Amy will be going on tour this fall.
August 27 - preview event: "What Would Leonardo Do?" talk at IBM in Armonk, NY -- noon - 1pm
September 13 - Brooklyn Book Festival -- 2pm booksigning at the Hol Art Books table
September 16 - Robin's Books/Moonstone Arts Center in Philadelphia, PA -- 7pm
September 18 - New Dominion in Charlottesville, VA -- noon
September 20 - McIntyre's Books in Fearrington Village, Pittsboro, NC -- 2pm
September 23 - Joseph Beth in Charlotte, NC -- 7pm
September 26 - Andalusia Farm (the Flannery O'Connor Foundation) in Milledgeville, GA -- 10:30am
September 28 - The Little Professor in Birmingham, AL -- 5pm
October 1 - Davis Kidd Booksellers in Memphis, TN - 11am -- reading and craft project at children's story hour
October 1 - Memphis Brooks Museum of Art -- 6pm
October 5 - North Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) Conference in Washington, D.C. -- 11am booksigning
October 6 - The Op Ed Project in New York -- visiting to give away a copy of Museum Legs -- 8pm (check out their website for future workshops!)
October 25 - Green Apple Books in San Francisco, CA -- 4pm
October 27 - Authors@Google Program in Mountain View, CA -- 11.30am
October 29 - Clark College in Vancouver, WA - guest teacher in Carrie Bader's Healthy Cooking
October 31 - Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, WA -- 4pm (the debut of the Museum Legs Halloween costume)
November 1 - Village Books in Bellingham, WA -- 4pm
November 4 - Seattle Art Museum at 7pm -- speaking to docents
November 11 - McNally Jackson in New York -- Museum Legs is the featured book of the Art & Beauty reading group hosted by Adjua
November 15 - Tumbleweed Bookstore & Cafe in Gardiner, Montana -- a reading and art project in the late afternoon
November 18 - Tattered Cover in Denver, CO -- 7.30pm in the LoDo location
November 24 - Macalester College in St. Paul, MN -- 5pm at the Art Gallery
December 2 - The LIT - Cleveland's Literary Center -- 7pm, jointly sponsored with Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry in Cleveland Heights, OH
December 4 - The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh -- 7pm
Check back in for more dates soon. . .
To have her speak at your bookstore, museum, university, or corporate headquarters, email museumlegs@holartbooks.com.
Sample talks:
- Entrepreneurship as an Art Form (what art and economics have to do with each other; looking at lives of the artists and lives of the entrepreneurs; art is a process and economics is a set of tools for many different kinds of creative activity in the world; based on a course I taught at Williams last January of the same title)
- Conference Room (looking at the built environment as though one might make a work of art about it, identifying visual thinking, imagination, and creativity in office life; includes showing slides of some artworks of this ilk (e.g., Michael Craig Martin) and some unintimidating drawing activities)
- Creative-Public-Commercial (many arts organizations begin as creative projects, reach public scale, and then have to resist inertia toward commercialization. This talk points out this relationship across stories of institutions and of artists.)
- Business School for Artists (an irreverent, clear crash course in business theory, not so much how-to's of personal accounting as an introduction to ways people are taught to think and consider problems in relation to the known structure of capital markets; taken from lectures given to painters at the Slade in 2004 and previously published as an art book)
- Art School for Business People (a lively introduction to art; the talk begins with "how do you make it?" showing artists at work, writers at desks, office workers in front of spreadsheets and culminates in a five-minute history of art; taken from a lecture given at Marakon Consultants as part of teaching a painting workshop to the firm's entire London office)
- Museums as Art Projects (a lecture on the history of modern art museums including the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, the Barnes Collection, and the Clark Art Institute, among others; many of the founders were entrepreneurs with surprisingly divergent or bold visions)
- Curating Chocolate (tasting a lot of high-end chocolate and considering how to present it as an "exhibition"; looking at how people are introduced to material verbally or analytically when the material (chocolate) is even more experiential than art)
- The Economic Life of Artists (how people make creative work in relation to a market economy; including many historical examples, based in part on career advisory talks at the Slade in 2008)
- Lifelong Creativity (reading Women in Fancy Sweatshirts from Museum Legs and talking about life as a work of art, using examples of the choreographer Merce Cunningham, creatively inventive into his 90s, and others)