Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined is a traveling exhibition featuring a collection of works inspired by passports and other travel documents. In 2025-2026 it will tour to San Francisco Center for the Book, Baylor University Libraries, Minnesota Center for the Book, and the Maier Museum of Art.
Forgeries is a set of three letterpress printed passport-like books that questions the production of authority to mark bodies, land, and papers as “real.” A repeating phrase in the text throughout—“I learned:”—prefaces stories that shaped how I came to understand, and sometimes unlearn, relations and histories of power.
Call a Wrecking Ball to Make a Window was included in this fantastic exhibition at the Getty Center Research Institute Galleries, curated by Pietro Rigolo. $3 Bill celebrates the contributions of LGBTQ+ artists… Continue reading
Here’s What Happened at the Library This Week is part of a long-term series of “tear-off books” sized to fit in a pants pocket, with perforated removable pages intended to be shared. The pages can start a conversation, or leave someone with something to think about, or do. A collaboration with Emily Drabinski.
Ground Rules builds on baseball team owners’ visions of empire and efforts to control playing conditions, umpires’ efforts to make and enforce rules to manage game-play, and cancer researchers’ forays into creating pathways for funding cancer care through a “war on cancer,” to examine fine lines between being in and out of control.
Park Factors is an accordion-fold book with a removable spine, letterpress printed text, and pressure print images. Together with Ground Rules, these books bring together archival research, writing, and image and form-making to examine unpredictability through stories from caring for my mother while she had lung cancer.
When I first met the folks at Booklyn, a long while ago, I felt like I’d found a home in an artists’ books world – they saw making and looking at artists’ books… Continue reading
Co-edited with historian Paula Austin, this special issue of Design and Culture brings together scholars, organizers, designers, and artists working across history and design to imagine what it looks like to design against… Continue reading
I am so excited to have been invited by Ama Codjoe, the 2023 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum, to contribute a broadside for the August series of events, The Poetic Line. I got… Continue reading
This article looks at the way questions drive possibilities in design through the lens of contemporary efforts in design to reform policing and incarceration and abolitionist organizing to end them. It asks how… Continue reading
