Art Reading Goals for 2024
I’m pre-selecting a curriculum of books that touch on the 4 pillars of my art career: Painting 🎨 Textiles 🧵 Community 🌈 and Care💛
Secondary themes I make work about include: Labor, Motherhood, Abstraction, Quilting and Materiality

Painting
Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner and O’keeffe
Everything She Touches by Chase
Agnes Martin and Me by Donald Woodman

Textile
A New Deal for Quilts
Women’s Work
All That She Carried
String, Felt, Thread; The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
The Subversive Stitch
The New Politics of the Handmade


Community/Legacy
Guidebook to Relative Strangers
Revolutionary Mothering
The Art of Gathering
My Grandmother’s Hands by Nenakem
Care
On Caring by Milton Mayeroff
Mother is a Verb
The Reproduction of Mothering
The Baby on the Fire Escape
Beyond the Studio Interview with Alex Paik

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