Poetry is Not a Luxury Exhibition Catalog
Take home the catalog for Poetry is Not a Luxury, a powerful exhibition on view at Minnesota Center for Book Arts from March 18-May 14, 2022, which is titled after poet Audre Lorde’s 1977 essay on creativity and activism. This edition of the catalog features letterpress-printed covers and an essay, On Refusal, by curator Maymanah Farhat. This essay brings the exhibition into our current moment while also looking at the origins of Poetry Is Not a Luxury, which was previously on view at the Center for Book Arts in 2019 and the San Francisco Center for the Book in 2020.
Featured artists:
Lamia Abukhadra*, Aurora De Armendi with Adriana Mendez Rodenas, Zeina Barakeh, Janine Biunno, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Joyce Dallal, Nancy Genn, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Brenda Louie, Nancy Morejon with Ronaldo Estevez Jordan and Marciel Ruiz, Katherine Ng, Miné Okubo, Galilee Peaches*, Martha Rosler, Zeinab Saab, Jacqueline Reem Salloum, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Andrea Shaker*, Jana Sim, Sable Elyse Smith, Patricia Tavenner, Christine Wong Yap, and Helen Zughaib.
*indicates Minnesota-based artist
Take home the catalog for Poetry is Not a Luxury, a powerful exhibition on view at Minnesota Center for Book Arts from March 18-May 14, 2022, which is titled after poet Audre Lorde’s 1977 essay on creativity and activism. This edition of the catalog features letterpress-printed covers and an essay, On Refusal, by curator Maymanah Farhat. This essay brings the exhibition into our current moment while also looking at the origins of Poetry Is Not a Luxury, which was previously on view at the Center for Book Arts in 2019 and the San Francisco Center for the Book in 2020.
Featured artists:
Lamia Abukhadra*, Aurora De Armendi with Adriana Mendez Rodenas, Zeina Barakeh, Janine Biunno, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Joyce Dallal, Nancy Genn, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Brenda Louie, Nancy Morejon with Ronaldo Estevez Jordan and Marciel Ruiz, Katherine Ng, Miné Okubo, Galilee Peaches*, Martha Rosler, Zeinab Saab, Jacqueline Reem Salloum, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Andrea Shaker*, Jana Sim, Sable Elyse Smith, Patricia Tavenner, Christine Wong Yap, and Helen Zughaib.
*indicates Minnesota-based artist
Take home the catalog for Poetry is Not a Luxury, a powerful exhibition on view at Minnesota Center for Book Arts from March 18-May 14, 2022, which is titled after poet Audre Lorde’s 1977 essay on creativity and activism. This edition of the catalog features letterpress-printed covers and an essay, On Refusal, by curator Maymanah Farhat. This essay brings the exhibition into our current moment while also looking at the origins of Poetry Is Not a Luxury, which was previously on view at the Center for Book Arts in 2019 and the San Francisco Center for the Book in 2020.
Featured artists:
Lamia Abukhadra*, Aurora De Armendi with Adriana Mendez Rodenas, Zeina Barakeh, Janine Biunno, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Joyce Dallal, Nancy Genn, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Brenda Louie, Nancy Morejon with Ronaldo Estevez Jordan and Marciel Ruiz, Katherine Ng, Miné Okubo, Galilee Peaches*, Martha Rosler, Zeinab Saab, Jacqueline Reem Salloum, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Andrea Shaker*, Jana Sim, Sable Elyse Smith, Patricia Tavenner, Christine Wong Yap, and Helen Zughaib.
*indicates Minnesota-based artist
