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Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop

December 8th, 2010 – February 5th, 2011, at the Grolier Club, New York City, will display 40 book works from over 30 years of artists-in-residence at Women’s Studio Workshop.
Jan 25, 2011.  2 – 4pm Panel Discussion
Free and Open to the Public.
Artists Clarissa Sligh, Susan Mills and Emily Speed will speak about artists’ books in connection [...]

Publish Your Photography Book

The New York Public Library presents Artist Career Development Series Event Publish Your Photography Book with Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson on  Wednesday December 1, 2010 at 6:00 p.m., in Margaret Liebman Berger Forum Room 227 (2 nd Floor), Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (476 Fifth Avenue – 5th Ave. and 42nd Street, New York , NY 10018 – [...]

VSW Photo-Bookworks Symposium: Closing Comments

I was the moderator for this conference in early July; many people suggested I seek publication for my closing comments, and it took me this long for the lightbulb to go off—ding!—I have a means of publication always at my ready. So here are my remarks; there are some last-minute notes that I seem to [...]

Annual powerHouse Arena Book and Tag Sale July 28 – September 6

VSW Photo-Bookworks Symposium begins tomorrow, July 1

(I am the moderator for this symposium next week; I hope to see some site visitors there!)

D.A.P.|Artbook and Visual Studies Workshop present:

ARTBOOK @ VSW

A temporary art bookstore at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.

Opening as part of the 2010 Photo-Booksworks Symposium at VSW
July 1-3, 2010 and accompanied by a program of artists [...]

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  • Taking a Break May 18, 2012
    Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
  • What if there were no more art galleries? May 18, 2012
    6×6 – An Art Version of a Music Festival ABOUT THIS PROJECT What is 6×6? Beginning on September 8, 2011, our roaming gallery Baang and Burne Contemporary will present 6×6, (six by six) a series of six, back to back, one week only art exhibitions in New York City. 6×6 was created by artists, for artists. Essentially 6×6, is [.. […]
  • The Stoop Gallery Call for Submissions May 18, 2012
    The Stoop Gallery is currently accepting submissions for the upcoming show date and theme: Art. Science. Body: How art and science merge to create identity narratives. July 30, 2011 This week, Psychology Today published an article focusing on why African American women are less physically attractive than other women. The methodology of the research was not m […]