Just in time for Mother’s Day, Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design and Maternity was reviewed on Hyperallergic. I was thrilled my photograph, Ida and Tabitha #39 was selected as the image for the article. Art Historian Jennie Klein’s essay about my work, The Mother Without Child/The Child Without Mother: Miriam Schaer’s Interrogation of Maternal Ideology, Reproductive Trauma, and Death, is included in this collection of brilliant essays about the complexities around motherhood, parenting, and care giving. You can download Jennie Klein’s essay here. Due to the Pandemic, all posts are a bit behind. This review appeared on May 8, 2020.
We Miss Her, from The Bristol Art Library, featured on Instagram /
This past May, The Bristol Art Library, featured We Miss Her, an artist book I made specifically for the library in 2001, on Instagram Created with hankies I transfer printed as well as ran thru my ink jet printer and embroidered, the text of the book is Emily Dickinson’s poem (number 993) We Miss Her. The poem is more poignant now, given world events. The Head Librarian asked me to make a short video, talking about the book. Due to the Pandemic, all posts are a bit behind. This project and video was posted on Instagram in May 2020.
Miriam Schaer talks about her artist book, We Miss Her (text by Emily Dickinson) created for the Bristol Art Library, in 2001. The video was created for the post on Instagram in 2020
A Festschrift for Bill /
A number of artists created prints in memory of Vamp & Tramp’s Bill Stewart, contibuting to a Festschrift honoring his life and contribution to the bookarts. This Herculean undertaking was organized by Marnie Powers-Torrey. Bill was a great supporter of my work, but also a friend who would check in and cheer me on! He passed in late 2019, and is greatly missed. I selected the title for my print, Let Books Be Your Pleasure Gardens, as it was also an exhibition of artist books at Yale, and seemed the perfect tribute. Due to the Pandemic, all posts are a bit behind. This project was completed in May 2020.
Celebrating the release of Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity at CAA2020! /
Please join me at several events to celebrate the publishing of Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design and Maternity at CAA. A book presentation on Thursday February 13 from 12.30-1.30, (Waldorf Room, WCA Biz Meeting) Book Launch Friday February 14, 6.30 at Hilton 720 South Bar, hosted by Niku Kashef, and a CAA session Panel on Saturday February 15, 4-5.30 (Hilton room 4M) with contributors Rachel Epp Buller, and Charles Reeve, and contributors Niku Kashef, Jennie Klein, Alicia Harris, and Natalie Loveless. I am honored to have my work included in this volume, written about in Jennie Klein’s (amazing) essay
Art Happens: Amazing Women at CAA2020 Chicago! /
Chicago friends and those who will be at CAA! I will be in conversation with joan giroux on Thursday February 13, from 10.30-12 noon in ARTspace, Hilton Chicago-Lower Level C-4 (free and open to the public) on the panel Art Happens: Amazing Women. Moderated by Joan and Reni Gower, there will be conversations with Reni and Virginia Derryberry, Kristy Deetz and Phyllis Bramson, joan giroux and myself. It would be great to see you there! This panel is free and open to the public!