Anthea Black
Session 4 (3rd week): Wednesday August 1 - Tuesday, August 17
Anthea Black is a Canadian artist, art publisher, and writer based in Oakland and Toronto. Her studio practice focuses on print media and publishing to address queer feminism, collaboration, and the tensions between visual representation, embodied experience, and abstraction. Black’s recent exhibitions include Loosely Assembled, SBC Gallery, Montreal; HARDCORE EINDHOVEN, Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands; Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Publishing Against the Grain, touring through Independent Curators International. Her artist’s publications include the newspaper The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism and HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education, a queer and trans pedagogy project that took form as a collaborative letterpress book. Her book The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design (Bloomsbury Visual Arts), co-edited with Nicole Burisch, features new thinking in critical craft theory. A 2021 Fellowship Artist at KALA Art Institute, she is an Assistant Professor of Printmedia, Craft, and Graduate Fine Arts at California College of the Arts.
1] HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education, 112 colour pages with gatefold letterpress cover on Mohawk carnival yellow paper, edited by Anthea Black and Shamina Chherawala, printed by Nick Shick, Anthea Black, and Queer Publishing Project. Edition of 1,200 copies. 6 x 9 inches. 2018; and Keep Queering the Syllabus, 16-page zine with hand-stitched binding and limited edition letterpress bookmark on Mohawk carnival yellow paper. Commissioned by The Pedagogical Impulse, University of Toronto. 7.5 x 4.5 inches, 2019.
2] Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread, The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism, artist newspaper, 24-pages, edition of 1,500 copies. 11x17 inches, 2018-2020.
3] The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design, edited by Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch, Bloomsbury Press, 2020.