About the Event

Join us for a special virtual event, in which exhibition curator Maymanah Farhat and Elizabeth Ajunwa, director of NMWA’s Library and Research Center, share behind-the-scenes insights about A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making.

The exhibition examines the organization’s rich history as a proponent of book arts for marginalized communities in the U.S., where documentation and critical analysis in the field are still largely devoted to white male artists. Through artists’ books, zines, printed materials, ephemera, and archival materials, A Radical Alteration shows how Women’s Studio Workshop’s policies, programming, and operations have evolved over the last fifty years, creating a space where the conditions of art-making and institutional support help to build a sustainable and more equitable art ecosystem.

About the Curator

Maymanah Farhat is an award-winning curator, writer, and university lecturer specializing in underrepresented artists and forgotten art scenes. She has curated exhibitions for museums, nonprofits, and university galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Tacoma Art Museum (Washington), Bainbridge Island Museum (Washington), Minnesota Museum of American Art, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco Center for Book Arts, The Gallery at VCUarts Qatar, and the Beirut Exhibition Center (Lebanon). Her publications include a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century (2023). Farhat is currently a lecturer at California State University, Fresno.

About Women’s Studio Workshop

Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW) is a visual arts organization based in Kingston, New York. Since 1974, WSW has brought more than 5,000 artists from around the globe to work in printmaking, hand papermaking, letterpress printing, photography, book arts, and ceramics. More than 6,500 Ulster County youth have participated in the workshop’s Art-in-Education program. WSW’s Artist’s Book Grant program has published more than 245 artists’ books, collected by major libraries and museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, and the Library of Congress, among others.

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