Presentations & Exhibitions
April 1 – 2, 2023: Other Islands Art Book Fair, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
July 15 – 17th, 2022: Brooklyn Art Book Fair, Amant, Brooklyn, NY
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
August 21 & 22, 2021: Cincinnati Art Book Fair, CAMPsite Sculpture Park, Cincinnati, OH
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
December 14 & 15, 2019: Cincinnati Art Book Fair, Carnegie Art Gallery, Covington, KY
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
April 19 – June 1, 2019: “Lil’ Radicals: Multicultural & Social Justice Publications for Kids in the 21st Century,” Booklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
— exhibited Poor Means Us: The History, Legacy, and Continuing Importance of Martin Luther King Jr’s Poor People’s Campaig (8.5 x 6 inches, saddle-stitched), written, designed, and illustrated with students enrolled in Applied Graphic Design (ARTS 4375)
December 1, 2018: Paper Jam: An Alternative Book Fair, Alfred R. Goldstein Library, Ringling College of Art + Design
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
November 22–29, 2018: Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
September 6 – 9, 2018: London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
July 7, 2018: The Sixteenth International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
— paper presented: “Academic Micro- publishing, Critical Graphic Design, and the Contingent Nature of Contemporary Knowledge Production”
November 11, 2017: Portland Book Festival, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
February 15 – 18, 2017: College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, NY;
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
March 30– April 1, 2016: Oso Bay XIX Design Symposium & Juried Show, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, TX;
— exhibited design work in faculty – student invitational exhibition
February 3 – 6, 2016: College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Washington DC;
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
February 11 – 14, 2015: College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, NY;
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
February 13 – 16, 2014: College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL;
— exhibited Are Not Books & Publications (see arenotbooks.com and “Ongoing Research Projects,” below, for more information)
June 18, 2012 – April 30, 2013: Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket, and Journal Awards Show;
— art direction and design work included in a national touring exhibition
Other Conference Presentations
June 15 – 18, 2017: Biennial Conference of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA), Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA.
— session chaired: “Early Modern Sources for Contemporary Evangelical Spirituality and Artistic Production”
— paper presented: “Visual ‘Panentheism’ in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice: Looking for a Poetics of Pietism in New Materialism, Neo- Animism, and Object- Oriented Ontology”
July 14 – 17, 2015: Annual Meeting of the Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy (YSBA), Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK.
— presented “The Pilgrim in the Labyrinth: Auto- Didactic Interiority in the Publications of John Bunyan and John Amos Comenius,” a paper and artist’s publication project
Ongoing Research Projects
2010 – Present: Are Not Books & Publications (arenotbooks.com)
— This micropublisher is a practice- based inquiry into publishing as critical graphic design. Authors published include Dennis P. Doordan, PhD; Paul O. Bischoff, PhD; Aaron Fine, MFA; Lucas Korte, MFA; and artist Joseph G. Cruz.
June, 2017 – Present: Far–Near Books( far- near.org ):
— This micropublishing imprint is designed as an inquiry into (1) an expansive, ecumenical, historically- informed evangelicalism; and (2) non- verbal (visual, affective) theological knowledge production.
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