Artists in My Life in Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic published a lovely, thoughtful review of Margaret Randall's personal memoir of artists who have influenced her life. Reviewer Sarah Rose Sharp writes, "Artists in My Life dissolves the fourth wall between artist, art object, and viewer, offering a welcome approach to arts writing as an extension of how artists live." Full review here.

Artists in My Life in Daily Art

Candy Bedworth reviewed Artists in My Life in Daily Art magazine, writing, "Art, politics, and sense of place are all one for Randall. Her revolutionary life is well worth a look." Full review here.

Our congratulations to Robin Wall Kimmerer for being awarded a MacArthur grant for Indigenous ecological studies! Kimmerer is an accomplished scientist and writer whose portrait, profile, and her essay critiquing "Human Exceptionalism" are featured in Portraits of Earth Justice. Kimmerer's thought-provoking essay from the book was recently excerpted in LitHub.

Talking to the Girls reviewed by NYLHA

The New York Labor History Association (NYLHA) has published a most informative review of Talking to the Girls, coedited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti. Jane LaTour calls the book "a kaleidoscope of history that came to have a home within the hearts of these contributors." Full review here.

Trinity College, Hartford

Trinity College is hosting the conference Unmuting: Voice in Justice Impacted Art this Friday. Spoon Jackson, co-author of By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives and coeditor of The Book of Judith, will call in from a California state prison to a panel discussion with PEN America Prison and Justice Writing director Caits Meissner and others on what it means to "find voice" as a writer while incarcerated. A short video about The Book of Judith will also be previewed. More info here.

The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts Through Poetry honors the late Judith Tannenbaum and pays tribute to different aspects of Judith—poet, teaching artist, friend, mentor, colleague—through a collection of original poetry, prose, essay, illustration, and fiction from 33 contributors. In so doing, it echoes Judith's own determination to perceive contradiction without judgment. For the next generation of teaching artists in corrections and elsewhere, the book serves as an inspiration on the qualities needed to survive and thrive in a multi-faceted, ever-changing environment.

—Caits Meissner, writer and Director of Prison and Justice Writing, PEN America

Thomas College, Waterville, Maine

Portraits of Earth Justice author and artist Robert Shetterly will talk with local educators about enriching school curricula through the arts and unveil his newest portrait in the series. Film screening and more here.

 —Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children’s Trust

Napa County Library

To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, Napa Country Library is hosting Louise Dunlap to talk about her new book—Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind. Her talk, "Telling the Truth About Our Ancestors," will be followed by discussion. Register here.

—Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University Monterey Bay; author of Family History in Black and White

Museum of Art - DeLand

600 N. Woodland Blvd, DeLand, Florida

The show revisits the 1984 Artists Call, curated by Erina Duganne and Abigail Satinsky, and features the collective Reconstructed Codex from artist and author Sabra Moore's NYC Women’s Art Movement Collection at Barnard College.

Divining Chaos author Aviva Rahmani has been busy engaging virtually with academic communities! In September, she was a visiting speaker with the Department of Art at SUNY Buffalo (watch the recording here), and in October, she gave an artist talk at the University of Maine as part of their Art & Creative Ecologies series (watch here).