As a part of the Small Press Incubator Program, Center for Book Arts will be hosting a 4 part lecture series from each of the mentors from the program. This lecture is by Gee Wesley and will cover Marketing and Communication. There will also be lectures from Lindsay Buchman, Rachael Wilson, and Christina Long.
This virtual talk with Gee Wesley will be held over Zoom on October 29th, 2024, from 5:00PM to 6:30PM EST. If on mobile please scroll down to RSVP.
About Small Press Incubator
The Small Press Incubator Program is a unique opportunity for BIPOC individuals to learn and develop their skills in different aspects of the book-making system. Recognizing that the book arts have a long history of being used by marginalized artists looking for ways to showcase ideas without relying on the exclusive systems of conventional publication or gallery representation, the goal of this incubator is to provide a platform for poets to take their ideas for poetry publishing from abstraction to reality by providing participants with the skills, context, and community to start a small press. From conception to production and distribution, participants will receive support and guidance to bring their creative projects to fruition.
This lecture and the Small Press Incubator Program is generously supported by the Poetry Foundation.
About Gee Wesley
Gee Wesley is an arts organizer born in Monrovia, Liberia, and based in New York where he works as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art. Before joining MoMA, Wesley held roles as Program Director at Recess (Brooklyn, NY), Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter (Queens, NY), and Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA). Wesley has been adjunct faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Yale School of Art (New Haven, CT), and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY). He is a co-founder and board member of Ulises, a nonprofit art bookshop based in Philadelphia, and the founder of Afrophon’ a project dedicated to contemporary African artists’ books, art books, and independent art publishing through public programs, distribution, and an itinerant reading room. His work explores the relationship between publics and publications and how independent arts initiatives incubate new modes of curatorial and artistic practice. Wesley received his M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, at Bard College.
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