BRASS IN POCKET: available now from Booklyn

BRASS IN POCKET, the feminist collaborative exhibition zine, is out now! We debuted the zine this weekend at Comic Arts Brooklyn + it is now available online on buy.booklyn.org

Including artwork by:

CAROLINE PAQUITA, CATHERINE STACK, CRISTINE BRACHE, CYNTHIA SCHEMMER, DAFY HAGAI, ERIN BOWERS, GEOFFREY DUNCANSON, HANNAH SCHULMAN, JASON ROY, JEN MAY, JESSICA MEANY, KATE WADKINS, LAUREN DENITZIO, LIZ LINDEN, LYNNETTE MIRANDA, MINA BOROMAND, MITSUKO BROOKS, RACHEL WOLF, REBECCA CLARKE, REGINA JESTROW, SONIA CORINA, SONYA DERMAN, SUSAN FANG, AND TAMARA WAITE-SANTIBANEZ. [view on tumblr]

FEMINIST ZINE-MAKING PARTY @ BOOKLYN: SUNDAY 10/13

Aimee made this excellent GIF of the flyer I designed.

brassinpocket-booklyn:

If you are in New York, please join us this Sunday, October 13th from 1-5pm at Booklyn for coffee & donuts & a feminist zine-making party! Booklyn has tons of paper, feel free to bring your own materials as well: old magazines, markers, ink, etc. We will be creating pieces for the BRASS IN POCKET zine: 

Curators Aimee Lusty and Kate Wadkins seek submissions for a feminist art zine to be released at the close of BRASS IN POCKET, a group show opening Friday, September 13, 2013 at Booklyn Artists Alliance. For the full call for submissions, please click here.

BRASS IN POCKET runs through October 27 at Booklyn Artists Alliance art gallery. 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions and RSVP to katewadkins[at]gmail.com if you can make it to our gathering at Booklyn this Sunday.

BRASS IN POCKET: Installation views

Over 400 people joined us for the opening of BRASS IN POCKET at Greenpoint Gallery Night last week, what a wonderful turnout! We're posting updates over at brassinpocket-booklyn.tumblr.com, where we'll be rolling out photos of each artist's work as well as updates on the zine. Thanks to Hyperallergic for including us in their guide to Greenpoint Gallery Night as well as their recap!

"Feminism is taking over Booklyn, and we couldn’t approve more..."

BRASS IN POCKET OPENS TONIGHT @ BOOKLYN

BRASS IN POCKET

curated by Aimee Lusty + Kate Wadkins

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2013

OPENING TONIGHT, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 6-10PM

coinciding with Greenpoint Gallery Night.

Susan Fang

Liz Linden

Lynnette Miranda

Caroline Paquita

Catherine Stack

Tamara Waite-Santibanez

The Booklyn Art Gallery is pleased to present BRASS IN POCKET, a group exhibition featuring work by Susan Fang, Liz Linden, Lynnette Miranda, Caroline Paquita, Catherine Stack, and Tamara Waite-Santibanez, and Book Swap… a collaborative project by Liz Linden and Jen Kennedy.

We approached this show with the desire to represent contemporary feminist artists working in different media with the commonality of transcending subject matter and traditional techniques in print, collage, drawing and sculpture. Instead, BRASS IN POCKET is a group of New York-based women artists who are doing just that, but whose work may not necessarily be described as “feminist art.”

What we discovered through this process is that it is less of a “feminist” concern to narrowly define this work as “feminist art.” It is more important to bring the work, the pushing of boundaries and mediums, to light. Throughout our studio visits feminist themes emerged. While often not the forefront of the artist’s subject matter, each artist still faces a sexist power structure within the art world, and within her everyday life... [read more]

Curated by Aimee Lusty & Kate Wadkins. For more information please contact aimee@booklyn.org

Gallery Hours: Thursday-Tuesday, 12pm-5pm.

FOR FULL PRESS RELEASE + EVENT PAGE, CLICK HERE

OR RSVP ON FACEBOOK IF YOU LIKE

+ HYPERALLERGIC'S GREENPOINT GALLERY NIGHT GUIDE + MAP

In addition to the exhibition, Aimee and I are soliciting contributions to a feminist art zine, to be published at the closing of BRASS IN POCKET. Deadline for submissions is October 13th, for more info visit us at brassinpocket-booklyn.tumblr.com.

E.S.P. FEMINIST ART SHOW --> ON VIEW THROUGH WEDS. 7/10

Some installation shots from the E.S.P. show have surfaced on Facebook. The show is up through Wednesday, July 10th. All additional info can be found here.

COMBATING LATENT INEQUALITY TOGETHER

6 days from now, Combating Latent Inequality Together Fest will begin in New Brunswick, New Jersey. I am happy to announce my own involvement with this majorly exciting event. I curated Friday night's zine reading, featuring Julia B. of People of Color Zine Project; Rachel Levy and Sari of Hoax Zine; Cristy C. Road, author and artist; and my long-time collaborator Jamie Varriale Vélez of Rock and the Single Girl. I will also be participating in two workshops: "ART LABOR: A Discussion of Art Practice, Presence, Preservation and Perseverance" and "Winging It: Nurturing Authentic Communication in Feminist Organizing" with For the Birds.

I am so grateful that C.L.I.T. Fest is happening in the Metropolitan Area this summer. All of the organizers have already done a phenomenal job, but I am particularly proud of my sister, Jess, for her immense growth as an activist and artist in the past year. I feel lucky to be organizing alongside her.

You live and you fight, or you die. In this "once-in-a-lifetime" podcast, the C.L.I.T. Fest team not only addresses the intricacies of organizing the event, but why these conversations are so important, why support is vital in our communities. I highly recommend giving it a listen.

Details after the jump--