Miriam Schaer's Artist Books in Materiality and the Layered (eye)

When Roses Cease to Bloom

I am so pleased to be showing a number of book works in Materiality and the Layered (eye), with Phyllis Bramson, Aimee Beaubien, Douglas Stapleton and Sandra Perlow at the Evanston Art Center, curated by Marilyn Propp. The Opening reception will be Sunday April 24 from 1-4pm   Marilyn Propp will present a lecture, "The History of Collage as Social, Political, and Personal Expression" on Thursday evening, May 26, and there will be an artist'spanel discussion on Sunday, May 1.

Materiality and the Layered (eye)

Evanston Art Center

Opening reception: Sunday April 24, 1-4 pm 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201

Craft Power at Open Engagement Conference “Power” at the Oakland Museum of California

Ida Bakhturidze, Melissa Hilliard Potter, Miriam Schaer, Feminist Felt: Tusheti

Miriam Schaer will present Craft Power, her project about working with women from the Republic of Georgia, with her collaborator Melissa Hilliard Potter, on the panel Allies or Aliens: Collaborating Across Cultures, during Open Engagement:Power at the Oakland Museum of California. The conference theme is Power. Janet Goldner and Laura Anderson Barbata, will also be discussing their projects on the panel.

Open Engagement 2016 — POWER will take place April 29–May 1, 2016 at the Oakland Museum of California and additional sites throughout the Bay Area.

Allies or Aliens: Collaborating Across Cultures

April 30, 2016, 2:30pm  -  4:00pm, California Room — Level 1

You can get more information about the conference here

Hush, at the Uptown Arts Center

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Hush, installed at the Preston Bradley Center, The People's Church, in Worn Articles: Heard, Read, Remembered #wornArticles

Worn Articles: Heard, Read, Remembered, at Preston Bradley Center, The People's Church,  in Chicago, will be on view until October 25, 2015 #wornArticles

Artist book, Hush, created for Worn Articles: Heard, Read, Remembered

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A small take away containing the poem Hush, by Stan Pinkwas was created for Worn Articles: Heard, Read, Remembered at the Preston Bradley Center at the People's Church, 941 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60640. The exhibition on opens Saturday October 3, at 5 pm! Please come by-and get a book!

New Printwork to be shown in Now&Then, at Central Booking OffLIne Space in New York

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So pleased my new print work will be included in this exhibition-the work is still being selected! I'll post again when I know what will be shown. I sadly won't be a the opening, but will be at the closing on Sunday November 1 from 2-4.