Mirror Image examines what it means to be a woman in today's culture. It presents women, from youth to old age, in painting, video, photography, and sculpture from the 1970's through the present. Artist's include Margaret Sartor, Maud Gatewood, Roxana Perez-Mendez, Mary Shanon Johnstone and Susan Harbage Page.

Mirror Image:Women Portraying Women
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/mirror_image/

Cast Aside, Left Behind - Endeavors Magazine

2011-05-18T00:29:00.000-04:00

Cast Aside, Left Behind

Photographs from no-man’s-land: Susan Harbage Page walks the border.

by Margarite Nathe

http://endeavors.unc.edu/cast_aside_left_behind

Walking the Border Intervention

2011-04-17T23:36:00.000-04:00

Residues of Border Control

2011-04-16T22:05:00.000-04:00

NEW BORDER PUBLICATION
Residues of Border Control in Southern Spaces
Susan Harbage Page and Inés Valdez

Striped Clothing, Brownsville, Texas, 2008

Overview:
Since 2007, Susan Harbage Page has photographed objects left at the U.S.-Mexico border, both on site in the Rio Grande Valley, and in her studio. In this photo essay, Inés Valdez comments on the significance of Harbage Page's images of the traces left by immigrants and by those who control the border. Valdez's discussion also challenges the historical representation of the U.S. as a welcoming "nation of immigrants."
http://southernspaces.org/2011/residues-border-control

Southern Photography - Walking the Border

2011-01-26T20:30:00.001-05:00

Southern Photography Blog and recent post Susan Harbage Page at the FedEx Global Education Center

http://southphotography.blogspot.com/2011/01/susan-harbage-page-at-fedex-global.html

Walking the Border Exhibition

2011-01-10T21:54:00.000-05:00

Passing Through Security

2010-12-18T15:18:00.007-05:00

On the way to do a workshop and talk at Western Illinois University "The White Box" passes through security at the Raleigh/Durham International Airport. We arrived on time with no delays.

White Box Performance
White Box and Susan Harbage Page,
White Box, 12" x 12", December 9, 2010

Perceptions of Privilege

2010-12-18T15:14:00.010-05:00

White Box and Susan Harbage Page
On the way to lunch in Macomb, Illinois
November 10, 2010

White Box Performance
http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease.php?release_id=8605

and another link
Visiting Artist Hopes to Change Perceptions of Privilege

http://www.wgem.com/Global/story.asp?S=13648462

Video from the North Carolina Governor's Conference for Women

2010-11-09T20:58:00.008-05:00

Women's Conference Artist Susan Harbage Page News 14com

Artist Susan Harbage Page is an artist and faculty member of UNC Chapel Hill She does largescale photographs altered textiles videos and installations that ...

http://charlotte.news14.com/content/video_stories/632559/women-s-conference--artist-susan-harbage-page?ap=1&MP4

Examining Race and Privilege on A Personal Level

Artist Susan Harbage Page will challenge how you define yourself, your status and your natural ability to influence during this interactive workshop. Through art-making, life experiences and acute self-awareness, Susan possesses a deep understanding of the societal norms that guide everything from policy to daily occurrences. You will leave this session sponsored by Innovation Institute at McColl Center for Visual Art with penetrating insights into how preconceived thinking impacts your world.

Speaker: Susan Harbage
Page

North Carolina Governor's Conference for Women

2010-10-10T15:52:00.002-04:00

November 9, 2010
Raleigh Convention Center
http://www.ncwomensconference.com

The White Box - Changing Perspective of Privilege

In today's Charlotte Observer

2010-09-19T22:33:00.000-04:00

Lives in Flux Tapestry, A Project by Susan Harbage Page

Click Here For Article

McColl Center: A Space for Art

Artists-in-residence get studio area, materials, accommodations and stipends

charlotteobserver.com
September 19, 2010

Call and Response Panel - Saturday, September 18 at McColl Center

2010-09-11T21:01:00.002-04:00

Update

2010-08-15T22:05:00.000-04:00

Just got word that I have been awarded a fellowship this year from the North Carolina Arts Council for my work on the U.S.- Mexican Border.

New Images from the U.S.-Mexican Border

2010-08-15T21:55:00.000-04:00

Objects found walking the U.S. - Mexican Border near Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico

Texas Monthly - The Iron Canvas

2010-04-11T23:02:00.000-04:00

The Iron Canvas
http://www.texasobserver.org/culture/the-iron-canvas