Articles and Reviews of The Body Appropriate

The Body Appropriate: The new death movement
on KALW, San Francisco's Public Radio
Listen to the 9 minute podcast here.
“Yea, those are human brains.”
I’m looking into a wooden display cabinet with Stephanie Stewart Bailey.
“It's kind of like a yellowy color they're in right now because they're still leaching liquid and blood and just different pigments and that's just a natural process,” she says.
We’re in the SOMA district of San Francisco and Stewart Bailey is showing me around her tiny, bedroom-sized museum. You could walk down the quiet alley it’s on and easily miss it.
“I curate The Body Appropriate. It's my own private studio gallery all based on anatomy and death culture and dying as well.”
Stewart Bailey works at the science museum the Exploratorium. But she started this space in July of 2014 as a way to fully explore her morbid fascination. Before it was a museum, it was her private artists studio -- she lives in a warehouse space behind the museum.
“Death is kind of having a moment right now. People are actually talking about it. The DIY artist generation is starving for a way to connect to death,” she says.
on KALW, San Francisco's Public Radio
Listen to the 9 minute podcast here.
“Yea, those are human brains.”
I’m looking into a wooden display cabinet with Stephanie Stewart Bailey.
“It's kind of like a yellowy color they're in right now because they're still leaching liquid and blood and just different pigments and that's just a natural process,” she says.
We’re in the SOMA district of San Francisco and Stewart Bailey is showing me around her tiny, bedroom-sized museum. You could walk down the quiet alley it’s on and easily miss it.
“I curate The Body Appropriate. It's my own private studio gallery all based on anatomy and death culture and dying as well.”
Stewart Bailey works at the science museum the Exploratorium. But she started this space in July of 2014 as a way to fully explore her morbid fascination. Before it was a museum, it was her private artists studio -- she lives in a warehouse space behind the museum.
“Death is kind of having a moment right now. People are actually talking about it. The DIY artist generation is starving for a way to connect to death,” she says.
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