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I greatly appreciate the work that A.R.T. is doing to make sure that public schools, libraries, and prisons are provided with books and materials that otherwise might be impossible to obtain... Reading can make you powerful, but let’s not forget that it can also open your mind to infinite pleasure.
— Martha Rosler, 2015 A.R.T. Honoree
"Reading has been a crucial part of my life from the time I was nine or ten. It was, and still is, an adventure into a different place or time. The novels of Jules Verne, Walter Scott, Alexander Dumas, but also an encyclopedia I read entry after entry. The pleasures of reading have always been connected to the physical qualities of the printed book.
The availabilty of printed books and teaching of reading/writing have been major parts of education, and that we should know how to read is often taken for granted. But there is little discussion of how those abilities are used.
Art Resources Transfer, and their Library Program, for which I am grateful, redistributes books and offers tools for how to use them. This results in the empowerment of the individual in the form of an encouraged, self-aware perception of the world. As soon as empowerment is introduced, the politics around the distribution of power becomes an indissoluble part of the educational process."
— Luis Camnitzer, 2022 A.R.T. Honoree
A.R.T.'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.
– Walid Raad, 2021 A.R.T. Honoree
We get many requests for art books and so few donations that pass through the prison censors' reviews. Thanks for all that you do! You are making a difference in people's lives.
– DC Books to Prisons, Washington DC, 2022
"Books are a central part of our collective’s unique practice. This is why it has been so important for us to partner with Art Resources Transfer. We carefully dissect books both physically and metaphorically."
— Studio K.O.S., 2020 A.R.T. Honoree
Thank you very much for the donation of beautiful art books. Your donation will help us answer many requests from inmates in NC and AL; books that are most needed in these difficult times.
– Prison Books Collective Volunteers, Durham NC, 2021
Books were my first experience of travel... Art Resources Transfer provides a sure route to adventure and the most likely way to future invention for many, perhaps for all of us.
— Roni Horn, 2018 A.R.T. Honoree
Art isn’t often considered an important facet of education in New Mexico. But art helps education; art is education. It’s our kids here that need this support the most. Art is a manifestation of community and culture. And the more we communicate and understand, the better we my hope to communicate and understand... It is only with the help of organizations like yours that we can obtain resources like these. It’s a beautiful gift.
— United ARTS Resource Library, Albuquerque NM, 2019
It is important to remember that while the powers that be can turn off the electric close access to machines etc
They cannot reduce the fact that books are found in corners crevaces & under beds despite the powers that be
Without books we probably would not have any freedom
— Lawrence Weiner, 2017 A.R.T. Honoree
Your donation is reaching a lot of people who work hard but may have had too much life going on to finish high school or go to college or who may feel uncomfortable visiting a traditional library or bookstore... Your donation did not add to our art section, it allowed us to START one. You have made a huge impact here both on me personally, my village and the surrounding communities. We thank you.
— Walking Books Library, East Dixfield ME, 2019
Books open up the world, making it accessible in ways it wouldn't otherwise be. A book is a journey to somewhere else.
— Glenn Ligon, 2016 A.R.T. Honoree
I greatly appreciate the work that A.R.T. is doing to make sure that public schools, libraries, and prisons are provided with books and materials that otherwise might be impossible to obtain... Reading can make you powerful, but let’s not forget that it can also open your mind to infinite pleasure.
— Martha Rosler, 2015 A.R.T. Honoree
"Reading has been a crucial part of my life from the time I was nine or ten. It was, and still is, an adventure into a different place or time. The novels of Jules Verne, Walter Scott, Alexander Dumas, but also an encyclopedia I read entry after entry. The pleasures of reading have always been connected to the physical qualities of the printed book.
The availabilty of printed books and teaching of reading/writing have been major parts of education, and that we should know how to read is often taken for granted. But there is little discussion of how those abilities are used.
Art Resources Transfer, and their Library Program, for which I am grateful, redistributes books and offers tools for how to use them. This results in the empowerment of the individual in the form of an encouraged, self-aware perception of the world. As soon as empowerment is introduced, the politics around the distribution of power becomes an indissoluble part of the educational process."
— Luis Camnitzer, 2022 A.R.T. Honoree
A.R.T.'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.
– Walid Raad, 2021 A.R.T. Honoree
We get many requests for art books and so few donations that pass through the prison censors' reviews. Thanks for all that you do! You are making a difference in people's lives.
– DC Books to Prisons, Washington DC, 2022
"Books are a central part of our collective’s unique practice. This is why it has been so important for us to partner with Art Resources Transfer. We carefully dissect books both physically and metaphorically."
— Studio K.O.S., 2020 A.R.T. Honoree
Thank you very much for the donation of beautiful art books. Your donation will help us answer many requests from inmates in NC and AL; books that are most needed in these difficult times.
– Prison Books Collective Volunteers, Durham NC, 2021
Books were my first experience of travel... Art Resources Transfer provides a sure route to adventure and the most likely way to future invention for many, perhaps for all of us.
— Roni Horn, 2018 A.R.T. Honoree
Art isn’t often considered an important facet of education in New Mexico. But art helps education; art is education. It’s our kids here that need this support the most. Art is a manifestation of community and culture. And the more we communicate and understand, the better we my hope to communicate and understand... It is only with the help of organizations like yours that we can obtain resources like these. It’s a beautiful gift.
— United ARTS Resource Library, Albuquerque NM, 2019
It is important to remember that while the powers that be can turn off the electric close access to machines etc
They cannot reduce the fact that books are found in corners crevaces & under beds despite the powers that be
Without books we probably would not have any freedom
— Lawrence Weiner, 2017 A.R.T. Honoree
Your donation is reaching a lot of people who work hard but may have had too much life going on to finish high school or go to college or who may feel uncomfortable visiting a traditional library or bookstore... Your donation did not add to our art section, it allowed us to START one. You have made a huge impact here both on me personally, my village and the surrounding communities. We thank you.
— Walking Books Library, East Dixfield ME, 2019
Books open up the world, making it accessible in ways it wouldn't otherwise be. A book is a journey to somewhere else.
— Glenn Ligon, 2016 A.R.T. Honoree
I greatly appreciate the work that A.R.T. is doing to make sure that public schools, libraries, and prisons are provided with books and materials that otherwise might be impossible to obtain... Reading can make you powerful, but let’s not forget that it can also open your mind to infinite pleasure.
— Martha Rosler, 2015 A.R.T. Honoree
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