Rules of Engagement, will be featured in Black Tongue Review Issue 3, coming out in the beginning of 2013! The series of twenty aprons pairs idealized women, transfer printed onto hostess aprons, with quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. A copy of the artist book that features the series is available here
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Felted Books Pilot workshop at Columbia College Chicago /
Eight Interarts Grad students participated in the test pilot workshop Melissa Potter and I ran, in preparation of our upcoming project Crafting Women's Stories: Lives in Georgian Felt. This project is being supported by a Soros Arts and Culture Grant. Traveling to the Republic of Georgia, along with our colleague Clifton Meador in December, we will be running workshops with various women's groups in Tblisi, as well as the Kakheti and Tusheti regions. We are partnering with The Women's Fund of Georgia [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/53722155 w=500&h=281]
Pilot Felt Workshop at Columbia College Chicago from Melissa Potter on Vimeo.
Baby (not) On Board: The Final Prejudice? is included in Feminism and The Artist's Book At Central Booking /
Selections from Baby (not) On Board: The Final Prejudice? will be included in Central Booking's exhibit Feminism and the Artist’s Book, at 262 Court Street, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11231. The show will be open Saturdays and Sundays, Oct.19 to Dec. 30, with an opening reception Friday, Oct. 19, 6-8 pm. Gallery hours are noon-6 pm, or by appointment; phone: 347-731-6559. I am planning on being at the opening, so if you are in the area, please stop by! The show is being curated by Maddy Rosenberg to run in conjunction with Materializing 'Six Years': Lucy Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, at The Brooklyn Museum.
Blessed Are The Artists: Spirituality and Religion in Contemporary Art /
My work will be included in Blessed Art The Artists: Spirituality and Religion in Contemporary Art, at Visceglia Gallery, Caldewell College, in New Jersey. The show was curated by Yulia Tikanova. There is an opening reception on Thursday October 11, from 5-7 pm. If you are in the area, I hope you will stop by!
Crafting Women's Stories: Lives in Georgian Felt Funded by Soros Arts & Culture grant program! /
The Soros Arts & Culture grant program awarded Clifton Meador, Melissa Potter and Miriam Schaer a grant for our project: Crafting Women’s Stories: Lives in Georgian Felt.
Please check back: I will be posting more about this as the project progresses. We are planning on being in the Republic of Georgia from Mid-December 2012 to the end of January 2013.