Atomic Sublime

Title: Atomic Sublime
Medium: Art Book
Creators: Essays by Lovely Umayam, Art by Tammy Nguyen, Technical Advice by Karen Hogue and Jennifer Wagner, Creative Advice by Adriel Luis
Publisher: Passenger Pigeon Press
Price: $40

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Lovely Umayam is the Founder and Creative Producer of the Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective. Bombshelltoe brings artists, historians, policy experts, scientists, and community members together to develop multi-disciplinary research and creative pieces exploring nuclear weapons arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. By combining nuclear expertise and artistic expression, Bombshelltoe highlights the humanity in nuclear policy to resonate with people who currently feel disengaged. Bombshelltoe was the winner of the inaugural US Department of State’s Innovation in Arms Control Challenge in 2013. Currently in development at Bombshelltoe is Ways of Knowing, a multimedia project in partnership with Navajo community members that showcases hope and resilience after decades of uranium mining in the American Southwest. Bombshelltoe is also a contributor to the DC installation of The Color Curtain Project, an art book and culinary experience that examines the origins of the Non-Aligned Movement and the interplay between colonialism, racism, and nuclear weapons. Most recently, Bombshelltoe completed the artbook Atomic Sublime in collaboration with Tammy Nguyen at Passenger Pigeon Press, and an experimental website "Illuminating Radioactivity" in partnership with Tubik Studios—all creative channels to teach the science of radiation. 

Lovely’s policy research and creative work have been featured in Fast Company, SXSW, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Atlantic, Vice, PopTech, The New Republic, MoMA PS1, the Associated Press, among others.

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