Anaïs Duplan, Hope Ginsburg, Melody Jue, Jennifer Lange
Meditation Ocean (gallery guide)
Wexner Center for the Arts, 2023
Sarah Howard
"Sponge Exchange, Hope Ginsburg" (exhibition text)
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, 2020
Denise Markonish
"Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder"
(excerpt from catalog essay)
MASS MoCA, 2016
pp. 50–51
Jennifer Lange
"Land Dive Team: Bay of Fundy" (exhibition text)
THE BOX, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2016
Annie Dell'Aria
"Deep Breathing: Annie Dell'Aria on Meditation Ocean"
Artforum, May 2023
Pablo Helguera
"Reading Assignments: Books that artists study, reference, and base works on."
Beautiful Eccentrics
August 18, 2022
Jennifer Lange
Film/Video Studio Journals: Hope Ginsburg
In Practice, Wexner Center for the Arts
Fall 2021
Emma Colón
"5 Artists Bridging Communities Across Difference"
A Blade of Grass Magazine
March 28, 2019
Sydney Cologie and Brynne McGregor
"Wex Moments 2018: Film/Video Studio artist Hope Ginsburg"
(Q&A)
Wexner Center for the Arts
December 26, 2018
Tim Dodson
"Performative Diving Piece Featured at Festival Honoring the James
River"
Richmond Times-Dispatch
June 9, 2018
Jessica Lynne
"From Climate Change to Race Relations, Artists Respond to
Richmond, VA" (review)
Hyperallergic, 2015
Corina L. Apostol and Nato Thompson, Editors
"Making Another World Possible: 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects"
Routledge, 2020
pp. 277–278
Amanda Tobin Ripley and Julia Harth
Winter / Spring 2023 Learning Guide
Wexner Center for the Arts, 2023
Land Dive Team: Amphibious James
Television Program is a Production of VPM
Producer/Director: Mason Mills
Producer/Field Director: Allison Benedict
September 22, 2019
Art and Education in the 21st Century
Panelists: John Brown-Executive Director, Windgate Foundation; Tom
Finkelpearl-Commissioner, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; Hope
Ginsburg-Artist and Educator; Moderator: Geoffrey Cowan- President,
The Annenberg Foundation Trust
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2014
Performative Diving Piece Featured at Festival Honoring James River
Dozens of people sat on rocks along the James River on Saturday afternoon as sounds of a symphony, wildlife recordings and the heavy breaths of divers emanated from a nearby speaker.
The crowd watched as a small team of divers submerged themselves under the river.
Yards away, another team of divers sat on the land in their scuba gear, quietly meditating as the symphony played in front of them under the shade of a white tent.
Artist Hope Ginsburg, who was leading the performative piece, shared a few words about the river from underneath the water before her team emerged and rejoined their fellow divers on shore.
“As someone who uses my art projects as an opportunity to ... learn socially, learn collectively, this felt like an extraordinary opportunity to not only learn about this river that I live with, but to learn with my community of scientists, adventurers, musicians, artists and divers,” Ginsburg said after the performance, which featured a score composed by Joshua Quarles.
“I hope [the viewers] had an experience of the river that was new,” Ginsburg added.
The project was part of this weekend’s Festival of the River, a three-day series of events inviting the Richmond community to honor the James River that flows through the heart of the city. The festival includes artistic and musical performances, as well as “Back to the Bay” environmentally focused programming as part of Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week.
“The point of it all is to remind people of the importance of the health of the river and the watersheds and the relationship of the watersheds to the river and the river to the Chesapeake Bay,” said David Fisk, executive director of the Richmond Symphony.
The festival coincides with the Richmond Symphony’s 60th anniversary and features multiple symphony performances over the weekend.
“This is the end of our 60th anniversary season — we wanted to do something special at the end that would be remembered but would also bring a lot of people together,” Fisk said. “There’s nothing more special about Richmond than the river.”
The festival started with Friday Cheers performances from the No BS! Brass Band, Richmond Symphony and Grammy Award-winner Rhiannon Giddens. Saturday evening’s performers included the Richmond Symphony and Savion Glover, a Tony Award-winning tap dancer and choreographer.
The festival wraps up Sunday with activities on Brown’s Island from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., including a community picnic where attendees are asked to bring a blanket to donate to a local drive and help arrange into an image of the James River, which will then be captured by aerial photography.
Tim Dodson
"Performative Diving Piece Featured at Festival Honoring the James
River"
Richmond Times-Dispatch
June 9, 2018