you’ve fallen in love with books before; now it’s time to devour one.

join us for local artist lisa huffaker’s workshop, TAKE THIS BOOK AND WRECK IT: book demolition, from erasure to contraband, as we send librarians’ eyebrows through the roof, transforming books through radical acts of art. we’ll alter individual pages through poetic erasure, collage, drawing, and folded inclusions, and carve deep into the text block to imbed talismanic objects into the body of the book. prepare to revel in the smell of vintage volumes, feast on carefully chosen paper ephemera, and reimagine the very meaning of this wondrous object we call a book.

designed for ages 18+, this workshop is free to attend! capacity is limited — registration required, donations encouraged.

about the artist
lisa huffaker creates poetry, collage, and assemblage. she is a frequent visiting artist at the nasher sculpture center, a recent c3 visiting artist at the dallas museum of art, and current teaching artist in residence at the writer's garret. she is the creator of white rock zine machine, a micropublishing project offering artist’s books through sculptural vending machines. her poetry appears in 32 poems, spillway, southwest review, the boiler, able muse, and elsewhere. her installation, code room, is currently on view at ro2 art. she is currently working on a book, transforming an anti-feminist 1963 marriage manual through erasure and collage. the manuscript was recently featured at tu delft and cornell tech’s 3rd workshop on obfuscation, and excerpts are forthcoming in diode and thrush.

this program has been selected in association with dallas contemporary’s artist-led programs initiative.