Last Friday morning, I gathered with about 90 interested folks at the Celeste Bartos Theatre in New York to hear a talk by MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, Paola Antonelli. This was the latest Creative Morning, a concept/event developed by the energetic Tina Roth Eisenberg. You might know her as Swiss Miss. Street [...]
If you happen to be in Michigan between now and June 15th, make your way to Ypsilanti (the eastern part of the state) to see this awesome new show at the Ford Gallery (Eastern Michigan University). According to the site: The exhibition investigates the role of the book in the contemporary art world. For this [...]
Regina Silveira’s room of screenprint transfers. The Philagraphika Print Show is coming to a close this Sunday in Philadelphia and I wish I could check it out in person. The print collaborative (as they were originally called) was established in 2000 and they have a comprehensive website for the desert-stranded. Paul Morrison’s 40-foot wall exterior, [...]
These are some photos I took this morning after setting up the exhibition – Making Memory: Stories of Nonfiction in Artists’ Books – in the Main Library! Like everything, it still feels like a work in progress, and I’ll go back next week with final touches and more photos. Ah, fluorescent lighting. But still, books [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the University of Arizona’s Special Collections scouting the stacks for artists’ books to include in an upcoming exhibition, The Secret Lives of Artists’ Books: Stories of Nonfiction (that I’m curating!). The Reading Room at Special Collections at the University of Arizona With [...]
Just after returning from the DR, I had a day or so to wander the streets of New York. Wanting to check out the Bauhaus Exhibition at the MoMA, I called my city-dwelling brother (one of three brothers total, and a sister) and we headed uptown. These are my feet on the escalator to the [...]
I am spending a few days this week in my old, beloved stomping grounds: New York City. While here, there are a few exhibits and events I am super excited to check out and thought I’d share them here. First on the list was the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum where the Design for a Living [...]