Artist’s Book Publishing

As the Director of Women’s Studio Workshop’s publishing imprint from 2017 to 2024, I oversaw the production and publication of 27 artist’s book titles. Here, I’ve highlighted four books and included links to virtual events and articles for further exploration. At the bottom of this page, you’ll find a complete list of all 27 titles.

Parts of a Body house Book by Carolee Schneemann, 2020

Parts of a Body House Book was originally published in 1972 by Beau Geste Press, which was run by Felipe Ehrenberg in Devon, England. This reprinting is a facsimile of Carolee’s personal copy from the first edition. Her intentions were to paint the back cover of each book and create a new set of hand interventions for the present day. This publication was in production at the time of her death in 2019. All hand interventions including corrections, stamping, staining, drawing, and highlighting were recreated to the artist’s exact wishes. Each copy in this edition is signed by Carolee’s beloved feline, La Niña, using a pigment mixed from beet juice and dirt gathered from the grounds of Carolee’s eighteenth century farmhouse in New Paltz, NY. 

This book includes the first publishing of an excerpt from Schneemann’s Sexual Parameters Chart, Americana I Ching Apple Pie, film positives from two of Carolee’s films, notes and sketches on Kinetic Painting, a very special menstrual-blood-blotted paper work, and more. 

In the exhibition catalog for her retrospective Kinetic Painting, Schneemann writes, “Parts of a Body House Book (1972) is a prototype for my big book. Each element in this edition was culled from mounds of related material. It is a releasing of the recent past into the present. A unitary life view – all about the same thing… and I can’t say what IT IS. But see it, live it.”

Virtual Book Releases:
Women’s Studio Workshop: https://vimeo.com/448546083
Carolee Schneemann Foundation:  https://youtu.be/SaPxtTWNqb4?si=EZK00xmzWCPGspBm

Catalog Listing:
https://wsworkshop.org/collection/parts-of-a-body-house-book/

Press:
1. https://hyperallergic.com/627221/carolee-schneeman-parts-of-a-body-house-book/
2. https://brooklynrail.org/2021/05/art_books/Carolee-Schneemanns-Parts-of-a-Body-House-Book/

where are we now by Kyung Eun You, 2018

where are we now is based on the artist’s memories in the aftermath of her mother’s passing in Los Angeles in 2009. Her family had immigrated from Korea a few years before. Images in the book depict moments in her struggle with grief, depression, and her father’s alcohol abuse. Repeated imagery reflect the recurrence of events – how the artist dealt with the frequency of her dad’s alcoholic behaviors; and the cyclical return of the memories after moving away from home.

Full Catalog Listing:
https://wsworkshop.org/collection/where-are-we-now/

11033 by Ibe’ bulinda crawley

11033 is the artist’s meditation on the feelings and experiences of Mary Morst, a black woman in the Virginia State Penitentiary in 1921. Imprisoned behind the black bars of the book’s cover, 11033 centers Mary’s complex life and shares her story as an imprisoned murderer and the mother of twin children born ‘behind bars.’ This sculptural artist’s book incorporates embedded copies of archival documents, including newspaper clippings, letters, and pardon applications alongside a fictional text woven poetically throughout the historical narrative. 

The inspiration for this project grew from IBe’ Crawley’s research into the untold stories of women and girls impacted by oppressive Virginia laws and continued enslavement. Unlike most black women and girls, Mary Morst’s story is recorded because of her relationship to the penal system. IBe’ Crawley conducted research at Virginia State Library, where all the prison records for Morst are publically available. 

11033 is constructed using handmade flax and abaca paper, with shaped pages that present the silhouette of a pregnant body. The textblock incorporates a central clay figure providing structural support for the book to stand upright, mirroring the enclosure of a prison cell.

Full Catalog Listing:
https://wsworkshop.org/collection/11033/

Virtual Book Release:
https://vimeo.com/676295252

list of artist’s book projects produced at WSW during my leadership:

The Pause Apothecary, 2025 (Forthcoming) by Macon Reed
Karlin in Bed, 2024 by Ruthe Karlin
gender liberators, 2025 (Forthcoming) by Sky Syzygy
erebid/materia, 2023 by Michelle A M Miller
The Song of the Bestiary, 2023 by Corinne Teed
Golden Lotus, 2022 by Colette Fu
Touching My Shadow, 2022 by Alayna Ho
11033, 2022 by IBe' Bulinda Crawley
She Feels Your Absence Deeply, 2022 by Golnar Adili
we used to move through the city like doves in the wind, 2021 by Celeste Hernandez
A Brief People’s Art History of Southeast Queens, 2021 by Damali Abrams
Still Not Free, by Maya Beverly
The Cards We Were Dealt, 2021 by Kingston High School Senior Art Seminar Students
we must be very strong/and love each other/in order to go on living, 2021 by Sonia Louis Davis
Parts of a Body House Book, 2020 by Carolee Schneemann
Go Inside, 2020 by Sara Quinn
Ul'nigid', 2020 by Rhiannon Skye Tafoya
Calling All Denizens, 2019 by Kimi Hanauer 
Paper Paper Film, 2019 by Imin Yeh
The Sun is Shining but I Don’t Trust It, 2019 by Kat Horvat
where are we now, 2018 by Kyung Eun You
What’s Left, 2018 by Tracey Bullington
The Veil is Seen Only When It is Lifted, 2018 by Carlotta Origoni
Dress Code Strictly Enforced, 2018 by Tona Wilson
Studies for Studies, 2017 by Catrin Morgan