Fall Updates

Dear Subscribers,

I started a newsletter, and then I didn’t make one all summer because I was busy in rivers and streams and in my life. But here I am!

xo,
Alice P.

Work
You heard it here first… Gnomic Book is publishing Birth Work, a photobook collecting over ten years of my documentary photographs looking at what birth is and what it can be. I’m finalizing edits and funding and it will be in the world soon!

I spent the summer working on Containment/Transmission, a pair of installations about psychological formation, motherwork, diasporic Jewish identity, quilting and a bit of Rodney Dangerfield. It’s a wild departure for me and I love it.

Events
I spoke with Chris Gregory-Rivera at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Called El Archivo Radical: La memoria como activismo, the talk was facilitated by curator Abdiel Segarra and supported by Aperture.

Chris and I led an Aperture workshop at MAC the next day were we got to work with local educators, photographers, activists and archivists. I’ve been so encouraged by the wide-ranging interest in recontextualizing archives among all kinds of audiences.

Education
I’ve started leading workshops at Baxter St: Ally Caple’s group of Expanding the Walls students visited Qiana Mestrich’s The Reinforcements and made photo collage/archival work in response. I’ll be facilitating free tours and workshops with upcoming shows at the gallery, let me know if you’d like to bring students.

I co-led a workshop series with art therapist Naomi Cohen-Thompson in collaboration with Working Assumptions and the Red Hook Community Justice Center. Participants considered Reparative Care in their lives through photography and art therapy, making a pop-up photobook installation.

See you at the the ICP Photobook Fest. Come by the Gnomic booth to get your copy of Hard Times are Fighting Times!