Louis
Place
Artist publishing 101: choose your own adventure
with Rachel Valinsky and Steffani Jemison
Saturday, March 22 - 2pm ET
What you’ll learn
Editor and publisher Rachel Valinsky and aLP co-founder Steffani Jemison provide a comprehensive introduction to publishing for beginners.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- common publishing timelines for visual artists, from drafting to post-publication
- an introduction to key collaborators in most publishing projects
- publishing vocabulary for newbies, so you can sound like a pro as you head to print
The goal of this session? To boost your confidence as you navigate the next steps in your journey to publication.
About Rachel Valinsky
Image description: A black and white, grainy headshot of Rachel, looking knowingly into the camera while standing in front of what seems to be a gated city park. She wears a cozy knit jacket, hoop earrings, and her hair falls just below her shoulders.
Rachel Valinsky is a writer, editor, and translator based in New York. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Wendy’s Subway, a nonprofit arts and literary reading room, writing space, and independent publisher, and Director of Publications at the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances. She was a Curatorial Fellow at The Kitchen, an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Queens Museum, Friday Night Reading Series Co-Curator at the Poetry Project, art writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre, and an art critic-in-residence at CUE Art Foundation/Art 21 Magazine. Her writing on performance, dance, and moving image work has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, frieze, e-flux criticism, and elsewhere, and her translations have appeared from Semiotext(e), Editions Lutanie, Pluto Books, and Editions 1989. Rachel holds an MPhil in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and teaches courses in art history, performance studies, art writing, and critical thinking at The New School.
About Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison is an interdisciplinary artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York whose work explores such questions as: How do we move? How are we moved by each other? In dialogue with interlocutors (living and ancestral), her work connects mark-making, gesture, proposal, projection, movement, and document.
Jemison has presented solo exhibitions and commissioned performances at JOAN Los Angeles, Greene Naftali, Mass MoCA, Jeu de Paume, CAPC Bordeaux, the Museum of Modern Art, LAXART, and other venues. Her work has been included in significant generational exhibitions, including Greater New York 2021 and the Whitney Biennial 2019, and is part of many public collections, including the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Jemison’s novella A Rock, A River, A Street was published by Primary Information in 2022; she has also written for Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail. Jemison is a co-founder of the writing community at Louis Place and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts.