Artwork / Archives / 2015
After 23 years as an Oregonian, in 2015 I moved with my partner first to Virginia and then to New Jersey. For more about why we left Portland check out this art I made about it, and for more about how I ended up a Jersey girl there’s this video summary of 2015.
![Gwenn Seemel](/images/2015/Press15ProfessionalArtistMagazineDavidVanadia.jpg)
In April, I started writing for Professional Artist magazine. This gig was very important to me as it validated my writing in a new way—by paying me for my words for the first time ever. I enjoyed writing for the magazine for a few years, but I ended up quitting because of the publisher’s unethical behavior.
![Gwenn Seemel speaking at the Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre in Beauvais, France](/images/2015/Press15RMLLMartinGeddes.jpg)
In July, I participated in the Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre, a copyleft conference in France. My presentation explained how to free your work while making a living with your art, and it is based on my book, You Share Good. The talk was in French, but there is an English version of it here.
![Gwenn Seemel speaking at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery](/images/2015/Press15ImplicitBiasCharlotteHager.jpg)
In October and November, some of my work was included in Implicit Bias, a group show that was exhibited at multiple locations in DC, including the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery and the Takoma Park location of Busboys and Poets.