Randy Lee Cutler facts for kids

Randy Lee Cutler (born 1964) is a talented writer, artist, and teacher from Canada. She was born in Quebec in 1964. She lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Randy Lee Cutler has a special degree called a PhD in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art. Today, she is a Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she teaches art.

Randy Lee Cutler's Writing

Randy Lee Cutler writes about art and culture. She contributed to an important book called Vancouver Singular Plural: Art in an Age of Post-Medium Practice. This book explored how artists use many different types of art forms, not just one. Her writing helps us understand art in new ways.

Essays and Articles

Randy Lee Cutler also wrote an essay called O My friends…: On Friendship and Artistic Practice. Artists Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan asked her to write it for a book about their work. In this essay, she explains that friendship can help artists be more creative. She looks at how friendship has been seen throughout history and how it connects to art.

Selected Publications

• Crystal Queer in The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing, 2015
• On Speculative Walking: From the Peripatetic to the Peristaltic in C Magazine, 2014
• Review: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico: The 55th International Art Exhibition in C Magazine, Fall 2013
• FeminismS without End... in FUSE Magazine, Fall 2012
• Making Metaphors in A Spectrum of Difference, Fillip Review, Spring 2009

Randy Lee Cutler's Art Projects

Randy Lee Cutler creates art using many different methods. She makes collages, performs, writes texts, and even creates digital e-books and posters. She sometimes uses an artistic name, Hedda Cabbage, for her performances.

Leaning Out of Windows

From 2016 to 2020, Randy Lee Cutler co-led a big project called "Leaning Out of Windows" with Ingrid Koenig. This project aimed to connect art and science. It brought together students and teachers from Emily Carr University with scientists from TRIUMF at the University of British Columbia. They worked together to explore what reality is, using both art and science ideas. The project ended with a book that included essays by Cutler and showed the amazing work of artists like Marina Roy and Mimi Gellman.

Saltwalks

"Saltwalks: Three Movements" was a unique art project where Randy Lee Cutler invited people to interact with her. It involved tasting different kinds of edible salt. These walks helped people understand how salt has influenced our society and culture. Each of the three walks had a special theme:

• The first walk explored Chinese herbal remedies with an herbalist named Albert Fok.
• The second walk focused on food preservation and how salt affected food, land, and harvests. Local artist Howie Tsui joined this walk.
• The final walk looked at the crystal shapes of salt and their connection to healing energy. Participants visited a crystal shop in Chinatown with owner Edward Gutierrez.

Open Wide: An E-book

In 2014, Randy Lee Cutler released an ebook called Open Wide: An Abecedarium for the Great Digestive System. This book uses the idea of digestion as a way to understand experiences. The book follows the alphabet, like a journey through the digestive system. It includes illustrations, media, and sounds created by many artists, including Abbas Akhavan, Geoffrey Farmer, Allison Hrabluik, Germaine Koh, Elizabeth MacKenzie, Liz Magor, Cindy Mochizuki, Marina Roy, and Holly Schmidt.

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

• Salt Walks, as part of the group show Gleaners, Nanaimo Art Gallery, BC 2015
• A Joyful Wisdom (collages and installation), part of the group show Beside Yourself, AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, University of British Columbia, 2014
• Salt Walks: Three Movements, at VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC, 2014
• By Way of the Intersection, part of the Shelved curatorial project with Burnaby Art Gallery and Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2014
• Salt Walks: Three Movements, at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in collaboration with Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2014
• Kitchen Semiotics, Innovate Heritage: Conversations between Arts and Heritage, Berlin, Germany, 2014

Interviews

Randy Lee Cutler has been interviewed about her work. One interview is titled "A Conversation w/Randy Lee Cutler" by Jeremy Todd.