Home Affairs
And Everything Else II
And Everything Else II, 2026, screen-printed original posters reprinted on newsprint
And Everything Else II, 2026, screen-printed original posters reprinted on newsprint
About the project
The work in this exhibition continues to bring attention to questions of representation and support relative to the artist as caregiver and cultural producer. Whether parents, caregiver of the elderly, of children or differently abled, persons, institutional support and access continue to fall short of awareness and need. Our installation re-presents posters from our 2017 collaboration with artists/mothers/caregivers. Originally, each participant created a visual representation of the complexities they experienced as a creative who is also a parent or caregiver, and Home Affairs handprinted two silkscreen editions each: one for the artist and one for the collective. This exhibition includes three of the original screen-printed posters and our new (2026) Home Affairs, Manifesto: A look at where these issues are now, ten years later. As before, we are inviting gallery goers to take a reprinted poster with them. We’d like the message to circulate.
Biography
Home Affairs is an interdisciplinary art collective that develops creative projects addressing issues that shape women's lives. Since 2011, the collective has collaborated with women across Türkiye, Europe, and the United States to create platforms for dialogue, community participation and social exchange. Working across art, design, publishing, and community engagement, Home Affairs explores the intersections of gender, culture, and everyday life. The collective received its first design patent in 2020 for ArtSit; an innovative wheeled museum chair designed to enhance children's engagement with art and cultural spaces.
Arzu Ozkal is a Turkish-born artist, designer, and educator whose work explores design activism, social participation, and the ways self-publishing and artist networks shape contemporary culture. She is a founding member of Home Affairs and has exhibited her work internationally. Her work is included in major public and private collections. Ozkal is co-editor of Cabaret Voltaire: Fluxus West, San Diego, and Southern California Mail Art (with Mila Waldeck) and Gün: Women’s Networks: Turkey (with Claudia Pederson). She is Professor of Graphic Design at San Diego State University.
Nanette Yannuzzi Macias is a conceptual artist and writer whose work has engaged pressing cultural and social issues, from women's rights and environmental concerns to poetry and personal histories. She received a BFA from Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. She was a fellow at the Whitney Museum ISP and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Yannuzzi, is the co-founder of the art collective Home Affairs and is based in Cleveland, Ohio. She has retired after 30 years of teaching art at Oberlin College and Conservatory.
