A.R.T. announces Julie Ault as its 2024 Artist Honoree.
A.R.T. is celebrating Julie Ault by distributing 25,000 free art books to 650 public libraries, schools, and prisons in her name.
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A.R.T. is celebrating Julie Ault by distributing 25,000 free art books to 650 public libraries, schools, and prisons in her name.
The A.R.T. Library Program has distributed 566,782 free art books to a growing network of 9,078 public schools, libraries, prisons, and reading centers nationwide.
Luis Camnitzer has insistently investigated art-making as a strategy of pedagogy while interrogating political relations such as those between periphery and center.
"The A.R.T. Library Program provided a much needed alternative platform to share socially and politically engaged ideas in the spaces that tend to be the most regulated."
"Big school districts like ours have very specific vendor protocols, so these are not books we would be able to purchase easily on our own."
"The books offered by A.R.T. expand the spectrum in which literacy might be defined, allowing individuals from our community to immerse themselves in a range of information, from purely visual to entirely literary. A.R.T.’s catalog reflects the diverse relationships our artists have with literacy in its various forms."
"How to perform a truth about traumatic and contested events such as those that go under the name of Lebanese Civil Wars? How to reconstruct a truth which has broken down into many fragmentary and contradictory splinters of archival evidence? ... Through performance and storytelling, Raad reveals how truth is neither definitive nor incontestable. He urges us to rethink what we understand as “the truth” and to reclaim the many other truths we might have neglected in its place."
A.R.T. Library Program Questionnaire gathers insights from librarians and publishers within the Program's distribution network to reconsider and reflect on what it means to make art books public today.
A.R.T. is celebrating Julie Ault by distributing 25,000 free art books to 650 public libraries, schools, and prisons in her name.
Since the beginning of the year, we have placed over 27,238 books in 578 public libraries, schools, prisons, and community reading centers across the country in the name of our 2023 honoree Rirkrit Tiravanija. We hope that you will again grant us your support and help us connect readers across barriers of difference and imagine better ways of being together.