NEWS
Mo(u)rning Prayer is included in Let Books Be Your Pleasure Gardens: Modern Artists Illustrate Jewish Texts, at Yale
April 04, 2011
My piece Mo(u)rning Prayer is included in Let Books Be Your Pleasure Gardens: Modern Artists Illustrate Jewish Texts, an exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University, New Haven, CT April 11 to July 5, 2011
Curated by Nanette Stahl, Curator, Judaica Collection
Sterling Memorial Library, 128 Wall Street, New Haven, CT
There are several events that are free and open to the public. You can find out more about that here
Miriam Schaer is Artist in Residence at the Estonian Academy of Art in Tallinn!
March 25, 2011
I am so excited to be back in Tallinn! I was here in 1998, participating in the 11th Tallinn Print Triennial, in an exhibition called Reincarnation: Book. It was great to be here again to see the 15th Print Triennial, which is up now at the new Kumu Art Museum. Liina Siib and Eve Kask invited me to come during my spring break from Columbia College Chicago to be an Visiting Artist at the Estonian Academy of Fine Art, to lecture and give workshops for the students. In addition to the image below, you can see more images of Tallin, the Academy and the workshops, in the album on my Facebook Page! I lectured on artist books, taught some book structures and alternative printmaking, like gum bichromate and cyannotype. You can also see images from the Nuku Muuseum (puppet museum)! It has been quite a marvelous experience!!!!
After my Wednesday evening lecture, students and others came and asked questions. Photo by Kristina Kruuse
Catalog for The Book: A Contemporary View, is now on-line
March 08, 2011
A lovely interactive catalog for The Book: A Contemporary View is now on-line
(my piece is on page 32)
Process and Product at Cheltenham Center for the Arts
February 21, 2011
I am pleased to have Heart Control included in Process and Product at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts. Curated by Bonnie Whitfield and Lisa Heller
Process and Product: An Invitational Exhibition of Book and Paper Arts
February 13-March 5, 2011
Cheltenham Center for the Arts
439 Asebourne Road
Cheltenham, PA 19012
miriamschaer.com included in website line up in Textiel Plus!
February 16, 2011
My website is included in the current issue of Textiel Plus, a wonderful magazine from the Netherlands that focuses on fiber as an art form!
Raw Beauty: The Video
February 02, 2011
I’m so pleased to share with you a video tour of Raw Beauty: An Exhibition of Sculpture at Arts Council of Princeton, with the exhibition’s curator, Rebecca Kelly. My piece No Ornament So Precious As The Labor Of Their Hands is included.
Raw Beauty: an exhibition of sculpture from andrew wilkinson on Vimeo.
In Time for Valentine’s Day: My Work On the Web!
I have been long fascinated by shaped bindings, and heart-shaped books have become a large part of my visual vocabulary. This February, I have work featured on three different websites:
Batter My Heart: A Wall Street Valentine (below) is featured, along with an interview on chicagopublishes.com
Books of the Heart at Baylor University Click on the tab at the top of the page: Your Favorite Love Songs. Curated from the collection, Your Favorite Love Songs is the first heart-shaped book I made.
Finally, Love and Madness (which incorporates everyone’s favorite Neitzche quote about love) is the featured book for Feburary on Vamp and Tramp Booksellers website.
Everyday Fictions: Artist Books and Other Work by Miriam Schaer and Susan Newmark
January 31, 2011
Everyday Fictions: Artist Books and Other Work by Miriam Schaer and Susan Newmark is up now!
On view is the new work from Baby (not) On Board: The Last Prejudice? which is also on view on Nanomajority.com
The first reception is tonight at 5.30. I hope you can stop by if you are in the neighborhood. January 26 – March 2, 2011 Receptions: Monday, January 31, 5:30 – 8 pm & Saturday, February 12, 12 – 3 pm. Gallery Talk by Susan Newmark: Tues, February 8, 12:40 pm
St. Joseph’s College Alumni Room Gallery, Tuohy Hall 245 Clinton Avenue, between Willoughby and DeKalb Avenues, Brooklyn, NY Gallery Hours: Wed, 4 – 8 pm and Sat, 12– 3 pm, and by appointment.
Directions: Take the G train to Clinton/Washington Ave stop For information: 718-399-0358 or www.sjcny.edu
Capturing the Quotidian: Book Artists Explore New Tools–Performance, Travel and Story Collecting–to Reveal a Community’s Character
January 11, 2011
My article, Capturing the Quotidian: Book Artists Explore New Tools–Performance, Travel and Story Collecting–to Reveal a Community’s Character, is out now and available in The Bonefolder! Download it for free!
Baby (Not) On Board: The Last Prejudice?
January 04, 2011
My newest work, Baby (Not) on Board:The Last Prejudice? addresses the question of why so many people are angered by women who choose childlessness. The work presented here is part of an ongoing exploration of our culture’s pejorative views about women without kids. Gathered from interviews with childless women, online research, and personal experience, the comments are typical of an endless flow of critical statements that seem to be growing bolder, even as non-traditional families are gaining greater acceptance.
