Hamtramck gallery & studio tour

A last-minute post, because it's happening today, now, Saturday, between 1 and 6pm. Organized by Steve Panton of the gallery on Edwin Street and Public Pool, my studio is on the list of noteworthy stops.

Subjective cartography

That's the title for a lecture I'm giving tomorrow as part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies colloquium series: Designing Nations - Maps and Statistical Modeling in the Middle East" at the University of Michigan.

Come. There will be lots of pictures, including this one - these are all the settlements in the Jerusalem area.

another experiment

This time, it's a cutout of the entire Wall (from of the OCHA map from April 2007)

work in progress

I'm starting on some experiments in preparation for my new book (which I'm slightly freaking out over... there's just too many possibilities). The book will tentatively be called "Facts on the Ground" and will draw from maps of Palestine, including the ones I've been using since I found them at the UN OCHA in Jerusalem in 2006.

This is the Wall in Jerusalem.

books and more books

I'm still living off the high from my first artist book, I keep getting great feedback from people! Thanks people! Also, thanks to Bill and Vicky from Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, Access & Closure has made it into a few more exciting collections.

Harvard University, Fine Arts Library
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, Herron Art Library, Artist Book Collection
Wellesley College, Clapp Library, Special Collections
Williams College, Chapin Library, Special Collections

If you live near any of these places, check it out. Or if you live in the Detroit area, one of my favorite neighbors - gallerist, photographer, engineer, all-around-good-guy and perhaps soon-to-be-cat-owner Steve Panton has agreed to circulate a copy to interested parties.

In other news, I found out that I got another residency for book #2, this time at the Women's Studio Workshop in New York. This one will be a quasi-atlas of Palestine but I'm going to wait on sharing the details until I've got something to show for it. Til then, I'll post an excerpt from a legend of a 1941-42 Survey of Palestine that I photographed at the Map Library at University of Michigan. Does anyone know what lava would be doing in Palestine?

Palestine Revisited at the AC Institute

Tirtza Even and I have a show in New York, opens today at the AC Institute in Chelsea. It's up until May 1st. Here's the blurb:

Tirtza Even and Toby Millman each translate their experiences of personal encounters in Palestine in their collaborative exhibition, Palestine Revisited. The two projects, Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains by Tirtza Even and Access and Closure by Toby Millman each result from extensive stays in Palestine - on both sides of the borders dividing the occupied territories and Israel - during several periods spanning 1998 to 2008. These stays were translated into a body of visual and written material and include paper cutout maps, drawings, photographs, 3-D animations and video loops, as well as two individual book renderings of the same and expanded material.

The two records, in very distinct ways, aim to incorporate the images’ passage through media and through the history impacting their perception. Thus they utilize everyday experience and history to address signs of forceful partitioning and containment beginning with the 1948 war and leading to the current construction of the wall, and most recently, the continued violent assaults in Lebanon and Gaza.

Using text that reflects on and questions the coherence and perception of the visual material, incorporating both humor and nuanced prose, the exhibition attempts to address the characteristics and consequences of the ongoing Israeli occupation on life in Palestine.

Solos on the Oud -- Saadi Youssef

I printed this broadside as part of Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project. It's an edition of 25, 17 of which were donated to the project to raise funds to benefit Doctors Without Borders.

Access & Closure update!

Here's to my first post:

My book, Access & Closure: stories from in and out of an occupied Palestine, just got its very first review (and a good one if I don't say so myself)! It was reviewed by Clifton Meador in the Fall 2009 Journal of Artist's Books, published out of Columbia College's Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago. Download a copy of the review or better yet, subscribe to JAB!

If the review piques your interest, know that I still have copies left! These are the collections that have acquired the book to date:

Getty Research Institute.
Florida Atlantic University. Jaffe Center for Book Arts.
Indiana University. Fine Arts Library.
Multnomah Country Library. John Wilson Special Collections.
Oregon College of Art & Craft.
Reed College.
Ringling College of Art and Design.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection.
University of Chicago. Special Collections.
University of Miami. Richter Library Special Collections.
University of Michigan. Artists’ Books Collection. Art, Architecture and Engineering Library.
Yale University. Haas Arts Library Special Collections.