Press Highlights</p> — Marisa Morán Jahn

Chicago Tribune: “Artist Marisa Morán Jahn has made a practice of looking at civic spaces and the radical art of play…”

The Art Newspaper: “…[The National Public Housing Museum] features several contemporary art commissions that tell stories of resilience, like the monumental permanent mural ReCreation by Marisa Morán Jahn, an artist and co-founder of Carehaus, a forthcoming co-housing project in Chicago and Baltimore for elderly residents and their families and caregivers. The work, an amalgamation of black-and-white photographs showing moments of joy, covers three floors of the museum and celebrates solidarity in public housing communities.”

AARP’s Sally Abrahms: “[Carehaus’] care-based, intergenerational cohousing concept is creating buzz.”

Marianna Janowicz in Architectural Review: “Carehaus, the US’s first intergenerational care-based co-housing building, devised by architect Rafi Segal, with artist Marisa Morán Jahn and developer Ernst Valery, directly addresses the question of exchange of labour in the kitchen.”

Architect Magazine’s Editor in Chief, Paul Makovsky: “[Jahn and Segal’s book] explores innovative, thought-provoking examples of design solidarity from both the past and present.”

The Nation’s Bryce Covert: “Someday people who need assistance might choose to live in something like Carehaus, a residence where the elderly, caregivers [and their families] live together. Artist and filmmaker Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal, who are launching the first Carehaus next year, started the project because of their personal experiences [with care].”

ArtForum’s Alex Fialho: “[Jahn combines] art and advocacy within and beyond gallery walls, exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice.”

In an article entitled “3 Experiments to Help Reduce Senior Care Worker Shortages,” Forbes’ Howard Gleckman points to Carehaus a “modest, low-cost experiments may help in small ways today and point the way to bigger, longer-term solutions.”

“Where We Grow Older” (2023) is a half hour documentary film produced by Giovanna Borasi and directed by Daniel Schwartz for the Centre for Canadian Architecture featuring Marisa Morán Jahn, Rafi Segal, and Ernst Valery as they create Carehaus.

In “Blueprint for Living,” a podcast produced ABC Australia, host Jonathan Green interviews Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal about their book and Carehaus project.

In “Aging Fast and Slow,” a podcast produced by Johns Hopkins University, hosts Drs. Sarah Szanton and Deidre Weeks interview Marisa Morán Jahn and Micah Campbell Smith about art, mutualism, and structural resilience.

Canadian Architect: “[Carehaus] is a promising pilot. If expanded, and more fully funded, it could profoundly reverse patterns of isolation and neglect that have damaged and divided people around the world.

The New York Times: “[The CareForce One] film series documents a family road trip from New York to Miami, during which a mother, her son and their friends join housekeepers, nannies, caregivers and other workers along the route to explore how immigration and racial discrimination affect those jobs.”

Hyperallergic': “CareForce One Travelogues focuses on an American experience that’s not often in the foreground of popular culture: caregiving.”

Mic.com’s Gabriela Resto-Montero: “‘CareForce One Travelogues’ draws new connections between women’s work, race, and class.”

The New York Times’ Annie Correal: “[The] NannyVan aims to teach domestic workers about their rights…”

Hyperallergic: [The NannyVan is a] ”gussied-up superhero ride” and “a working diagram for other artists with a social practice to follow and build upon.”

CNN names Domestic Worker App as “one of 5 apps to change the world”

MIT Cast: “Jahn is interested in artistic interventions in non-art contexts, which is the subject of her book Byproduct. Her art is a form of serious play that demonstrates the value of injecting creative thinking into the the bloodstream of workaday culture. She introduces a trickster-like humor into public spaces and discourses, and yet it is a humor edged with political potency.”

In “Commoning Design & Design Commons,” a podcast produced by ITU Copenhagen, Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal discuss their new book, Design Solidarity, and how it informs their art and architectural work.

Kamal Sinclair for Immerse News: A book authored by artist and educator Marisa Jahn, Byproduct (2010, YYZBooks), outlines “a robust culture of artist residencies and fellowships embedded in science and technology institutions in the mid-twentieth century. She noted that despite the resurgence of embedded residencies today, the history is under-chronicled, which can lead to organizations wasting cycles by reinventing the wheel.”

GOOD Magazine describes New Day New Standard as “a new public art project [..] using humor as a vehicle to educate workers, their bosses, and the public about the New York Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights…New Day New Standard turns the idea of an information hotline on its headset."

BBC Latino describes the power of New Day New Standard: "La novedad es lo que se escucha al otro lado de la línea: episodios con formato de talk show radial y en clave de humor, pensados para volver ‘digerible’ la letra dura de la regulación neoyorquina.”

After Jahn’s presentation at Obama’s White House, Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, calls New Day New Standard "super cool.“

In “Agonizing over Agonism,” The Walter Art Center interviews Carl di Salvo, Warren Sack, and Marisa Morán Jahn about how difference can fuel democracy.

Fast Company calls Contratados “a storytelling tool …which helps protect migrant workers from fraud and abuse.”

The Nation’s Michelle Chen notes, “Contratados is a project that "meshes worker solidarity with digital technology in a user-friendly format—part pocket-sized know-your-rights training, part Yelp—with the the street-level sensibility of the workers’ centers that aid migrant workers on the ground in their communities.”

“Contratados.org has the promise to bring a much needed dose of sunlight to the recruitment process, and to shine it on recruiters themselves…[the project] constitutes a big leap forward for transparency and fairness for internationally recruited temporary foreign workers.” — The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank working for the last 30 years to counter rising inequality, low wages and weak benefits for working people, slower economic growth, unacceptable employment conditions, and a widening racial wage gap.

ArtForum’s Chloë Rossetti on Bibliobandido: "Now there are eighteen participating villages and five hundred kids involved in this whole charade.”

Joseph del Pesco in ArtPulse: “…disrupting conventions is built into [Jahn’s] politics […] and attitude toward cultural production.”

Dena Beard in Art Practical: “[Recipes for an Encounter] is like Guy Debord masquerading as Julia Child, or vice versa; its friendly instructions undermine elitist tropes, embracing the occurrence of a happy accident while maintaining a healthy distrust of empty gestures.”

Selected from hundreds of reviews in CNN Money, Discovery Channel, Popular Science, Rhizome.org, Frieze, Art Papers, PBS Newshour Extra, Folha de Sao Paolo, Univision, La Prensa, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, El Universal, Air France flight magazine — and an appearance in Pokemon GO!