Artists-in-residence Barbara Bosworth and Emily Sheffer will give an artist talk at the Traverse Area District Library (also available live-streamed via Zoom) discussing their collaborative artistic practice in small edition handmade photography books, their work together over the last decade, and their current project in residence at Tusen Takk in September/October 2022.
The artists will have an exhibition of work on view in the Library, October 1-16. Please come and view their handmade books, even if you're not able to attend the artist talk!
Barbara Bosworth, Latourell Falls, 1993, Silver gelatin print, 10” x 24"
Artist Bios
Barbara Bosworth and Emily Sheffer have worked together for the past decade. In that time, they have collaborated on many projects, including several handmade photography books through the publishing imprint, Dust Collective. These titles include, From Where the Sun Now Stands (2020), Light of the Eclipse (2019), and Tide and Air (2019). These titles feature photography by Barbara Bosworth and book design and production by Emily Sheffer.
Barbara Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio, and along the shores of Lake Erie. She currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. Her publications include The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), and Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).
Emily Sheffer is a fine art photographer and book artist. In 2017, she founded Dust Collective, a handmade photography book collective, and has since published over a dozen titles. She earned her BFA in Photography with Departmental Honors from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in May of 2015. After graduation, Emily was listed as a 2015 LensCulture Top 50 Emerging Photographer. In 2019, Maine Media Workshops invited Emily to be their book-artist-in-residence. She currently works as a studio director in New England. Emily graduated in 2022 from The University of Hartford Photography MFA program, where she was awarded the Merit Scholarship.
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