contact:
itisjessiemccarty@gmail.com
personal projects:
runaways lab theater (artistic director)
queer folk’s archive (indexer)
mincine cinema archive (archive technician)
i read stuff (bookseller)
education:
creative writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
cataloging, California Rare Book School, UCLA Informational Sciences
experience:
the Mincicine? Cinema archive, archives processing, digital assets, video digitizing (seasonal)
the sandra binion archives, archives processing, metadata, video digitizing.
vivian g. harsh special collections, archives processing, technical writing, database management, using DACS and AARC2, (contract)
potter auctions, catalogs and paper ephemera, digital management, descriptive cataloging, inventory, appraisal
sweet void cinema, digital assets, and video processing (contract)
awards
2023 Best New Poet, The Bovine Huff, Chicago Reader.
Best New Poetry Book, The Bovine Huff, Chicago Reader.
2022 Italy International Scholarship, California Rare Book School.
Librarianship in Praxis Scholarship, The California Rare Book School.
2017 Best New Art Film, Love in July, Bossier City Arts Council.
books:
Our Fairy Diary, I Read Stuff Bookstore. Chicago, IL. 2023.
The Bovine Huff, Track and Field Studios. Austin, TX. 2021.
chapbooks
2024
Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions - dramaturgy archive,
The Sarcoma Cycle, an Indexed Dramaturgy - dramaturgy archive, 11:11 Press, Runaways Lab Theater
review by Dennis Cooper: https://denniscooperblog.com/please-welcome-to-the-world-ultratheatre-volume-1-by-logan-berry-1111-press/
publications:
2024 Catalogs as a way to self-soothe. Thick Press, Chicago.
2023 Memories of Sinead O’Connor. The Documentarian, Chicago, IL.
theater:
2024 Lamb Play. Runaways Lab Theater, Rhino Fringe Festival. Chicago, IL.
The Explanatory Gap, Queer Bibliography Conference 2024,The California Rare Book School. Indexer. Dir. Niky Crawford. Los Angeles,
2022 Somethings Just Fall Down, a Published Dramaturgy. Perforated Play, Facility Theater. Chicago, IL. 2022.
2019 Affection as a Space Vacuum. Runaways Lab Theater, Rhino Fringe Festival. Chicago, IL.
video:
2024 my progress is none of your business. Runaways Lab Theater, comfort station, opening for Carter St. Hogan, 11:11 press. Chicago, IL.
2023 Perforated play. Facility Theater, Hate Lab, Runaways Lab Theater. Filmed in Modena, Italy.
2017 Love in July. Chicago International Film Festival, Cine Youth. Chicago, IL.
2016 Love in July. Bossier City Arts Council. Bossier City, LA.
leadership:
Committee Member. Queer Bibliography 2024. The California Rare Book School. Los Angeles, CA.
private workshops:
A List is a Letter: Center for Fiction
Index is a Diary: Index Space
Immersion Mediums, teaching personal archives for students 8 - 10: The Lower School
trained in:
archives, archives processing, assets, asset management, cataloging, critical cataloging, digital asset management, DAMS: Synology NAS, Bynder, Oracle; digitization, dramaturgy, metadata, poetics, video.