Connect & Create: Lost Voices of Dissent and Remembering Through the Artist Book With Maryann Riker

Join Here and Now exhibition artist Maryann Riker for a hands-on workshop exploring the powerful history of artist books as tools of dissent, resistance, and remembrance. Participants will begin with a brief introduction to the evolution of artist books and their role in amplifying marginalized voices across time.

Using the flag book structure—a dynamic format that reveals layered imagery and text—participants will create their own artist book centered on themes of protest, memory, and social reflection. Through image and language, we will consider how artists use book forms to challenge dominant narratives and preserve untold stories. No experience necessary. All materials will be provided.

Space is limited to 12 participants. Please register in advance.

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Maryann Riker is a mixed-media artist whose collages and artist books convey a visual narrative relating to women's roles and historical events/societal issues relating to women at the turn of the century to now. Her work resides in many private and public collections such as Lafayette College, Newark Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art Feminist Art Institute. Www.justarippress.com

Connect & Create workshops offer a brief exploration and creative conversation around a work of art from the LUAG collection, followed by a hands-on activity and/or creative response led by a local teaching artist or student educator.