Contributed writings

“Unrecognized Creative Labor: A Critique of the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award,” Art Documentation 38, no. 2, Fall 2019, edited by Judy Dyki.

 

Abstract: As an interwoven case study, the paper examines the ARLIS/NA George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award (1980-present), a hybrid award that celebrates the scholarly achievement and design and production excellence of art publications. In the award’s history, however, it has not credited the contributions of graphic designers, typesetters, printers, and other creative laborers. The article questions these omissions by analyzing citation structures and systems of description shared by publishers, booksellers, and libraries, as well as by exposing the invisibilities so often allied to graphic design. A revision of the Wittenborn Award bibliography is proposed as a retrospective corrective to these oversights.

 

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“Freedom of the Presses: Activating Library Resources Through Collaborative Curating,” conversation between Bridget Elmer, Janelle Rebel, and Marshall Weber in Freedom of the Presses: Artists’ Books in the 21st Century, edited by Marshall Weber, Booklyn, 2018. Table of contents here.

 

Freedom of the Presses was a multi-site exhibition and event program at Ringling College of Art + Design that ran from October 20-December 2, 2017. It was co-curated by Booklyn, Inc. and members of the Ringling College community.

 

[The book] Freedom of the Presses provides perspectives on how to deconstruct colonial and contemporary restraints on the concept, content, design, production, and distribution of artists’ and activists’ publications along with models of how to reimagine artists’ bookmaking as a socially engaged practice. —back cover

 

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“There is nothing to see here...,” Canon, 2015, Visual & Critical Studies Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Canon is a yearly publication with a variable format directed by Joseph Grigely. The 2015 edition brought together fourteen interdisciplinary contributors in a portable accordion fold publication. "There is nothing to see here" is a written review on the experience of watching The Figment Project, a 24-hour live webcam installed at the gravesite of Andy Warhol.