MAUREEN CUMMINS

UPCOMING SYMPOSIUM

The Art of Photographic Bookmaking: Inspiration, Creation & Acquisition
(Special Guest)

Maureen Cummins has cranked presses from California to the Eastern Arctic and produced over 40 limited edition artist books. Known for work around social justice, her books are based on subject matter as diverse as slave narratives, the Salem Witch trials, turn of the century gay love letters, and records from McLean Hospital, the oldest mental hospital in the United States. As part of Swarthmore College’s Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project, she was one of five artists working with Syrian and Iraqi refugees to tell their stories. Cummins is represented in over one hundred permanent public collections and has received over a dozen grants and funded residencies, including a Pollock-Krasner award. She currently lives and works in Woodstock, NY.

LINKS TO HER WORK

• Maureen’s Website

• Central Booking: Maureen Cummins

• Bowdoin Special Collections & Archives - Beyond the Reading Room: Archives in the World with Book Artist Maureen Cummins

• Friends Peace & Sanctuary: Interview with Maureen Cummins

• The New York Times: More Than Art Books, The Books Are The Art.

• 23 Sandy: Maureen Cummins