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scepterinterviews@gmail.com
SCEPTER is an independent annual publication that proposes a balanced approach to artist interviews. During conversational sessions with artists we discuss collaboration while creating an art piece together. The flow of the dialogue, the location of the encounters, and the mediums we use to create together are all guided by the artist.
Each volume explores a different general theme, and takes place in a new city, allowing us to highlight international perspectives on collaboration, community, and making.
The name comes from the idea that the scepter is an icon of monarchical power; we are metaphorically handing a SCEPTER to each artist, giving them authority over their own interview.
A NOTE ON OUR WEBSITE: This site includes the transcripts of all our interviews. Accessibility is a founding value of SCEPTER; we wanted to create a space for interviews to be free of hierarchy, for conversations to be open-ended and lack the boundaries of traditional art journalism. Although we stand firm in our love for print media, paper comes at a cost. As a self-funded publication, we are unable to afford to bring SCEPTER to stores abroad at this time, despite the importance of place context in this project. The digital archive means to remedy this gap.
SCEPTER is printed across locations on the ancestral land of Turtle Island. SCEPTER is edited between the unceded territories of the Massachusett and Pawtucket People, and the Lenape, Mohican, Kanienʼkehá:ka, and Abenaki People. We want to honor and pay respect to the People who cared for these lands, as well as their descendants who carry the weight of that history today, and we commit to act in the gesture of truth and reconciliation.
SCEPTER is project by dear friends Renée Fritschel and Maitreya Ravenstar.
Each volume explores a different general theme, and takes place in a new city, allowing us to highlight international perspectives on collaboration, community, and making.
The name comes from the idea that the scepter is an icon of monarchical power; we are metaphorically handing a SCEPTER to each artist, giving them authority over their own interview.
A NOTE ON OUR WEBSITE: This site includes the transcripts of all our interviews. Accessibility is a founding value of SCEPTER; we wanted to create a space for interviews to be free of hierarchy, for conversations to be open-ended and lack the boundaries of traditional art journalism. Although we stand firm in our love for print media, paper comes at a cost. As a self-funded publication, we are unable to afford to bring SCEPTER to stores abroad at this time, despite the importance of place context in this project. The digital archive means to remedy this gap.
SCEPTER is printed across locations on the ancestral land of Turtle Island. SCEPTER is edited between the unceded territories of the Massachusett and Pawtucket People, and the Lenape, Mohican, Kanienʼkehá:ka, and Abenaki People. We want to honor and pay respect to the People who cared for these lands, as well as their descendants who carry the weight of that history today, and we commit to act in the gesture of truth and reconciliation.
SCEPTER is project by dear friends Renée Fritschel and Maitreya Ravenstar.
Renée Fritschel
b. 2001
Cambridge, MA
Renée’s introduction to art and creating began when she learned how to sew at age 6. Textiles were, and still are, an important framework for how she sees the world; pattern and texture now influence her work as a painter. She is fascinated by simple forces of nature, like light and water. Her work explores these themes as well as nostalgia and connection.
She has two rock tattoos.
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Maitreya Ravenstar
b. 2003
New York, NY
Maitreya is a writer, photographer, oral historian and documentary artist striving to address the multiplicities of truth in nonfiction creative work. She highlights individual voices, the nuances of memory, and the context of place, leading to the superimposition of perspectives and timelines to explore the mysticism of human relationships and their histories.
She has two bird tattoos.
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