Archiving as Artistic Practice featuring Jamie Goldenberg

Artist Jamie Goldenberg will be in conversation with Simon's Rock Librarian KellyAnne McGuire. Goldenberg and McGuire, also a fiber artist, will discuss process-based artmaking, the impulse to keep records, and how creativity is essential to our experience as human beings. This is the closing event of Goldenberg's exhibit Material Record, a collection of woven, stitched, and dyed works that was featured in the Hillman-Jackson Gallery from March 8 to April 17, 2024.

Jamie Goldenberg has spent most of her life in New England. She received a BA in photography and critical theory in visual arts from Bard College at Simon's Rock. She was a 2015-16 resident at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY, instructor at Parson's School of Design, and has attended residencies at Penland School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She currently owns a craft shop and classroom in Great Barrington, MA where she aims to make artmaking as accessible as possible to anyone who wants to learn and create.

This event is free and open to the public.