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Hand, Voice, & Vision: Artists’ books from Women’s Studio Workshop on display at the Grolier Club, NYC. 2011

Past Exhibitions

Hand, Voice, & Vision Exhibition – Traveling Exhibition, 2011

Hand, Voice, & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop features artists’ books by thirty-six artists published over thirty years by Women’s Studio Workshop. Curated by Kathleen Walkup, who was at the time the director of the Book Arts Program at Mills College. The exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective featuring some of the most influential contemporary book artists in America. It opened at the Grolier Club in New York and traveled to University of Southern Maine, Smith College, Vassar College, Carleton College, and Scripps College, among others.

The forty works in Hand, Voice, & Vision celebrate three facets that characterize the artist’s book program at Women’s Studio Workshop: the handmade mark of the book-maker, the unique voices and viewpoints of a broad and diverse range of artists, and the visionary nature of artwork that forges new directions in the medium of book arts. Hear more about the exhibition in a short video featuring curator Kathleen Walkup, or view the recording of the panel discussion at the Grolier Club featuring artists Susan Mills, Clarissa Sligh, and Emily Speed.

A comprehensive, fully illustrated catalog accompanies the exhibition and makes a great supplementary teaching material for any book arts curriculum. It contains essays by WSW alumnae Susan Mills, Clarissa Sligh, and Emily Speed; Deirdre Lawrence, art librarian at the Brooklyn Museum; Patricia Phillips, Dean of Graduate Studies at Rhode Island School of Design; Jae Rossman, Special Collections curator at Yale; Erica Van Horn, independent artist; Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator at Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College; Susan Viguers, Director of the MFA of Arts Program at the University of the Arts; Dawn McCusker, Associate Professor of Graphic Design at James Madison University; Ron Patkus, Head of Special Collections and Associate Professor of History at Vassar College; Sylvia Turchyn, Director of Cataloguing at Indiana University in Bloomington; Steven Andersen, independent writer and artist; and Kathy Walkup, the exhibition curator.  Hand, Voice, & Vision exhibition catalog, 120 p., fully illustrated, 11″ x 7.5″.