AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS

BOOKS / EDITIONS

TEXTBOOK INCLUSIONS

Type Tells Tales Steven Heller & Gail Anderson, Thames & Hudson; The Designer as: Author, Producer, Activist, Entrepreneur, Curator, and Collaborator Steven McCarthy, BIS; Writing For Visual Thinkers Andrea Marks, Peachpit and AIGA Design Press; A Short History of the Printed Word Chappel/Bringhurst, Hartley and Marks; No More Rules: Postmodern Design Rick Poynor Yale University Press; The Design Entrepreneur Heller and Talarico, Rockport Publishers; Guide to Graphic Design Scott Santoro, Pearson; Education of the Graphic Designer (2nd & 3rd Editions) Heller, Allworth Press; Introduction to Sociology W.W. Norton; Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes Richard Kostelanetz, Schirmer; Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design Ilic/Heller, North Light; American Typography: 24 Innovators Rob Carter, Van Nostrand Reinhold; The Century of Artists’ Books Johanna Drucker, Granary Books; The Designer as Entrepreneur Heller/Talarico, Rockport; The Structure of the Visual Book Keith Smith, Keith Smith Books; Typography Now; The Next Wave Rick Poynor, North Light Books; Ainda: O Livro Como Performance Amir Brito Cadôr, Museu de Art da Pampulha Press, Brazil; Looking Closer Bierut, Drenttel, Allworth Press; Education of the Design Entrepreneur Heller, Allworth; Postmodern Currents Lovejoy, Routledge; Making and Breaking the Grid Timothy Samar, Rockport (2nd Edition); Off the Shelf Murray, Writers & Books; Graphic Style Heller & Schwast, Watson Guptil; Thirty Centuries of Graphic Design Craig, Watson Guptil; Word and Image Meggs, Van Nostrand Reinhold; Text in Book Format Smith; Artists’ Books; a critical sourcebook Lyons, VSW/Pereguin; An Introduction to Design Robin Landa, Prentice-Hall; U.S. Design 1975-2000 Miller, Prestel Verlag/Denver Art Museum; Understanding Form And Function John Bowers, John Wiley & Sons; Digital Book: Design and Publishing Holleley, Clarellen/Graphic Arts Press; Graphic Design Solutions, Robin Landa, Thompson; Designing With Type, James Craig; Assorted AIGA, TDC and other annuals.

FEATURE ARTICLES & REVIEWS

The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Associated Press, American Book Review, American Quarterly, The New Yorker, Print Magazine, Eye Magazine, High Performance, Emigre, 26, Design Observer, Design Quarterly, Graphis, Visible Language, Image [&] Narrative, Designers and Books, Motionographer, The Bloomsbury Review, Largehearted Boy, Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, Small Press, Fine Print, Frieze, Bookworks, Umbrella,The Utne Reader, Views, Journal of Book Arts (JAB), Art in America, Afterimage, A.I.G.A Newsletter, Fiber Arts, Print Collector’s Newsletter, Fine Books and Collections, Oral History Review, Lightworks, Philadelphia City Paper, New York Daily News, Bangor Daily News, AM New York, The Brooklyn Rail, Journal News, Democrat and Chronicle, New Haven Advocate, City Limits, Huffington Post, Time Out NY, The Chronicle of Higher Education, kAk (Russia), The Guardian (UK), The Scotsman (Scotland), The London Stage (UK), The Hindu (India), Materialidades da Literatura (Brazil), Elet es Irodalam (Hungary), New York Law Review, Northwest Review, Minnesota Review, The Next American City, Intra Nation, The Forward, Jewish Week, New York Magazine, CNN, BBC, NBC, NY1, CUNY TV, National Public Radio & Public Radio International: All Things Considered, Studio 360, Tavis Smiley, The Next Big Thing, The World, Re-Sound; Public Radio and Community Radio programs stations around the country including The Faith Middleton Show, The Forum w_Michael Krasny KQED, Bookworm w_Michael Silverblatt KCRW, The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC, Word of Mouth WNHPR, Maine Things Considered, Air America, Democracy NOW!, Voice of America. . .

LECTURES/READINGS & PERFORMANCES

2013-2017
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Ko Festival, Amherst, MA; University of Houston; AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Annual Conference, Los Angeles; CBAA (College Book Art Association) Annual Conference, Nashville TN; AIGA (American Institute for Graphic Arts) National Conference, New Orleans LA; Keynote Speaker Book Art Biennial Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN; 2015 &Now Festival, Cal Arts, Valencia CA; Commencement Speaker Andrew Romay Center for New Immigrants, The Open Society Foundation, NYC NY; San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA; Central Booking Gallery, NYC NY; The University of Memphis, Rose Theater, Memphis TN; Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD), Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU), Saint Mary’s University (SMU), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; The University of Florida, Gainesville; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deere Isle, ME; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY; SUNY Brockport Writer’s Craft, Brockport, NY; University of Arizona, Tucson AZ; NYU Gallatin Division, NYC, NY; Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner Teatro SEA, NYC, NY; Bank Square Books, Mystic CT; Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn NY; GSA Summer Speaker Series, Blue Hill Maine; Center For Book Arts, NYC, NYU Bookstore, NYC NY; Keynote Speaker PS1 MoMA NY Art Book Fair Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, LIC, NY; Rutgers University, Newark, NJ; Roger Williams College, Bristol, RI; NYU Tish School of the Arts, New York, NY; LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, LIC, NY; Frederic Goudy Lecturer Scripps College, Claremont, CA; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Teton County Library, Jackson, WY; College Book Art Association Conference, Salt Lake City, UT; Queens Council on the Arts 3rd Space, Astoria, NY; Miami International Book Fair, Miami, FL; AIGA National Conference, Minneapolis MN; Book Passage Bookstore, Corte Modera, CA; Quintessential Queens Festival, LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College, Flushing, NY; The Booksmith Bookstore, San Francisco, CA; Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA; Art Center College, Pasadena, CA; Book Launch at WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, NY, NY; Art Institute of Boston, MA; SAIC, Chicago, IL.

2005-2012
Symphony Premiere Queens Symphony Orchestra, Colden Auditorium, Queens College, NY; New York Ethical Cultural Society, NY, NY; New York Institute of Technology, NY, NY; Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT; SUNY Oswego; Rutgers Newark, Newark, Jersey; Ohio State University, Columbus; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Nuyorican Poets Café; Keynote Speaker Morristown Third Annual Book Arts Series; Hurst Speaker/Scholar Weber State University, Ogden, Utah; University of Florida, Gainesville; I and Thou: The Book as Community-The 15th Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium, Rutgers University; 13th Street Theatre, NYC; CAA Conference, Los Angeles; Univerity of Tennessee, Knoxville; The Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa; AIGA Next (National) Conference, Denver, featured speaker; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; University of Memphis, Memphis; Keynote Speaker/Performer: National Association of Oral History Conference: Voices of Dissent, Voices of Hope, Providence, RI; Keynote Speaker/Performer Crossing Into Queens Conference, conference conceived around Crossing the BLVD project, Queens College; Festival of Cultural Exchange, Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland, Maine; The Alamo Theater, Bucksport, Maine; Laguardia Performing Arts Center, Mainstage Theater, Long Island City, NY; St. Lawrence University; National Lawyers Guild Annual Conference, New York, NY; SUNY Plattsburgh; St. Johns University, Jamaica, NY; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; Maine Center for the Arts, University of Maine at Orono; Exit Art, New York, NY; Landis Theatre, Riverside, California; University of Arizona, Tucson; SUNY New Paltz; Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD; Albright College, Reading PA;

2003-2004
Keynote Speaker/Performer Love and or/Terror Book Arts Conference, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson; Crossing the BLVD book launch, St. Marks Church in the Bowery; Miami Book Fair; Miami, Florida; New York is Book Country, New York, NY; New York University, Kimmel Center Theater, NY, NY; Fordham University, American Studies Program, Bronx, NY; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY; International Humanities & Arts Conference, Hawaii; New York State Writers Institute/SUNY Albany, NY; MIT, Cambridge, MA; Printed Matter Bookstore/Gallery, NY, NY; Barnes & Noble Bookstores, NYC, Brooklyn, Baltimore; The Bowery Poetry Club, NY, NY; Stonington Opera House, Stonington, ME; Blue Hill Bookstore Writers Series, Blue Hill, ME; KPFA, Pacifica Radio/Youth Radio, Berkley, CA; National Oral History Conference, Bethesda, MD; Regional Oral History Conference, Rutgers University, NJ; CUNY Honors College, University Scholars Program, NYC; Queens Theater in the Park, Immigrant Voices Series, Corona, NY; 20 exhibition tours, 6 performances, 2 panel discussions in conjunction with the Crossing the BLVD exhibition, Queens Museum of Art, Corona, NY, The Municipal Art Society of New York, Brendan Gill Award Ceremony; The Puffin Forum, Teaneck, NJ; Benefit for New Immigrant Community Empowerment Organization; American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York, NY; Queens Public Library, various branches; Atticus Books, New Haven, Connecticut; Readers Oasis, Tucson, Arizona; Second Read, Rockland, Maine; Innovative Archives Award Ceremony, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York, NY; Laguardia Performing Arts Center, Little Theater, LIC, New York; The Knitting Factory (various performances), New York, NY; The Club at La Mama (four different shows), New York, NY; University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (twice); The Designer As Author Symposium, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY; Art Center College of Design (twice), Pacadena, CA; College Art Association Conferences (various locations); University of Kansas, Hallmark Lecture Series, Lawrence, Kansas; Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA; Visual Arts + Writing Symposium;

1984-2002
Pratt Institute, New York, NY; Rhode Island School of Design (three times), Providence, RI; Yale University School of Art+Architecture, New Haven, CT; How We Learn, What We Learn, How We Teach, How We Learn: graphic design and education conference, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Mass; The University of the Arts, Philadelphia (four times), PA; Mills College, Oakland, CA; California College of Arts and Crafts (twice), Pacific Coast Book Arts Association, American Institute of Graphic Arts: Boston; Keynote Speaker/Performer Artists’ Book Conference, Philadelphia, PA; SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY; Memphis State University (twice), Tennessee; Neuberger Museum of Art (three times); Borders Books, (assorted locations); NYU, (several times), New York, NY; Tower Books, New York, NY; Brookline Booksmith, MA; Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, MA; San Francisco Book Fair, CA; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia; Boston Art Institute, Boston, MA; The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA; The Public Theater, New York, NY; Cornelia Street Cafe (several times), New York, NY; Barnes & Nobles (various locations); The Spotlight Cafe, New Hope, PA; The Left Bank Cafe, Blue Hill, MA; Haystack Mountain School (twice), Deere Isle, MA; Harvard Coop, Cambridge, MA; Rutgers University Baron Art Center, NJ; Clark University, Worcester, MA; Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY; Spring Festival of the Arts Skidmore College, NY; University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI; University of Massachussets at Dartmouth, MA, etc.

PLAYS/THEATER WORKS/OPERAS/SYMPHONIES 1980-2016

A Life In Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley developed as performance/reading with a Lab Theater Residency at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and performed at over 50 venues throughout the US beginning with a keynote presentation at The Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference at NY Art Book Fair PS1 MoMA; 1001 Voices: A Symphony for New America: collaboration with The Queens Symphony Orchestra, Judith Sloan and Frank London; premiered Colden Auditorium, Queens College; Crossing the BLVD: strangers, aliens in a new America (written and performed with Judith Sloan) at assorted venues around the United States, in South Africa, Mexico; A Tattle Tale: eyewitness in Mississippi (written with Judith Sloan) performed by Sloan at The Public Theater, NY; Blue Heron Theater @Here: La Mama ETC., NY; Cornelia Street Cafe, NY; The Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis; Gowanus Arts Exchange, Brooklyn; Puffin Cultural Center, Teaneck, etc. Denial of The Fittest (written with Judith Sloan), performed by Sloan at The Theater Workshop (Edinburgh Festival, Scotland); Here, NY; Oak Street Theater, Portland; One Dream Theater, NY; Jewish Museum, NY; Phoenix Theater, Indianapolis; The Whole K’Cufin World (written with Judith Sloan); Multiple Exposures; The Search for IT & Other Pronouns; French Fries (opera written with Harvey Goldman); Social Security: the basic training of Eugene Solomon (written with Dennis Bernstein); i mean you know; Ho The Day; The Guest Lecture; Willow Weep, Don’t, versations all performed in assorted venues.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum of Art, L.A County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The National Portrait Gallery-Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution, The Getty Museum, Walker Arts Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Boston Athenaeum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Georges Pompidou Centre, Tate Gallery, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, National Art Library (London), Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Switzerland), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Germany), Qatar National Library, Yale University Art of the Book Room, Harvard University Fine Arts Library, The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Jack Ginsberg Artist Book Archive (Johannesburgh), Jean Brown Archive, Franklin Furnace Archive, Groiler Club, The Potato Museum, etc.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

WORK

EDUCATION