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Semi-Quarterly report via photo dump. I became an uncle. Back and forth from Aus/NZ. I love my friends. I still suck at surfing. I like golf now. In 2nd grade we did a school play on Australia and I pretended to play a didgeridoo on stage while they played actual didgeridoo music over the speakers and now I wonder if I took part of a form of cultural appropriation as an 8 year old? Oh boy.😮‍💨

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We can’t wait for @printedmatter_artbookfairs this week! To showcase the work of our expansive artist community, we are excited to present a special Book-a-thon!

What is it and how does it work? Each hour, a CBA artist member or 2026 Artist in Resident will have space on CBA’s table to present their work. You’ll find many books made in CBA’s studios, works that exemplify the book as an art object, and artists who bring a diversity of perspectives, topics, and forms.

NYABF takes place from Sept 24 - 27, 2026, and the CBA Book-a-thon will be from Fri - Sun. Come find us and meet the Artist of the hour at Booth J1!

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Stolen cellphone

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Wrote up my visit to “Recalculating route…” at All Street Gallery back in May! Curated by Queenie Wu, the show featured works by six artists exploring spatial storytelling and themes of privacy, intimacy, documentation, choice, and collective action.

The works had components inside and outside the gallery. Ashton Reeder’s “Geospatial Encryption,” for example, had participants walk around the block, scanning four different tags to unlock a puzzle (leading to a poem which would reveal itself, two letters at a time, as more people visited the spots).

Works: “Geospatial Encryption” by Ashton Reeder, “on our way (home)” by Spencer Chang, “PUSH TO BE” by April Soetarman, “Find My Friend” by Queenie Wu, “Streets (New York City)” by Elizabeth Kezia Widjaja, “Active Scan” by Owen Trueblood

Full piece on phonetime.news 📍🗺️✨🧭

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Amongst other art news! I’m so delighted to be a CBA resident this year with the amazing and talented group of artists! (@arocha.tatiana @nneomanneomanneoma , @ashreeder and @lmao_gan_ma ) I’m going to be making a lot of art books and collaborating with so many friends and artists during my residency! Reach out if you’re interested in collaborating! Paper, folding and print! All of my passions folded into one! I have so many ideas!!! @centerforbookarts

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✨ Introducing our 2026 Artists-in-Residence! ✨

We are excited to welcome Tatiana Arocha (@arocha.tatiana), Nneoma Njoku (@nneomanneomanneoma), Ashton Reeder (@ashreeder), kathy wu (@lmao_gan_ma), and Sok Song (@origamisok) to Center for Book Arts this year. Our AIRs will spend six months with keyholder access to our studios, taking workshops with our instructors, and exploring the book as an art from. Next year, artists from our 2025 and 2026 cohorts will have the opportunity to present work in an exhibition in our galleries!

Please look out for more updates and news about ways to get to know these fantastic artists.

Image Descriptions:
1. 2026 AIRs
2. Huecos en la historia, 2025, Tatiana Arocha
3. Sueño con Jardines de Coca, 2025, Tatiana Arocha
4. River Monuments, 2025, Nneoma Njoku
5. A Condensed History of Africa, 2025, Nneoma Njoku
6. Atlas of Border Technology, 2025, Ashton Reeder
7. Dataveillance, 2023, Ashton Reeder
8. SMS (Soft Messaging Sarang), 2026, Sok Song
9. A GIFT OF LIGHT, 2026, Sok Song
10. Into uncertain weathers, 2025, kathy wu
11. Stope, 2025, kathy wu

This year’s residency program is receiving support from the National Endowment for the Arts (@neaarts). Additional funding is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul (@nyscouncilonthearts) and the New York State Legislature. Public funding is also provided by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council (@nyculture), and by our many generous individual members and donors.

#CenterForBookArts #ArtistInResidence #BookArts #2026AIR #ContemporaryArt #ArtistResidency

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Recalculating route… 🌐

Geospatial technology promised to make place more accessible, more searchable, more known. But the closer a place gets to being documented, traced, mapped, and surveilled, the further it moves from the people nearest to it.

This show asks not what it means to find something, but what meaning is made by already being somewhere.

Featuring:
Spencer Chang @spence.r.chang
Elizabeth Kezia Widjaja @ekezia
Ashton Reeder @ashreeder
April Soetarman @aprilsoetarman
Owen Trueblood @jmpinit
Queenie Wu @queeniwu

Opening May 7, 2026 @ 6pm
RSVP in bio

All Street Gallery, 119 Hester St. NYC
On view through May 11th

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a year of bad knees and good mems

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DtMD (I Should Have Made More Drawings) is an interactive installation about reconnecting with attention through drawing. Taking photos (and doing it for the ‘gram or the algorithm) has become a way of consuming reality: we capture what we don’t want to forget, but rarely pause to truly attend to it now. Drawing, on the other hand, slows us down and demands presence. That’s why I created a space for drawing the one subject that most often escapes our attention: ourselves. A self-portrait becomes a practice of attention and self-knowledge. From distraction to intention, we choose what to look at and what to ignore, until attention finally settles into stillness. We then become open, detached and ready for our essence to shine through.

This project began as a gift for Jujia-Li and grew into a cascade of drawings and self-portraits created by my classmates and instructors from @imalowres.nyu at @nyutisch I owe the spark and impulse of that first gift to Beth, the guidance during development to Craig, Patrick, and Ellen, and the technical (and at times emotional) support to @chrom.ii ✨, Shimmy, and Brian @bho_biscuit I’m also deeply grateful to my classmates, whose skills and generosity enriched the project in countless ways. Especially Alex @barbajohnz and Katie @arressai , who lent their voices to record the audio prompts, making the experience softer, more inviting, and human. The soothing drone music you hear in the background is also a piece made by Katie ☺️

I’m deeply grateful to everyone who playtested with me and took the time to sit, draw for four minutes, and press buttons that altered your image. It was a strange request, but you embraced it with patience and attention.

All the incredibly talented and inspiring fungis 🍄, C foods, dragonfruits 🐉 and edamames 🫛 thank you! @ameya.h264 @jwy.daphne @jingm1013 @shenxi_aix @ashreeder @helenanananabatman @queeniwu @saraybennett @chrissybrimmage @alainefarin @fabbrielettra @yunahk1m @itsnateeckman @yafan.sail @npmakesthings @yumedaaa @belabastosart @jeremypremium @cecilia0618 @carolinechu @chobanigreekyogurt @princessveyda

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my final project for ima summer 2025 session!
thank you to ashton and daphne for photos/videos 🩵💙🤍

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An assortment of webcam selfies, phone camera kid(s)napping, random pics and amazing fungis! 💜🍄

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just a bunch of fun guys 🍄

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