The A.R.T. Library Program has distributed 534,938 free art books to a growing network of 7,638 public schools, libraries, prisons, and reading centers nationwide.
Walid Raad’s work explores how historical events of physical and psychological violence affect bodies, minds, culture, and narrative.
"Literacy from the vantage of art prioritizes writing over reading, and artistic production as a process of creating forms over the appreciation of artworks. If we are good at fostering literacy from this point of view, we will prompt readers to shift from being consumers to authors. Books, like works of art, should be meeting places where power is not displayed but redistributed."
“The D.U.C’s commitment to books is not only a commitment to writers, makers, designers, and readers; and to the libraries that house, care, and lend books. But it is also a commitment to all margins (physical, social, economic, ideological, sexual, ethnic, cultural, spiritual, etc.) and to what is said and unsaid between lines and images.” (1)
A.R.T. is celebrating Camnitzer by distributing 25,000 free art books to 650 public libraries, schools, and prisons in his name.
