Tucson Festival of Books

Arizona Book Artists and the National Museum of Women in the Arts


Located in the heart of Washington, DC, the National Museum of Women in the Arts advocates for better representation of women artists and serves as a vital center for thought leadership. In this session, meet four Arizona women artists to watch who incorporate book art into their practice.


Panelists
Heather Green

Heather Green is an visual artist, educator and associate professor of Book Arts at the Herberger Institute School of Art at Arizona State University. Her research examines encounters on a small headland in the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico....

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Daniella Napolitano

Daniella Napolitano is a visual artist and art educator. Inspired by nature and ecology, her art explores the diverse and complex relationships between animals, humans, and the environment. Her current body of work focuses on animals commonly seen throughout the Sonoran Desert....

Elizabeth Pineda

Originally from Mexico City, Elizabeth Z. Pineda is a photographic emerging artist based in Surprise, Arizona.  Her work explores complicated issues regarding immigration, identity, displacement, and migrant deaths that occur in the Arizona desert....

Laura Russell

Laura Russell is a photographer and book artist creating hand-bound, limited-edition artist books. Her work captures the vernacular—hand-painted signs, weathered storefronts, cultural artifacts—to tell stories about our culture and our communities....

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