Lehrer is awarded a 2025 NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) Individual Artist Support Grant to complete the book LETTER BOX: The Geometry of Loss, a collaboration with former NY Times reporter Rick Black. The grant of $10,000 was submitted through City Lore. Written by Black, visualized by Lehrer, LETTER BOX addresses how a person can deal with personal loss, feel the bottomless pain, yet manage to move on. The sparse prose—which consists of only a few words per page—is choreographed for the page through a typographic setting that gives form to the interior, emotional and metaphorical underpinnings of Black’s words. Together, the writing and visuals create a distinctively cinematic book experience. To be published in 2026.